Consulting the Dead Part 2
this strip is loosely based on a rashi commentary on the book of Deuteronomy.
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this strip is loosely based on a rashi commentary on the book of Deuteronomy.
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Prohibition. I don’t know about other religions but Judaism severely prohibits calling upon dead people, as stated in the bible (Deuteronomy), and specifically repeating systematically a person’s name in order to call upon. For a spiritual sensitive person this is a fairly easy task.
Graves. There are specific graves where is permissible to visit and try to speak with the spirit, requesting interference on specific issues, and this happens all the time here in Jerusalem. The grave of the “Ohr Ha Chaim” and “Rav Shimon bar Yochai” are frequently visited.
Possessions. There are abundant and frequent stories of unwanted spirits that possesses unprotected bodies. Happens somewhat often, I heard a case last month in Brazil. The flew the possessed fellow here.
There is no prohibition, however to read a book written by a master you admire to follow his steps. This is a mild way of invocation, very permissible, even recommended, depending of the character. Again, I will remind, this is not book reading. This is invocation. The person exists inside of you and you are trying to evoke him or her.
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Definition. Invocation is such a wide subject, I could easily create a blog just for that. For the meanwhile I am going to stick to the book, and then perhaps develop a bit.
To invoke means to “CALL IN” or “CALL UPON”, when used in meditation, invocation is a technique with which you can summon any type of energy quality come to you. It could be just love, or beauty.
Close your eyes and relax deeply. Do some type of preparatory meditation such as grounding and running energy, or opening the energy centers, or symply going to your sanctuary, relaxing and breathing deeply for a while.
When you feel relaxed and energized, say to yourself I call upon the quality of LOVE and then, feel the “energy” of love coming to you.
Very poetic, Shakti. Very abstract too, it could all be imagination, after all we want to call upon something external.
You can use the power of invocation to summon any quality or energy you want or need.
I posted this to base myself on the book, it is far from practical, yet it will be useful as we go further on….
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