This is the method I use to soul travel and communicate with my spirit guides, I think I’ve only done the lower world and maybe the upper and a little of the middle world. Idk I just listened to my spirit guide and animal. I really enjoy this method as it’s unique to the individual. I have two world trees one is a cherry blossom tree I used to grow up swinging on and playing with my siblings, and the other tree is actually in the same back yards, its a very tall oak tree and that we had a tire swing on and where we buried two of our dead pets. One of the Pet’s name was Sam, he was a bottom feeder fish and lived for about 8 years, I cried when he died. Usually I didn’t cry over fish but I did when this one died. Anyways, the fish embodied wisdom and his job was to clean the tank and he would even make sure the other fish didn’t bully each other, I would watch him all the time growing up, he usually didnt move much but I was super compelled by his energy.
My first stuffed animal was actually named Sam as well, he was a seal from the California Monterey Aquarium, I nicknamed him FLOP. I played pretend with him every night. I would often make all my stuffed animals fight, Sam was often slick, ninja like and more. Before I got into deep level magick I did a technique to discover my spirit guide, I asked “Spirit guide, what’s your name?” I got back “SAM” I was a little let down, Sam seemed like a insignificant name for a spirit guide, I went back to deep cleaning my room, then I found him. SAM, I found the stuffed animal and all the memories came rushing back. It was probably one of my first true magickal moments I had (I had others before but they were repressed until I got into deeper magick).
My first Shamanic journeys my spirit guides were bird from what I remember, but I distinctly remember going through a portal and it had a lot of gnostic and deep imaginative Christian archetypes (remember my family is Christian). If you’ve ever read C.S. Lewis the place reminded me of the heaven or space before existence.
- The Magician’s Nephew
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- The Horse and His Boy
- Prince Caspian
- The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
- The Silver Chair
- The Last Battle
If you are interested in Biblical or anything similar to it, I highly recommend you read The Chronicles of Narnia, I would say read “The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe” first then go back to the magicians nephew and then read the horse and his boy. That’s the order I read them in and it was really deep, I haven’t read the other books but the 3 I read were really deep and meaningful. Way deeper than any Church I had gone too.
I say that to say in the Magician’s Nephew the tree is supposed to be the tree of life, power, and knowledge. The witch steals from the tree and leaves, but later Aslan (Jesus/Christ/God) deals with this. But it’s interesting as the portal to the magickal land is built out of this same tree. Also it’s important to note, when you enter Narnia time moves way faster there. You can come back from Narnia and lived a whole lifetime, but in the normal world only a few seconds have passed.
I learned a lot from Lady Eva, we do not follow the same God AT ALL and but I learned a lot from her posts. Especially those concerning “theogensis” - or becoming a living God. I offer a different method, and I would say some of the most powerful lessons I ever learned came from doing my own will rather than what Lady Eva recommended. I say that to say, you may have a spiritual mentor who you look up to, nearly worship, or love. But ultimately it is your life so decide what to do for your life.
I hope you have fun on your astral journey, I haven’t been on one in awhile but I will be going on some soon, make sure you take notes on what happens.
When I went on one of my first journey’s I ate fruit of the certain archetypal trees and it taught me a lot. I also was initiated by 4 different element dragons on another journey.
Nowadays I have a astral temple set up with both trees there, so I access them in that way. I’ll make a guide on how to create and astral temple later.
