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Let me give you an example of how this works from my own life. In my Venus Sequence, my core issue is represented by the 57 th Shadow. This 57 th archetype is all about Distrust. I am talking about universal distrust here. This is a deep-seated visceral fear about the future, and it manifests as either impetuousness or hesitancy, depending upon your cultural conditioning. This distrust operates so deeply within me that I have never been able to do anything about it. It has simply always been there. With the knowledge I have gleaned from the Venus Sequence I have been able to dive deep into this Shadow frequency and really look this fear in the eye. The result is that I have discovered that it conceals a Gift within it – the 57 th Gift of Intuition. The distrust is only there when I don’t trust my intuition, and the more I trust my intuition, the more stable and easy my life becomes. As I have now opened up a channel somewhere deep within me to my intuitive side, I have also at times hit even higher states. The highest vibration of the 57 th archetype is called the Siddhi of Clairaudience, and it is about actually hearing frequencies from the future. It is because I experienced this siddhi right at the heart of my own wound that the Venus Sequence came into being in the first place – I picked it up on the higher airwaves. The most amazing thing of all is that it lay concealed right beneath the root cause of all my difficulties in life.
The 64 Siddhis and the origins of Tantra
As I have just recounted, my own higher Gift is about hearing higher frequency consciousness in order to ally primal human fears. I have used the term ‘Siddhi’ in my work on the 64 Gifts, which is a slightly controversial term if you know anything about spiritual seeking. Traditionally speaking, a ‘siddhi’ refers to a special power that can be unlocked during higher states of consciousness. But siddhis are generally seen by the wise as obstacles to the path of enlightenment, so the word has a bit of a bad rap. I am not using this word in the same way to denote any special powers, but rather to indicate the genetic themes of different states of realisation or final liberation. This is precisely what the word really means, and I think it has been misinterpreted down the years.
What I didn’t know, but what my higher intuition told me, was that there actually exists an ancient tradition of the 64 Siddhis. One evening, I put it into an internet search engine just for fun, and was stunned to find all these ancient teachings concerning the 64 siddhis! I have now researched the matter thoroughly and discovered an amazing ancient fractal of knowledge deriving from the 64 Siddhis and rooted in the Vedic traditions of India . Obviously, some ancient sadhu sitting in a cave with the Siddhi of Clairaudience picked up the future frequencies of our genetic code! |
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