There are many forms of negative emotions within the human: we are born with an inbred survival mode of fight-flight and the autonomic nervous system ensures we react real quickly and run even faster! Nonetheless, in this day, this age, many carry fears, guilt, envy, jealousy, feelings like this. Some are from this life, and perhaps, some we have carried over from a past life. To take up our inherent god-strength within and live fully human-fully alive, we can take steps to discard emotions and reactions that don’t lead to our growth, our inner freedom. In Part 2 of this series, we examine symbols to eliminate negative emotions.
Symbols to Use to Eliminate Negative Emotions
Anger
Anger is one of the most destructive emotions, not only to the person being shaken like a rag doll in its grip, but to those who happen to be the unfortunate butt of its assault, and even to those who are unwilling spectators.
We asked for a symbol to help people to relinquish their anger and we were shown an image of a person who had swallowed a dragon which, imprisoned within, periodically writhes and spews out fire from frustration.
Anger stems directly from some block to the personal will or personal desire, so it is necessary first to investigate the type of incident which typically triggers anger in a person so that he has a better understanding of why anger has occurred. If it has been picked up as a habit from a parent, it can be relinquished at the time of cutting the ties to the parents. If it is the weapon wielded by a person with a strong will, then that behaviour must be looked at realistically so that the will of the ego may be given over and that of our Higher Consciousness (High C) sought instead.
Anger which is repressed is even more destructive. It is invariably unconscious and can erupt suddenly without warning. This condition is often the result of very strict parental control, where a child was never allowed to express anger and had literally to swallow it. In such cases anger can cause many kinds of physical ailments.
Yet another cause stems from the opposite situation, where the parents were too lenient and mistakenly showed their love for the child by allowing him to express anger whenever his wishes were not fulfilled, believing it to be harmful to deny him lest he interpret it as lack of love. That angry child is often very much alive in angry people and must be given the appropriate discipline by the person himself to replace that which the parents incorrectly administered or omitted.
When everything possible has been done to eradicate anger, such as voluntarily detaching from the personal unfulfilled desires, we give two different exercises which may help the person to release the core of the anger. In the first, the anger is described as a fiery dragon, which must be visualized as living within the person and ready to erupt whenever his personal will or desire are thwarted in any way. To get rid of this fiery beast, we guide the person to vomit it out and immediately kill it as soon as it is out in the light with a spear or sword plunged into its heart, in much the same way we deal with the dragon symbolising the negative mother archetype. Killing the fiery dragon of anger is easier, because it is a personal and thus smaller monster. As soon as the monster has been killed and the carcass disposed of in whatever way is indicated, a small, smiling beatific cherub or some other personal symbol selected by the person must replace it. The cherub or other symbol represents a new start.
We have found that there are always a few people for whom this technique does not work. We asked to be given another symbol for them and were shown that some of these had brought anger over with them from a past life, but in a strange way. The creatures representing anger in this group were not dragons but mostly of the cat family: wild cats such as lions, tigers, or leopards. These did not symbolise anger springing from blocked desire like the dragon, but were linked to survival and connected to panic, rape, loss of life, danger and other crises. This anger occurs on a purely instinctive level and the victims are not conscious of why they have it; they are simply helpless in the grip of it. In some cases, they were attacked by a wild animal in a past life and were so frightened that their fear opened them up to identification with the animal that was attacking them. In some of these cases the people had been Christians sacrificed to the wild animals in Roman arenas as entertainment for the people. We were shown that these animals were not only starved for a time preceding each performance, but were teased and injured in order to make them mad with anger. The energy thus provoked was violent, aggressive and overpowering and it also induced in the participants strong sexual excitement as they identified with the strong masculine energy overcoming the weaker victims. Those in the crowd watching the display also derived a sadistic pleasure from seeing the helpless victims torn apart. Thousands of onlookers opened themselves up to this animal anger and, by reacting to it, have brought it over with them into later lives as have those whose job it was to torment the animals to arouse their anger.
Thus these fearful people have within them, instead of the symbols of the domestic instincts represented by the dog and cat, the wild attacking animals with which they had at one time been identified.
We were shown that other victims opened up in a different way. These were so frightened and in such physical and mental agony, that they tried to escape from their bodies and the pain being inflicted on them, craving a quick death which was preferable to present torment. They withdrew from the body as much as possible in an attempt to hasten death and escape from fear and pain and created a vacuum into which the fierce animal anger poured, bringing about a strange type of animal possession. Had they called on the God Force in the attacking animals, they might have been left unharmed like the Biblical characters Daniel and Abednego. If they had called on Christ or Jehovah, they would have been helped to separate just enough from the body so that they felt no pain or fear, and yet were attached enough until death occurred naturally. To help these people, we were told to lure the animal of anger out of them by calling on the God Force in the animal. This calmed it and brought it slinking out, obedient to its own higher will.
We have also come across people who were attacked by an animal, usually a dog, during their present childhood. The shock and fear at such a sudden attack made them want to escape the body, which allowed the dog to invade them. In such cases, it is often preferable to take the person back to the actual scene, with his own High C or authority figure as support, comforter, healer of the old trauma, and to ask the person to speak to the God Force within the animal instructing it to emerge from the victim. We were also shown that children who are taken to a circus or a zoo when they are still too young to understand can be overcome by the sight of some of the angry caged animals and invaded by them in a similar way.
Whenever we are shown a new method we always open it up for any others who have this same problem, and who are ready to be released, and we find that we will have several people with a similar problem in the same week.
Greed
Most of the negative emotions have as their basis greed, which is the essence of attachment to the desires of the ego, expressed as ‘me’ and ‘mine’. Greed also usurps the place of the High C as it gives an illusion of security in tangible objects. Since these are not lasting, they never completely satisfy or fulfil, but breed insecurity, the very condition they are relied upon to eliminate. Because greed is the foundation of most negative emotions and therefore affects both personal situations and world problems, we have found that it is one of the most difficult to exterminate. We have been given many techniques to loosen its hold, because since it is often deeply entrenched within the very structure of a person, it has to be attacked from all sides. Some of these techniques have been mentioned in the appropriate contexts. We needed a more comprehensive symbol like those for anger and fear so we asked for this during a session.
We were shown a grotesque picture of a head with a huge gaping mouth, and a ring of outstretched and grasping hands sticking out all around the neck like a collar or necklace. There appeared to be no body except for what looked like a tapeworm attached to the head and leading down into a storage place in the subconscious. We were shown that, like the tapeworm, greed lives inside its host, devouring everything it can get hold of but leaving the host completely unsatis?ed and always hungry for more. Thus it creates a vicious circle which must be broken if the host is to be free of such negative infestation. The head, tapeworm and storehouse, must be cut out and destroyed by fire or some other appropriate means, as indicated by the High C. The space it occupied inside the person must then be filled with light or some other replacement, as directed, to insure that it will not recur. The storehouse needs to be looked at very carefully to determine the types of things which bring out the greed in each person so that he can consciously release their hold on him.
Teaching Pictures
A large collection of ‘teaching pictures’ has accumulated over the years from the working sessions. I will include a sampling of these as they are so universal in their appeal and application. Often we will be shown a picture or scene, as if in a play, to illustrate a point or give insight into a situation or personal problem for ourselves or someone for whom we are working and later discover that it is equally applicable for others with similar problems. In this way, each person’s problem can help other people, linking them all in an invisible partnership of giving and receiving. Sometimes merely being shown one of these pictures gives sufficient insight and understanding for the person to be able to change his actions and affect his situation accordingly. Often when we are shown what to do to change ourselves or our attitudes, we have the choice of continuing in the same pattern or correcting it ourselves.
Tape-measure and Snake
When I first started to work in this way, I became aware that my conscious mind would often get in the way so I asked what I could do to prevent this. I immediately saw, on my right side, a spring tape-measure symbolizing my mind, always busy measuring everything I saw. I was directed to pull it out as far as possible and then release it so that it sprang back into its case with a sharp click. This became a preliminary exercise for me before trying to make contact with my subconscious mind and it worked so well that we have often given it to others who have experienced the same difficulty.
A little later I realised that not only was my mind a problem while I worked in this way, but that my emotions would often intrude and block the flow of images or teachings. So, again, I asked to be shown what to do to put them temporarily at rest. This time I saw a tree with a snake hanging over one branch with its head towards the earth. The snake was a symbol for my emotions and I was directed to wind it very gently until it was coiled into a spiral along the branch of the tree with its tail in its mouth, completely contained. I realised as I used it that this picture was perfect; as the tree symboliszed the impersonal self with the snake safely coiled up in its branches so there could be no further intrusion by my emotions to block the flow of images which could then be evaluated impersonally.
The Knotty Pine Fence
During one session, the inner picture was of a high knotty pine fence, on each side of which was a wise looking owl. One of the owls reminded me of a Methodist minister with whom I was working while the other one looked like a psychologist who was also working with me. Neither could see the other over the high fence separating them, but I saw that if one of the knots in the fence at their head level was pushed out they would be able to see one another through this small space. I was then shown that the hole symbolised this work through which the minister could look at the psychological aspects and the psychologist the spiritual ones instead of concentrating only on their own viewpoint.
The Swinging Door
Another picture along the same lines was of a swinging door between the Eastern and Western philosophies. The swinging door symbolised this way of working which is a synthesis of the two philosophies. In this work, those who are primarily Western in their attitudes and beliefs are exposed to Eastern methods, and vice versa, so that eventually the two may meet and see that they have many common bonds.
The Two Clocks
My friend and I were working with another married couple, she with the wife and I with the husband. The couple’s problem was that sometimes they were in perfect rhythm with each other and at other times they seemed to be out of step. They were anxious to find a way to be more harmonious all the time. This appears to be a universal wish, so we asked to be shown anything which could help.
We saw two clocks of the type having a pendulum swinging back and forth inside a glass case. When we first saw this picture, the pendulums were moving back and forth at the same rate but, very gradually, we observed a barely perceptible change as one of the pendulums seemed to be moving ahead of the other. After a while, as we watched, this became more obvious until their rhythms were far apart. However, this did not last and we saw that they started to move back towards a closer rhythm until they again appeared to be in perfect synchrony.
We were then shown that no two people are exactly alike and that it is impossible and unrealistic to expect that they can always be in perfect agreement. Neither is it advisable for one of the partners to force the other to assume his rhythm or to try to achieve the same as his partner, in either case, forcing one or the other to be untrue to himself. When both of them align their wills to that of the High C, each can ?nd his own rhythm and accept the distance between them when it occurs, thus protecting each one’s individuality.
The Two Snakes
A woman who had been married a long time to a man who was quite a challenge to her was shown a picture of two snakes writhing together on the ground. At first she thought they were engaged in a mating embrace but, to her surprise, she saw that, as they interacted, each one was gradually losing its skin. Later she read that it is indeed a fact that snakes help one another to remove their old tight skins in this way when they have outgrown them. She realised that some of the struggles between her and her husband would actually achieve this same purpose if they could but relax and allow it to happen.
The Tulip and the Chrysanthemum
At another time, when we were working for another couple, we were shown that each could be likened to a plant. One was like a tulip and the other a chrysanthemum. We could easily see that deep within each of us is our true pattern or seed of the person into whom we should develop. However, these inner potentials often fail to develop freely and normally. There are many different factors involved: each plant needs to be planted in the right type of soil, in shade or full sunlight, or filtered light, and each has individual water and food and fertiliser requirements. People, like plants, thrive when all of these requirements are met but, in most cases, certain adjustments have to be made. In the case of the couple for whom we were working, the two partners obviously had very different needs and would be faced with the necessity of a great deal of adjustment if their marriage was to be a fulfilling relationship.
Dog and Cat
At one time, near the beginning of our partnership, my friend and I were working with a married couple, she with the wife and I with the husband. The man was so withdrawn that I was at a loss to know how to help him to open up even enough to tell me his problems. So, the next time my friend and I worked together, I asked to be shown anything which would help me to work with him.
Immediately a vivid picture ofa wide and rapidly flowing stream flashed onto my inner screen. I saw that a tree trunk had fallen across it, forming a bridge, in the middle of which crouched a cat which was obviously terrified as it watched the fast-moving water so close beneath it. It was far too frightened to continue on across to the safety of the opposite bank, but equally afraid to retrace its steps and return to the side from which it had come. So there it was, as if glued to the tree trunk, paralysed and unable to make a move in either direction. Then I caught sight of a boisterous cocker spaniel as it leapt into the stream and started to swim over towards the tree, splashing water all over the poor cat as it approached. This caused the cat to freeze even more as it clung desperately to its precarious perch.
I realised that this was a perfect picture of this couple and their individual attitudes to life. The wife was an outgoing, enthusiastic and demonstrative puppy dog-type of woman who romped through life, while her husband was a typical introverted cat-like man too scared to enter the stream of life. Then we realised that this metaphor could be applied to many people and, from then on, we always tried to determine which people were more like dogs and which ones were more cat-like. We found that this made it a great deal easier to understand how to handle each one.
Shortly after this, one of my own cats illustrated this point even further. She strayed out of the house and up into the hills, presumably so frightened at the unfamiliar outside world that she was scared to return home, even to eat, and would not let any of us approach her. It took several days of the utmost patience to entice her back with a bowl of food which, at first, I placed quite far from the house, but, each day, gradually brought it in closer until she was coming to eat at the back door. Finally I was able to reach down and pick her up. At first she fought from fright but a few strokes behind her ears relaxed her so that she could accept being home again.
When working with extremely introverted people, it is often necessary to proceed cautiously, offering small quantities of help and encouragement until their confidence has been won and their fears decreased.
The division of people into dogs and cats is also very helpful in daily life when meeting various types of people, as it presents a quick way of deciding how to relate to them. Cat-like people respond best when approached gently and slowly, and really prefer to be allowed to make the first overture themselves. They cannot be overwhelmed with attention and affection or taken unawares. On the other hand, dog-like people love to be hugged and often will make the first move as they also love to lavish affection on those they love as well as to receive it.
Naturally, a person is more balanced if he is able to alternate between these two extremes, depending on those with whom he is interacting. We have had several Siamese cats who are in many ways quite like dogs; so they have come to symbolise the middle way; neither too extroverted nor disproportionately introverted.
The Three Mountains
One time when we were working I had an inner experience which illustrated for me the balancing of the two functions of intellect and emotion. I was aware that in my inner scene I was jumping back and forth between two large mountains. As I landed on one, I saw that it was composed of hard sharp rocks and crags on which I could be cut and bruised if I stayed for too long a time; so I quickly jumped back onto the other one. I then discovered that this one was covered with deep snow into which I could sink and be smothered if I remained on it too long. So back I jumped again to the craggy one, and so on, back and forth between them. I began to get very tired and asked the meaning of this experience. I was shown that the craggy mountain symbolised the intellect and the snow-covered one the emotions, and that I had been alternating between these two ways of handling situations.
I was then directed to look between these two mountains and, as I did, I saw to my surprise that there was a third mountain which I had not even suspected was there. It was not as high as the other two and, when I asked what it symbolised I received the answer that it represented a state of knowing, neither solely feeling nor entirely thinking, but in which both operated together. I was also shown that the third mountain was composed of the dead bodies of all my released desires, desires that certain things occur as well as that other things not occur. As I looked at it more closely, it reminded me of a coral reef which is composed of the skeletons of the tiny sea creature known as a coral polyp. This mountain was beautifully green and dotted with hundreds of lovely little wild flowers and, as soon as I was willing to land on it instead of continuing to jump back and forth between the other two, I discovered that it continued to grow higher and higher as I let go of my desires. Eventually I saw it could reach the Sun, which is a symbol in our work of the God Force, and that I could then merge in union with it and be released from the constant pull of the pairs of opposites which keep us chained to the earth scene.
The Human Dog on a Leash
A friend of mine, who lives at a distance, calls from time to time to ask for help with whatever is troubling her. On one of these occasions, she told me that several weeks earlier her boss had promised her a different and much more interesting position in the large organization in which they both worked. He had made no further mention of it so she had called his office a few times to find out what was happening as she was becoming frustrated by the continued uncertainty. She told me that he had not returned her calls which frustrated her even more. She was now asking if we would check to see if there might be more she could do. During a session in which we were working for others, I saw my friend on the inner screen and noticed that she seemed to be holding in one hand what looked like a long dog leash on which she was tugging impatiently. I followed it to see where it led and saw a man on the other end instead of a dog and every time she pulled on the leash, his attention was jerked away from whatever he was doing and I could see that he was becoming very nervous and irritated. I was then shown that she must drop this imaginary leash and give it over to her own High C, releasing it entirely and asking to be shown what to do next. She did this faithfully each day and reported back a little later that the man had called her and, in the friendliest manner, had said he was sorry for the delay but was now ready to discuss a proposal with her.
We have been given many more symbols and pictures during the years of work with this method and still more are being discovered as new people participate in the work. I have described examples for speci?c needs and problems to point the way to further discoveries by those who will be attracted to this type of work. Once again, I must stress that it is important to remember that the symbols themselves are not magic wands but tools which must be used daily, in a disciplined fashion, to impress the subconscious mind with the need for new patterns of thought, feeling and behaviour.
Yin Yang
A very helpful symbol for balancing the male and female aspects in a person of either sex is the ancient Chinese symbol Yin Yang. In order to use it the person is instructed to imagine or visualize standing astride the symbol as if it were drawn on the ground, with the left foot over the white dot in the dark side, and the right foot on the dark spot on the light side, concentrating on seeking a balance between the two within himself.
Afterword:
These symbols have been in use since ages. They have been given by the Higher Consciousness of all humans. They are accessed by millions daily, and used multiple times daily. You will understand that these symbols are robust, strong and effective when utilised as given above. They are not frivolous imaginings, they are given to help people manage their lives, come to self-awareness and master the mind. The mind is the servant, who takes notice of and absorbs the higher energy – frequency – vibration of these symbols. They are the gateway to the higher dimensions, the 5th and up.
