The Inner Guide Meditation

fdwin C. THf INNfR GU MfDITATI THE INNER GUIDE MEDITATION A Spiritual Technology for the 21st Century Edwin C. Steinbrecher SAMUEL WEISER, INC. York Beach, Maine First published in 1988 by Samuel Weiser, Inc. R O. Box 612 York Beach, Maine 03910-0612 www.weiserbooks.com 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 Copyright © 1988 Edwin C. Steinbrecher All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or trans- mitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, without permission in writing from Samuel Weiser, Inc. Reviewers may quote brief passages. 1st Edition: An Excerpt from "The Guide Meditation, "April, 1975, private printing, Santa Fe, NM. 2nd Edition: The Guide Meditation: The Manual on Theory and Technique, July, 1975, private printing, Santa Fe, NM. 3rd Edition: The Guide Meditation, 1977, private printing, Santa Fe, NM. 4th Edition: The Inner Guide Meditation, 1978, Blue Feather Press, Santa Fe, NM. 5th Edition: The Inner Guide Meditation: A Transformative Journey to Enlightenment and Awareness, 1982, The Aquarian Press, London, England. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 85-51591 ISBN 0-87728-657-4 BJ Cover illustration is a painting titled Aquarius Rising. Copyright © 1988 Joe Rizzo. Used by kind permission. Printed in the United States of America The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials Z39.48-1992(R1997). Contents Acknowledgments vii Foreword ix Preface to Revised Sixth Edition xi Part 1: Basic Concepts 1 Introduction 3 The Archetypes 6 The Tarot 8 Astrology 9 Projection 12 Active Imagination 21 Becoming Conscious 24 The Initial Experiments 29 False Guides and False Guidance 43 Part 2: Inner Guide Meditation and the Kundalini Effect 51 How to Contact the Inner Guide 53 Working with Your Guide 67 Kundalini 74 Part 3: Questions and Answers 93 Part 4: Technical Aspects 205 How to Translate a Horoscope into Tarot Terms 207 How to Plug Your Relatives into Your Horoscope 246 The Inner Guide Meditation and the IChing 252 Appendix: Transiting Positions of Pluto, Neptune, Uranus and Saturn 259 Recommended Reading 265 D.O.M.E. Services 273 About the Author 275 Index 277 Acknowledgments Ghateful acknowledgment is made to Inner Traditions Interna- tional, Ltd., 1 Park Street, Rochester, VT 05767; Oxford Univer- sity Press, 200 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016; Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 08540; the Sabian Publishing Soci- ety, 2324 Norman Road, Stanwood, WA 98292; and to Mitch Walker/Treeroots Press, P. O. Box 684, Berkeley, CA 94704, for their kind permissions to utilize materials from their respective publications. I would also like to thank all the people and groups, past and present, who have helped in their many and varied ways to produce this present work. Special thanks to my parents, Edwin E. and Helen S. Steinbrecher, to my God-mother, Josephine M. Siska — the real founder of D.O.M.E. —who introduced my family to astrology and metaphysics, to David Benge, Maggie Bott, Stephen P, Connors, Maryanne Hastings, Michael Sean Tierney, and John Woodsmall of D.O.M.E., the Inner Guide Meditation Center, for their inspiration and support over the years, to Steven Hechter for .ilways appearing to help edit and advise just when I have to get a new edition out, to Leigh McCloskey, Carol Hurd Rodgers and Sheila W. Ross for their beautiful artwork for this book, to Karl T. Tani for both his graphics and his tarot illustrations, and to my five known Inner Guides, Aman, George, Ta, Emily and Simon. Foreword The investigation of the inner world of the soul has long been the special province of what is known as occultism. Some forms of religion have also attempted much the same task —especially the Eastern ones —limited, however, by some original revelation which hampered the free reign of scientific method. It is only in relatively recent times that some schools of modern psychology have turned their attention to that same area, and in the process of doing so developed their own peculiar techniques. The latter, curiously enough, bear many resemblances to the more archaic methods that are referred to as occult. The author of this little handbook on meditation deserves an enormous amount of credit for first having approached the possi- bility of such methods through the medium of analytical psychology, the method of Carl G. Jung. Since Steinbrecher was an astrol- oger years before becoming an analyst and, it did not take him long to perceive relationships and thus to attempt some kind of unifica- tion of these different sets of ideas and techniques. So his handbook describes an amalgam of Jung's use of creative imagination, astrology and the tarot. The author evidently knows what he is doing, for he has evolved a viable system of self-discovery with all sorts of fascinating overtones and undertones. The book is clearly written, the technique vividly and plainly described so that there is little room for misunderstanding as to what the author means. The meditation often yields up entirely new and unexpected types of information and interpretation relative to the meaning of the tarot, for example, and/their relation to the planetary symbols — and in turn to the psycho-physical structure of the student. Steinbrecher's directions are unambiguous and should be intel- ligible to anybody with the least capacity for imaginative or occult X THE INNER GUIDE MEDITATION work. I am certain this book, from the very tentative first edition of only a few years ago to the umpteenth yet to come, will go down in occult history as one of the most significant contributions to meditation in modern times. Edwin Steinbrecher deserves any praise and commendation that is handed out to him, for he has labored long and patiently in this field especially to make The Inner Guide Medi- tation the classic that it is well on its way to becoming. Israel Regardie Sedona, Arizona 1983 Preface to Revised Sixth Edition It is now eighteen years since I discovered the Inner Guides as entities specific to each person and more than ten years since the first edition of The Inner Guide Meditation made its appearance in the world. My view of the meditation continues to evolve and expand. In a time when many systems for interacting with archetypes and working on the inner planes abound, I continue to regard the work with the Inner Guide and archetypes as the safest and most specific way available for touching Spirit and for learning the spiritual physics that governs everything in each of our perceived realities. I see the book as a primer for the 21st century shaman and the meditation as a spiritual technology for a technician of the sacred. A shaman is one who works with super-nature, that which is beyond, but which interacts with and affects the physical plane. The shaman of today no longer requires the rigid doctrines and outdated traditions of other ages and times. The shaman is free — wherever he or she resides—to discover, test and develop his or her own unique spiritual path by working with personal Inner Guides. And the developed shaman, perhaps evolving into priest or priest- ess, is urgently needed for this post-Christian spiritual era we find ourselves in. Exclusive religious forms and bibles interpreted dog- matically have had their day. The time for outer gurus and hierar- chical spiritual structures is done. We have left the influence of the autocratic Fish of the first phase of our Piscean Age, and we now can flow with the friendly Fish of the second phase. Revisions and additions to this work will necessarily continue until my death, since the wisdom given by interaction with the archetypes and the knowledge others bring from their own inner experiences continue the revelatory process. I feel like a man pol- ishing a gem to enable it to reflect and refract more Light. xii THE INNER GUIDE MEDITATION May this book continue to reach and touch the lives of all of you who have asked for a way to journey within to your own spiritual sources. Blessed be your knowledge of Spirit. Sacred is your Path. Edwin C. Steinbrecher D.O.M.E. The Inner Guide Meditation Center Los Angeles, California November, 1987 D.O.M.E. Dei Omnes Munda Edunt All the Gods and Goddesses bring forth the worlds Initiators' Creed of D.O.M.E. This I know: the flow of universal energies through me and my response to this flow create my personal reality. Bringing myself and these energies into harmony heals my experienced world. The inner worlds generate the outer world, and the source of all is within. The Inner Guides are our teachers and advisors in our personal quests for wholeness and spiritual enlightenment. Work with these inner teachers in the Inner Guide Meditation facilitates achievement of these goals. Each of us carries total responsibility, without blame, for the world that is individually experienced and cannot disclaim responsibility for any portion of it. Work with the Inner Guide can bring this world into a state of harmony and balance. To kill, injure or cause harm, either physical or psycholog- ical, to a fellow being injures and causes harm to the individual God-flow. Expansion of individual consciousness expands the consciousness of all beings. Turn inward for your voyage! For all your arts You will not find the Stone In foreign parts. Angelus Silesius, Alchemist Part 1 BASIC CONCEPTS Introduction Times of great change are times of stress for both individuals and collective groups of people.

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