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The Sacred Voyage__Lars Faber.Pdf 1 The Sacred Voyage the pilgrimage to the soul 2 Lars Faber The Sacred Voyage Kinetics BV 3 Published by Kinetics BV Gasselte, The Netherlands [email protected] Information about The Sacred Voyage www.thesacredvoyage.com www.degewijdereis.nl [email protected] ISBN © 2006 Lars Faber Translation 2010 Klaas Pieter van der Tempel All rights reserved. Cover illustration: Lars Faber 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE PART I INTRODUCTION FOREWORD 7 1. The Sacred Temple 9 2. Rediscovering Your True Strength 15 PART II PERSPECTIVES 3. The Secret Club 24 4. Inspiration 30 5. The Secret Mariage 33 6. Your Birthright 36 7. Calling 42 8. Becoming One 47 9. Inner Teacher 50 10. The Disowned Selves 53 11. Energy Bodies 61 12. Quest 77 13. Awakening 85 14. Inner Compass 90 15. The Deity Awakens 99 16. The Dark Night of the Soul 108 17. Living with Heart and Soul 111 18. Consciousness 116 19. Sacred Consciousness 121 PART III SACRED VOYAGE – PREPARATION 20. Preparation 125 21. Set and Setting 130 22. Loving Guidance 141 23. Muscia Maestro! 151 24. Breath- and Bodywork 155 25. The Art of Devination 162 26. The Right Question 164 27. Rituals 166 28. Entheogenic Sacraments 170 29. On the Voyage 184 5 PART IV SACRED VOYAGE PAGE 30. The Map of the Sacred Voyage 186 PART V MAGICAL HEALING 31. Magical Healing at a Cellular Level 219 32. Method for Magical Healing at a Cellular Level 227 33. Life Energy 233 34. Detoxyfying your Cells 238 35. Building Up Your Immunity and Strength 244 36. Addressing the Cells 247 37. The Way to True Health 254 38. Free from Addictions 259 PART VI MAGICAL ABILITIES 39. Clear Perception 264 40. The Field 271 41. Third Eye 280 42. Alchemagic 286 43. Magical Abilities 291 44. Brilliance 294 BIBLIOGRAPHY 296 6 FOREWORD A few years ago, by pure 'coincidence', I discovered a method that healed me from serious psychological and physical illnesses. I ingested plants and mushrooms with healing powers a few times and miraculously transformed from being sick, depressive, and motionless to being healthy, high-spirited, and inspired. I discovered who I really am and what my calling in life is. I opened up to the gift of Clear Perception and received more and more knowledge and information to channel (via automatic writing). This way, I could use my own healing process to develop an accessible method for helping others with their developmental and healing processes. I stopped working and retreated from 'daily life,' threw out my radio and TV, and canceled all my subscriptions to newspapers and magazines. My connection to a higher source, as I call the channel by which I receive my information, is razor thin, and I could not deal with any distractions. I felt above all that I had made a discovery that could be of vital importance to myself and my loved ones. I began to guide others in their own process of achieving strength, insight and healing and quickly realized that the method which I was following wasn't just a powerful tool for my own development; other people were also being magically healed. People with years of chronic fatigue, burn-outs, depression, eating disorders and many other ailments saw their illnesses disappear like clouds on a sunny day, and could welcome true health into their lives for the first time in years. We experienced the power of the four to eight-hour sessions as if we had made a pilgrimage to a sacred place, and so I called her: “The Sacred Voyage, the pilgrimage to the soul.” In this book, you will not find any scientific evidence for the magical phenomena that I describe. Nor will you encounter a ready-made method which describes everything that is in store for you. The method of the Sacred Voyage only gives you a key to the door of another dimension. Behind this door is where magic rules, the universal life-force that has given a soul to everything which lives. Magic is the language of the soul, which only children can speak. Find the Child in your heart and unlock the dark secrets that obscure your soul. Follow the instructions of the Sacred Voyage and have a safe experience of the magical world of your soul. Learn to heal yourself from diseases and discover how you can become healthy. Find your calling, your place in the world and 7 rediscover your soul. Live every second as if it's your last so that when your time comes, you can look back with a great smile and see a life that was truly yours. If you are looking for soul mates to make the Voyage with then announce yourself on the forum at www.thesacredvoyage.com. If you want to ask me a question you can send an email to [email protected]. May Light and love enlighten your path! Lars Faber PS: As I will show in several parts of this book, I believe there isn't enough of a balance between masculine and feminine energies in our world. To return some of this uneasy balance, I often choose to use the female form, so that when I write 'she' it can also be read as 'he.' 8 PART 1 INTRODUCTION 1 The Sacred Temple No matter how far you have wandered, no matter how lost you are, know that the way home is never more than an hour away. No matter how much you have deviated or have failed in your own eyes, the Sacred Temple is always open for she who wishes to enter her with love in her heart. To find her, you need to do nothing more than loosen the reigns, like a horseman who can't find his way home anymore and lets his horse find its own way back to its stable. This is how we begin the journey to the temple where our soul resides, the Sacred Temple. The temple is protected from those with evil intentions or profane thoughts: for them it simply doesn't exist, and the path is hidden. Only those with the Child in their heart can carry the Light and find the Temple. The Gate shall open for them. That is the magic spell that keeps the Temple pure for the pilgrim on a quest for mercy. Mercy is to be found in every sign of our inspiration. It is a beacon of Light in the eternal darkness. Of everything that frightens us, we fear most that which is inevitable: death. It is our Sacred task to face our fear and to choose death as our companion. In the end it is her who gives beauty and happiness to our lives and who can charge every second with purpose and meaning. Only we can decide whether we push her aside or embrace her, loathe her or love her. If we decide to welcome death, we choose life. With this we take responsibility to truly live every second of our life, and to paint on the canvas of eternity that death gives us. Whoever chooses death as her companion sees in her not an enemy who must be fought off, but a horse that can be ridden. A horse that has her stable in the temple of the soul, the Sacred Temple. Whoever visits her in their lifetime, will fear death no more. 9 The Sacred Voyage is the story of the pilgrimage that you can make in search of inspiration. It is the Voyage that leads to the depths of our emotions, which lie stored in our being and which are aching to be released so that they can bring us to life. It is the story of the Voyage that liberates our Inner Child from the dark dungeons of our subconscious to which we have banished her. It is the story of the Godliness inside us which we can awaken and bring into our lives. Above all, it is a story of inspiration: the rediscovery of our soul. In this book I will show where we have lost her and how we can find her again. Living with your heart and your soul, that is what this book is about. The method which I propose is to plow up the field of our emotions. Talking about what has happened to us might bring us momentary relief, but it doesn't help us to till the soil of our feelings so that it can become fertile again. To penetrate the depth of our emotional experiences we have to approach her actively. I know of two powerful methods to do this, Holotropic breathing (emotional breathwork), and the use of healing plants and mushrooms, also know as entheogenic sacraments. The first, breathwork, is perfect for digging deep and finding the emotional blockages, and for making sure that our old angers, fears, sadness and joy can still be expressed, and flow out over our field of emotions and make it fertile. The second, the use of healing plants and mushrooms, is seen as an extension of the breathwork, the difference being that under the influence of entheogenic sacraments the plow will go even deeper. Furthermore, a breathing session can be interrupted, but if we make the Voyage with a sacrament, we give ourselves up completely to whatever happens for several hours. This surrender is what can heal us so deeply. I recommend using Ayahuasca, the sacred plant from the Amazon, as a sacrament, or the magic mushroom from Mexico. These sacraments are characterized by a special ability to confront us with everything that lives inside us, and to reveal our place in the world.
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