The River of Time – The Discovery
An Exploration of the Unseen World
Shamanic journeying is a form of meditation that is filled with metaphors that only we are to interpret. The River of Time appeared in one of my journeys and has led me on many adventures. Here is the story of my first encounter and the adventure it took me on.
Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and Founder of the Deeper Song Community is a cosmic explorer who consciously travels into the unseen world to serve as a bridge to help us expand our relationship with the spiritual world. She shares what she learns and guides us to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.
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The River of Time – The Discovery
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The River of Time – The Discovery
An Exploration of the Unseen World
I was on a shamanic journey and I had a very powerful healing experience that opened up great opportunity to return and do more deep healing and discovery. I want to share that experience with you.
I have returned a few times to this healing place and each time more has been released. I am not clear what has been cleared and cleanses, I simply know that it has.
Granted, each metaphor in a shamanic journey is for us to interpret, but this is a powerful concept that I know will guide you into an amazing experience.
I’m Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and founder of the Deeper Song Community. I am a cosmic explorer who consciously travels into the unseen world to serve as a bridge to help us expand our relationship with the spiritual world. I share what I learn and guide those who are ready to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.
Thank you for being a part of this journey.
In this episode of Reflections of a Deeper Song I shay my Discovery of The River of Time.
Shaming journeying is a form of mediation. We go to our Sacred Garden, which represents aspects of us, and are given metaphors as messages that only we are to interpret.
The message of the River of Time is for all of us.
It’s always a powerful experience when we learn to release an unknown blockage – an unknown belief.
And because you do not know the specifics, you lean to trust – trust the process – trust the healing – trust that the necessary blockages and beliefs will be released – and trust your interpretation of the metaphors.
You become very observant of the sublet changes that manifest from this experience of releasing.
This particular journey does all of that.
I did not know this was a healing journey until it simply was. I don’t ever remember my intention but it turns out this journey was about releasing and clearing and clearing. Here was my experience.
I went into the meditate state of a Shamanic Journey.
I found myself by a river. It was flowing from my left to my right. It was not deep. It was clear and I could see the smooth water-worn rocks beneath the gently moving water. I stepped into the shadow part of the river. Immediately I saw dark colors move out through the bottom of my feet. I felt nothing, no emotion, no sense of release, I just saw it go. Something was leaving me, something no longer wanted or needed. I mentally reached out through the bottom of my feet and content with Gaia, earth, the molten cleansing core, and brought that powerful energy to help continue the exodus of whatever was leaving my body through the soles of my feet, streaming into the shallow water. I stood there for a long while. The black color I was releasing though my feet became grey, and then a more smoky in color.
Still standing in the shallow water, I opened myself up to my Soul Star. Immediately powerful energy came in through my crown and gradually moved from my head through my body and out my feet, Again clearing and cleansing and releasing as it went. I did not know what it was clearing out I simply stood there and accepting that release of what was no longer needed in m life and in my body..
Then I was moved to sit down in the water, up to my neck, my arms around me knees. Immediately more blackness came out of the right side of my body ,being carted away by the water that was flowing from my left to my right. I felt nothing. I just watched it move out of my body and knew I was being cleansed and healed and rebalanced. The color went form black to dark blue to ever increasing lighter colors until it was iridescent – fun of rainbows.
Now here’s the part I have not yet interpreted. A very large fish showed up to my left, she was gold and she simply smiled at me. I have no idea what that meant. I have a feeling she is a new helping spirit but I do now know her role.
And at that moment I knew I was in the River of Time and I was releasing stuck energy from the past and the present and was clearing the way for my next, my future. Clearing cleaning, releasing. All from simply sitting in the River of Time.
What powerful gift. A way to let go, to make room for. How extraordinarily freeing.
I have been back to the River of Time several times since, sometimes with a specific request, sometimes just to offer myself for a clearing of whatever needs to be released at this moment. It is a very powerful journey. This is a very powerful healing metaphor because it lets you release the unknown – the unknown blockages, or wounds or… It just lets you – let go.
This journey allows you to trust. To trust that whatever is rebased is what needs to go and you don’t have to know exactly what it is.
I did not have a plan for releasing anything. It just happened. What I released is still unknown to me but because of its color and how the color gradually lighted in color, I interpreted that to be healing. A release. A cleansing.
I have never gone to the River of Time with an intention to heal a particular experience or wound, but I could. I could set an intention and go to the edge of the river and see what I was invited to do. I may be invited to toss in what I want to release into the River of Time. I may simply put my fingertips into the river. Or I may dive clear in over my head. Whatever happens, it is a metaphor for change, a metaphor for releasing what is no longer needed or wanted or even releasing blockages that are unknown.
I still do not know what the big gold fish as about, but she defiantly smiled at me.
So we have a metaphoric healing process that lets us release the unknown, that encouraged us to trust that what is being released is beneficial.
Ans we get to trust the process, the experience and notice what changes manifest.
I have been back to the River of Time in a journey several times. I have gone with a specific intention to release a blockage in my body. It is a welcome place, a soothing place, a clearing place and place of change. My River of Time has fluffy cumulus clouds reflected in it. There are birds singing in the surrounding forest, there is sun shining on its surface. When you journey to the River of Time notice the landscape around it, the direction the river flows, what you are called to do. Let the River of Time lead you into this clearing process that will be unique to you.
I like the idea of the River of Time. It means I can go back into time and heal from a timeline of the past. It means I can take positive action in the present moment that will clearer the energy for my future timelines.
Use your imagination. Remember that everything in your journey is a metaphor that only you are to interpret. Let the River of Time guide you and heal you and use it often.
- I hope I brought you some new awareness, deeper ways to connect and insights and encouragement for your next steps.
- Pause to be with what we have explored. See what portals have opened up for you. Where you will go exploring next. This is a Journey of Discovery and we walk this part of the path together.
- Ashe, The creative in me honors the creative in you.
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- Until next time, this is Cara Lumen inviting you to Come Sing a Deeper Song.
