Karuna – One of The Most Beautiful Branches of Reiki

~1~ KARUNA One of The Most Beautiful Branches of REIKI By Sandra Ramos and Jorge A. Ramos KARUNA - ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BRANCHES OF REIKI Copyright © 2018 by Sandra Ramos and Jorge A. Ramos. All rights reserved. First Edition. Date of publishing: 18th July 2018. Please do not participate in piracy of copyrighted materials, as this demotivate the authors to continue their literary work. If you believe this e-book infringes on the author’s copyright, please notify us at: [email protected] Published in Portugal by Sandra Ramos and Jorge A. Ramos, CEOs, Instituto de Ciências Integradas™, Rua Lucília Simões, 13A, 1500-386 Lisboa, Portugal. Web: https://ici.org.pt/ E-mail: [email protected] Translated by Karina de Sousa. Names: Ramos, Sandra, & Ramos, Jorge A., authors. de Sousa, Karina, translator. Title: Karuna: one of the most beautiful branches of Reiki / Sandra Ramos and Jorge A. Ramos. ASIN: B07DMV9G3W Declared at SPA (Portuguese Society of Authors): ID-307. API406097469 & API-294059052. 27th June 2018. Registered at IGAC (General Inspection of Cultural Activities): N1595/2018. Reference: SIIGAC/2018/3825. 28th June 2018. Subjects: Nonfiction | Self-Help | Healthy Living| Complementary Medicine | Spirituality | Stress Management. Keywords: Karuna | Reiki | Guided Meditation | Meditagination | Personal development | Spirituality | Self-hypnosis | Compassion. ~3~ SANDRA RAMOS & JORGE A. RAMOS CONTENTS Dedication .......................................................................... 5 Preface ............................................................................... 6 Contents ............................................................................ 8 INTRODUCTION .................................................................14 The Literary Pathway........................................................ 14 Meditagination ................................................................. 17  I Am a Beautiful Being of Light............................... 20 The Light from The Source ......................................... 23  Feeling the Light from The Source .......................... 27 Beings of Light ........................................................... 30 THE ROOTS OF KARUNA ....................................................32 From Reiki to Karuna ....................................................... 32 The Branches of Karuna ................................................... 35 Karuna Healing System ............................................. 37 The System Structure .......................................... 37 The Karuna Levels ..................................................... 38 The Attunements ....................................................... 39 The Symbols .............................................................. 39 The Practices ............................................................. 40 The Meditations ......................................................... 41  Awakening the Inner Karuna ................................. 42 PREPARING THE INNER GARDEN .......................................45 Karuna and Compassion .................................................. 45 The Karuna Tear ........................................................ 47 The New Tears ........................................................... 49  Expand the Inner Karuna ...................................... 50 ~8~ KARUNA - ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BRANCHES OF REIKI The Basic Light of Karuna ................................................ 55 ZONAR....................................................................... 56 The North-American Roots................................... 57 Bridges of Light ................................................... 57 Bonds with the Beings of Light ............................ 59  Receive Aid from the Beings of Light ....................... 63 Meditaginations for Karuna Practitioners ................... 65 Cellular Reconcilement ........................................ 66  Casting Light onto Child Abuse .............................. 69 Past Life Traumas ................................................ 73  Reconcile a Past Life............................................... 75  Receiving the Light of Zonar ................................... 80 HALU ......................................................................... 83 The North-American Roots................................... 84 Negative PatterNs of the Unconscious .................. 85 Illuminating the Shadow...................................... 89  Loving the Shadow ................................................. 93 Psychic Aggressiveness ........................................ 97  Removal of Weeds ................................................ 103 Denormalisation of Abuse .................................. 106  Normalise the Karuna .......................................... 111 HARTH..................................................................... 114 The North-American Roots................................. 115 Love, Karuna and... Respect .............................. 115 THE Relationship: A Third Entity....................... 117  Reconcile a Third Entity ....................................... 123 Bad Habits ........................................................ 126 Good Habits ...................................................... 128  Inner Alchemy ...................................................... 131 Amplify the attunement with the Universal Light 135 ~9~ SANDRA RAMOS & JORGE A. RAMOS  Unified Light ........................................................ 136 ............................................ 139 RAMA ...................................................................... 140 The North-American Roots................................. 141 Joy .................................................................... 141 Harmonization of the First Chakras ................... 141 Grounding and Centring .................................... 142  Connection to the Seven Directions ...................... 146 Reintegration of Life Energy ............................... 151  Good Things in Life .............................................. 152  The Karuna Waterfall ........................................... 155 SPREADING NEW SEEDS .................................................. 158 Introduction to Intermediate Karuna .............................. 158 GNOSA .................................................................... 160 Divine Knowledge .............................................. 161 The Giant of Knowledge ..................................... 162  Inner Library ........................................................ 166 Follow in the Giant’s Footsteps .......................... 169  Stimulate the Creativity ....................................... 173 KRIYA ...................................................................... 178  Uncovering the Divine Potential ........................... 179 The North-American Roots................................. 180 Divine Action ..................................................... 180 Courage to Act with Love ................................... 181  To Act with Love ................................................... 184 The Boundaries of Balance ................................ 188 Materialize Objectives ........................................ 191  Your Wish is My Command .................................. 193 IAVA ........................................................................ 196 ~ 10 ~ KARUNA - ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BRANCHES OF REIKI The North-American Roots................................. 197 Divine Will ......................................................... 197 Personal Power – Part 1 ..................................... 198  Retrieve Personal Power ....................................... 201 Personal Power – Part 2 ..................................... 204  Give Back Personal Power .................................... 206 Veils of Illusion .................................................. 209 The Veil of Immortality............................................. 210 The Veil of Multidimensionality ................................ 210 The Veil of Extra-Sensoriality ................................... 211 The Veil of the Global Being ..................................... 211 The Veil of Memory .................................................. 211 The Veil of Isolation ................................................. 212 The Veil of Universal Energy .................................... 212 Respect for Different Realities ............................ 214  Unifying Inner Wills ............................................. 218 The Power of Affirmations .................................. 222  Magnetize Abundance .......................................... 226 Reconnect with Nature ...................................... 228  Attunement with the Forces of Nature .................. 230 SHANTI .................................................................... 236 The North-American Roots................................. 237 Divine Peace ...................................................... 237 Conscience ........................................................ 238 Multiple Consciences ......................................... 240 To Live Well in the Here and Now....................... 242  I Am, and I Feel Well Here and Now ..................... 245 Restful Sleep ..................................................... 248 Reconcile Panic Attacks ..................................... 249  Spread Inner Peace .............................................. 251 ~ 11 ~ SANDRA RAMOS & JORGE A. RAMOS MAINTAINING THE NEW INNER GARDEN .......................... 255 Advanced Karuna ........................................................... 255 OM .......................................................................... 257 The Sacred Sound ............................................. 258 The Om and the Lotus Flower ............................ 259 The Om Symbol in Karuna ................................ 260 To Live Fully ...................................................... 261  Expanding the Conscience ................................... 263 DUMO...................................................................... 269 The Dumo Fire .................................................. 270 Kundalini .......................................................... 272 The Gift of Life ................................................... 273 Exorcism ........................................................... 274  Self-Exorcism ....................................................... 277 NIN-GIZ-ZIDA .......................................................... 284 The Sumerian Roots .......................................... 285 Sushumna, Ida, and Pingala.............................. 286 The Humbleness of the Light ............................. 288  Ascension of the Kundalini................................... 290 DAI-KO-MYO ........................................................... 296 The Japanese Roots ........................................... 297 Forgiveness ....................................................... 299 Enlightenment ................................................... 302  I Am, and I Remain Enlightened ........................... 305  The Peace of Nature ............................................. 310 The Light of Death ............................................. 313 RAKU ....................................................................... 315 The Tibetan Origins ........................................... 316 Raku in the Karuna ........................................... 317 The Right to Choose .......................................... 319 ~ 12 ~ KARUNA - ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BRANCHES OF REIKI  Redefine Mental Maps .......................................... 322 OM-ATMA ................................................................ 327 The Portuguese Roots ........................................ 328 Knowledge of the Being ...................................... 329 Qualities of the Being ........................................ 330 Multiversal Consciences .................................... 332 God Syndrome ................................................... 335 Positive Side of Fear........................................... 336  I Am, and I Feel in Harmony ................................ 341 YOD ......................................................................... 350 Roots and Influences ......................................... 351 Love at First Sight ............................................. 352 Antahkarana ..................................................... 354 Hands of Light ................................................... 355 Diamond of Ascension ....................................... 357 The Ambivalence Towards Money ............................. 358 The Power of Language ............................................ 362  Look at Money with Love and Wisdom .................. 366 ENJOY THE INNER GARDEN ............................................ 370 Contrasts ....................................................................... 370  Expansion of the Inner Light ................................ 373 FINAL NOTES ................................................................... 376 Acknowledgements ......................................................... 376 References ...................................................................... 378 Contacts ......................................................................... 379 ~ 13 ~ SANDRA RAMOS & JORGE A. RAMOS INTRODUCTION THE LITERARY PATHWAY We are a couple whom since 1998 is committed to the study, practice, and teaching of natural and complementary therapies, particularly the work with instruments of human development and of expansion of conscience. We both hold an MSc in Clinical Psychology and Jorge also possesses a BA (Hons) in Linguistics. Working with different unconventional therapeutical approaches, we have observed how some of them are very effective while others… not so much. We apply this filter to the conduct of our work, aiming to provide therapies that can help to free the personality, the conscience, the soul and the spirit of the Being, and the suffering that, for so many people, is a result of being human. We have also observed how important it is to have an expanded and longitudinal knowledge of several therapeutic approaches to be able to select the best tool to work with each unique person who reaches out to us at a specific moment; we synergistically integrate other tools that may seem necessary at the time. In fact, flexibility and polyvalence are increasingly important attributes in any professional activity. We do not know of a single therapy – complementary or alternative – that can completely heal the human being on its own. What we did find, is that surprising results can be obtained using an integrated approach. Hence, we work with several natural complementary therapies, and advise on the need of a medical follow-up whenever the mental and/or physical health of the person suggests or demands so. ~ 14 ~ KARUNA - ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BRANCHES OF REIKI of our dear friend Dr Karina de Sousa, here is our first publication in English: Karuna – one of the most beautiful branches of Reiki. From this moment on, we invite the reader to begin a journey around and inside the huge world that is the Karuna system. It is a long journey which, beyond the other aspects already mentioned, we hope will help you to know yourself a little better. Perhaps, and more importantly, help you to love more the multiple aspects of your inner world, especially those that move in cloudy or shady places and represent a common request, one which you certainly have often heard: ‘I need you to look at me.’ What can the reader expect from this journey? You can expect a process of inner alchemy that will expand the light of your love and wisdom, as well as of all the qualities that are inherent to it. An internal makeover that will be supported by the immense richness that the Karuna system conveys, namely in the context of this book, through its symbols, which represent specific aspects of the Universal Life Force and are suggestive of multiple meditations that aim to help to transform the human experience into a blessing. We are sensitive, nonetheless, to the needs of people who surround us and to those of these modern times, where there is always less time, and we wanted to create a book that was distinct, a book where we not only suggest meditations, but also where we try to steer the reader, whilst reading, to actively and promptly participate in the comprehension and transmutation of his or her inner world. How? By giving life to a new concept of reading, which we have named... MEDITAGINATION An odd term? Let us try to clarify it. Meditagination is a word that may have been created by us, to consider the union of two ~ 17 ~ SANDRA RAMOS & JORGE A. RAMOS concepts: meditation and imagination. However, primarily, let us express, succinctly, what it means for us to meditate and to imagine. Meditation is a path that leads to the discovery of the Self, of simply being. To Be, free of fear, guilt or other forms that repress or weaken the spontaneous manifestation of our Internal Light – the Light that results from balancing the love of the soul and the wisdom of the spirit. To Be is to be awake every second, being entirely in the moment, living it, loving it, feeling a connection to everything and everyone. Therefore, meditation transmutes into an ocean, which unfolds and expands along multiple dimensions and planes, where the one who meditates and the others, the You and the I, cease to be relevant, creating a space for the blooming of inexplicable purity of the true Self. On the other hand, to imagine is to discover a portal – or rather, a set of portals. These portals, once open, are enablers of multiple internal and external journeys: to the depths of our subconsciousness, to the memories in our cells, or to the tides of the rivers of our blood, up to the reading of our innermost books of life. Journeys to the memories of the planet, to the collective libraries of humanity, to the consciousness of our Sun or the Great Central Sun of Sirius, to the reading of the numerous external books of life, which surround us all and are reachable. Imagination also becomes an antenna of sorts, one extremely powerful and limitless, pointing to and attuned by our intentions. Therefore, meditagination designates a reading process through which the reader, by the power of his own imagination (which will be guided by the phrasal constructions we will use) allows himself to be transported to internal and external spaces, where he will tune in and resonate with the deepest as well as the multidimensional parts of himself, opening doors, in a natural and fully conscious way, to the expansion of his own Internal Light, with the support that the Compassionate Beings in this and other dimensions of existence have to offer him. Very naturally, the ~ 18 ~ KARUNA - ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BRANCHES OF REIKI reader will enter stages of profound meditation, where miracles and a multiplicity of blessings await. You can identify the meditaginations in the table of contents, by locating this symbol: . Use it to quickly find the meditagination you feel you should do, at a certain moment of your life (perhaps even after you read the whole book and are accustomed to its dynamic). So that the reader can be initiated in the dynamic of the meditaginations, we propose the first one as from right now. You should consider the following recommendations (which are valid for all meditaginations): 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Read slowly, feel every word, and open your Self to the energy conveyed by the text; Make use of the power of your imagination – remember that it resembles a portal or antenna – and imagine every step of the meditagination; Have a 1 second pause for every comma, a 2 to 4 seconds pause for every suspension point, and a 5 to 7 seconds for a new paragraph; Close your eyes when we suggest it; if you feel sleepy, do not fight, flow with that feeling, and restart the meditagination at another time; Some meditaginations are accompanied by images or symbols to help you travel – trust them, let yourself go, and give them your allowance. Remember that these meditaginations are not mere text, that they exist for you to truly imagine, meditate, experience, to be. You have in your possession a live book that will interact with you and become your friend. Try it now... ~ 19 ~ KARUNA - ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BRANCHES OF REIKI  FEELING THE LIGHT FROM THE SOURCE I now slow the speed of my reading and breathe deeply... I take my consciousness, into an inner space blessed by love and by peace... it is a space in the centre of my chest, that is opening now... and expands through every atom that composes my being... enveloping me in a stunning Internal Light... that comforts and nourishes me... it is the Light of the Essence of my Love and my Wisdom... With every breath, the essences of my love and wisdom, spread and reinforce their Light, and run through all the structures of my being... and I, watch... I observe my emotions, relaxing them... observe my thoughts, and slow them down... observe the distinct aspects of my personality, and relax them... I observe the whole of my inner world... I take a deep breath, and relax it... Very relaxed, I now tune in to the other dimension of myself... the purest portion of my Being... the part of me, who genuinely Loves and is Wise... and I realize if there are memories, around this part of me, which may be hindering the complete manifestation of its divine qualities... Now, I let go of all the internal resistance I may have found, giving even more freedom to the expression of the splendour of my inner Light... I feel now, my internal Light, reaching into every part of me... infusing and permeating them with Love and Wisdom... expanding beyond the physical and supra-physical structures of my being... ~ 27 ~ SANDRA RAMOS & JORGE A. RAMOS And with the expansion of my Internal Light, I start to resonate with the Light of the Great Universe... and I vibrate as one single Light... I am one with Universal Love... I am one with the Universal Wisdom... I feel blessed with this union... The resonance with Universal Love, opens and expands, even more, the Light of my Sacred Heart... and my internal barriers dissolve, because of this union... allowing me to attune even more, with the Sacred Heart of the Source... I open, even more, my whole Being, to this attunement... I am one with the Source... The resonance with the Universal Wisdom, opens and expands, even more, the Light of my Sacred Mind... and every internal barrier dissolve, because of this union... allowing me to tune in even more, with the Sacred Mind of the Source... I open, even more, my whole Being, to this attunement... I am one with the Source... Now, I breathe in deeply... and I feel that, originating in the Source, a beautiful Cascade of Light, showers over me... wrapping me and nourishing me, with the purest Love, and with the Pure Wisdom of the Source... This cascade of Light strengthens the attunement between my Inner Light and the Great Light from the Source... and I will stay for a few minutes enjoying this paradisiacal and blessed feeling... I close my eyes, I make myself comfortable and allow myself to Be One with the Source. ~ 28 ~ KARUNA - ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BRANCHES OF REIKI PREPARING THE INNER GARDEN KARUNA AND COMPASSION Karuna is a word originated from the mother of all IndoEuropean languages – Sanskrit – and translates to any action to lessen the suffering of other living beings. But the term Karuna can also be translated as compassionate action or simply Compassion. In the words of Rinpoche 10, compassion: (…) is not simply a sense of sympathy or caring for the person suffering, not simply a warmth of heart towards the person before you, or a sharp clarity of recognition of their needs and pain, it is also a sustained and practical determination to do whatever is possible and necessary to help alleviate their suffering (1996, p. 227). We believe that compassion is one of the virtues and strengths that can brighten the way to ascension, by making linear and transparent the apparently chaotic network created by the roles that each Being plays in a unified and perfect whole. Even though the Western science has only recently awakened to the exploration of the above-mentioned unification (through quantum physics), sages, shamans, saints, philosophers and even 10 Sogyal Rinpoche is a Tibetan professor and lecturer who after China's invasion of his country, in 1950, exiled abroad. He became a recognized master, and founded Rigpa – a network of Buddhist centres and groups with affiliates all over the planet. ~ 45 ~ SANDRA RAMOS & JORGE A. RAMOS DENORMALISATION OF ABUSE We may not talk about it, or discuss it in a conscious way, but we all know that we live in a society where abuse is increasingly frequent, and, quite abnormally, often becomes normalised. While the work with the Zonar focused on child abuse, with the symbol Halu we will work on excesses we commit against ourselves, against others, and with those which, somehow, we allow other people to commit against us whilst at the same time they abuse their own moral and ethical values. What is this abuse we are talking about? We would need to write a very bulky book about this topic, but will try to summarize and focus on the most important aspects. Some abuses are highly traumatic, such as sexual abuse, which may occur not only during childhood but anytime during a person’s life. This kind of abuse can be divided into two main subtypes: (1) when the person commits self-abuse by using their body as a source of economic gain; (2) when the person is having sex devoid of desire or love, just to save the relationship. The first one is clearly visible everywhere, increasingly sophisticated, and wellestablished; the second is nearly invisible, silent, and abnormally normalised, and confined to the black box: kept in the secret spaces of the castles in the protagonists’ consciences, who repeat to themselves, of course, ‘all is well.’ Other types of abuse do not leave such a mark, but are just as relevant, for instance when you abuse your body by working it to exhaustion, by doing drugs, drinking, or smoking excessively, eating too much or not enough, or not caring about what goes into your organism – yes, since it is through these organisms which we have conventionally named bodies, that we, beings, experience life as humans. And how many of us, human beings, are truly aware of the abuse we inflict to our own vehicle of human experience? ~ 106 ~ SANDRA RAMOS & JORGE A. RAMOS HARTH ~ 114 ~ KARUNA - ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BRANCHES OF REIKI  INNER ALCHEMY I start by focusing my attention in the vice I want to alchemize with this meditagination... I now slow the speed of my reading... and take a deep breath... again, a deep breath... and once more... I relax my body... a little more... and I allow a part of my consciousness, to travel into an internal space of mine, blessed by love and by peace... I take a deep breath and feel this space opening in the centre of my chest... I feel my inner Light expanding throughout my being... surrounding me in a Lavender coloured Light so soft and serene... Now, I open myself to feel the presence of the Angels of Love, who are already vibrationally preparing me for this meditagination... and I cooperate, by imagining that I am in the centre of a pyramid... a Pyramid of Angelic Light... where the Lavender Light that radiates from my chest, is mixed with Angelical Rays of Light of brilliant white and silvery shades... And I imagine that from one of the walls in the Pyramid of Angelic Light, a beautiful luminous dot bearing the letter ‘A’ is projected in front of me, representing the vibration of my emotional and spiritual state before I acquired the vice I proposed to work at... I close my eyes, and I get in tune with the vibration of ‘A’, now... Next to the bright dot ‘A’, the Angels of Love now project another dot, dark, the dot ‘C’, which represents the current vibration of my emotional and spiritual state with the vice I proposed to work at... I close my eyes, and I get in tune with the vibration of ‘C’, now... Between the luminous dot ‘A’ and the dark dot ‘C’, the Angels of Love now project another even darker dot, dot ‘B’, which represents the cause of dot ‘C’... so ‘B’ represents the main reason ~ 131 ~ KARUNA - ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BRANCHES OF REIKI  STIMULATE THE CREATIVITY With every breath I now start a process to slow the speed of my reading... and take a deep breath... again... once more... I relax my body... I keep my back straight, without strain... I relax a little more... I keep my head aligned with my back, without strain... with every breath, I feel lighter... I take another deep breath... I feel good... and happy to be alive... I now allow a part of my consciousness, to travel into my inner space, which is blessed by pure Light... I breathe deeply and feel this space opening in the centre of my chest... I allow my Inner Light of love and peace, and its luminescence, to expand throughout my being... Surrounded by Light, I now ask for the help of the Unicorns of the 7th dimension to help me stimulate and expand my creativity... I take a deep breath, and open myself a little more to feel the vibration of the Unicorn who has come to help me... He invites me to a waterfall, which is just a wish away... I set myself free and go to it... We pass under the waterfall... and I feel the purifying freshness of the water cleansing my fears... I let ~ 173 ~ KARUNA - ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BRANCHES OF REIKI DUMO ~ 269 ~ SANDRA RAMOS & JORGE A. RAMOS things. Some other times still, the inner conflicts between admiration and disappointment, love, and fear, come to the surface, but since it is forbidden to manifest it in the right direction, the conflict is projected onto somebody else, at institutions, or even manifests as self-flagellation, all an attempt to diminish the inner tension. How can the Kundalini possibly ascend through all these (and many others) knots in our chakras? Should we thus rebel against our parents to favour the ascension of our Kundalini? Absolutely not, it does not seem like a promising idea to us; that would certainly create even more inner conflicts and vibrational nodules. However, what if we could talk to them, openly, as adults in tune with the love from the soul that will always unite us and them, beyond our fears, frustrations, and repressed sorrows? Would not that be a tremendous relief for everyone? Would we not also be initiating an important process to stop projecting repressed negative feelings onto other people and consequently start nurturing healthier relationships? It is in this and other inner processes of cure that the universal energy that the Dumo represents and helps convey can act: to help break the vibrational knots in the chakras, that are not only impeding the ascension of the Kundalini but also, the very flow of personal vital energy. Because of this and all else we have mentioned before, it is not a surprise to us anymore to observe a rejuvenation of the faces of people after they go through the Karuna initiation, much as if they had been in a rejuvenation chamber, or as if they had been submitted to a vigorous... EXORCISM We mentioned at the beginning of this text that the symbol Dumo is also used for exorcisms in Tibet. But in our society, exorcism is a taboo topic. Hence, to talk about it, watchful respect and caution is required; that does not mean that the topic should ~ 274 ~ KARUNA - ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BRANCHES OF REIKI never be discussed, much on the contrary. Yet, many people avoid talking about it. Why? The word exorcism designates a ritual through which demonic possessions are extracted from a person. Let us, however, pay attention to the term demonic possessions. In our opinion, it seems that the term could be paraphrased into ‘energies far from the divine’ or ‘energetic manifestations which are not part of the divine nature of the Being.’ Therefore, we can easily conclude that many people need an exorcism. Let us meditate, and think about it. It is public knowledge that many people are possessed by the energy of envy, a malignant and insatiable energy that dwells mostly in the eyes. Others have the energy of greed as their patron, a surreptitious entity that crushes everything on its path, so it can own more and more things. People can be attacked on many occasions by the ghosts of fear, and be locked in dungeons of suspicion and distrust. Some people are possessed by a secondary energy stemming from envy: the venomous spirit of obloquy and slander that unfolds and infects other people quicker than they can defend themselves. Some people, living in houses haunted by the spirits of guilt, have their consciences possessed while they sleep; not even sleeping pills have the power to banish those evil spirits. Other people live constantly tormented by the horrifying ghosts of repressed hatred, which can manifest as a fiery emotional hurricane. These spirits and ghosts are energies far from the divine, so much so that sometimes other hauntings and spirits are fittingly created around them; these serve the function of masking the real problems. We do not mean to say that there are no real spirits. In fact, the list of existing spirits could go on and on (and will go on in a book about Shamanism that we will write). What we are pondering here is how much humanity is possessed by these energetic manifestations which are not part of the divine nature of the Being. Additionally, given the fact that many Karuna initiates look like they have been rejuvenated upon their first attunement to the system (and the ever-present vibration of the Dumo), does this ~ 275 ~ KARUNA - ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BRANCHES OF REIKI  SELF-EXORCISM I take a deep breath... and with every breath, I slow the speed of my reading... I relax... a little further... and I wish for my Inner Light to shine, and spread throughout all the dimensions of my Being... I ask the Compassionate Beings of the Universe to be in attendance now... to help me, during this meditagination, in the extraction of the energetic manifestations, which are not part of the divine nature of my Being... I ask them to remove, during this meditagination, any energies that are not vibrating in accordance to the Divine Light... I take a deep breath... and cooperate now, with the Compassionate Beings of the Universe, by imagining I am sitting on the spiral of the Dumo... where I keep my attention focused for about one minute, starting now... ~ 277 ~ KARUNA - ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BRANCHES OF REIKI THE SUMERIAN ROOTS We have seen how the Dumo represents the warmth of the Kundalini. In turn, the Nin-Giz-Zida represents the Kundalini itself, a term that, as we have discussed previously, is a reference to a type of Universal Life Force reservoir nestled in the Root Chakra. This life force is associated with a coiled serpent, which when awakened tends to ascend through the other main chakras until it reaches the seventh, the crown chakra, and the quite numinous enlightenment: transcendence to another level of consciousness and state of Being, above the temporal and spatial dimensions that we all experience in this moment as humans. This is represented by the upper horizontal line in the Nin-Giz-Zida symbol. The Nin-Giz-Zida is known in the Karuna system as the Fire Serpent, and is also used in the Tibetan spiritual practices. However, both denominations attributed to this symbol send us back to Mesopotamia, more specifically to Sumeria and to a Divinity associated with fertility, magic, and healing, one who loves ~ 285 ~ SANDRA RAMOS & JORGE A. RAMOS  REDEFINE MENTAL MAPS I take a deep breath... and allow myself to relax... take another deep breath... even deeper now... and with every breath, I slow the speed of my reading, now... I relax all the muscles of my physical body... I slow the flow of my thoughts... I relax a little further... and I wish for my Inner Light to shine, and to spread throughout all the dimensions that make up my Being... surrounding me in an Indigo Blue Light, intense, beautiful, and profound... And surrounded by this Blue Light, sublime, peaceful and soothing, I ask the Compassionate Beings of the Universe to be in attendance here, now... I ask that they help me, during this meditagination, to redefine a path in a mental map, which is contributing to guide my life, into events of suffering or apathy... And I cooperate, by focusing attention on my breathing... I separate my lips, and when I exhale, close my eyes as if death was taking me away... Inhale, and open my eyes, as if I am waking up to life... and repeat this rhythmic movement seven more times, and become more aware, of the frailty and ephemerality, of the life in this physical body, now... I remember my age, now, in this physical body... and, according to the national’s life expectancy average, it is possible I will live for # more years in this body... Potentially more, or less than that... but it is for certain that this physical body will end one day... Further aware of the ephemerality of this life, I wish to enjoy the time I have left, with all the quality I could hope for... so, I ask the Beings of Light, to help me recognize, something that may be keeping me from enjoying the good things about life on Earth... I will next close my eyes, to recognize some behaviour pattern or ~ 322 ~ SANDRA RAMOS & JORGE A. RAMOS the highest powers who are guiding that person towards a very specific life experience. Following these considerations about the God syndrome, the Om-Atma has helped us understand that it is best to remain small towards anything that is related to the highest powers that move in and around spirituality – something that now brings us to a more conscientious and alert observation of the... POSITIVE SIDE OF FEAR Sometimes we like to harmlessly pique people who wish to receive treatment to heal their fears. We tell them that some fears are important, and we should not heal all of them. For instance, the fear of elevators can be a terrible thing for some people, making them climb up (and come back down) several flights of stairs every day, but what if that person needs to exercise and that fear is the way that the spirit has found to orientate the personality towards that? Other fears may even save lives, such as the fear to go past red traffic lights: if the fear was not there, the probability of having a traffic accident or running over a pedestrian would increase exponentially. The fear of predators, for example, can be crucial – imagine you find yourself in a situation where a hungry lion is hunting you: you may freeze and not react, which may be fatal, or you may react and run away, because you are afraid of being devoured, afraid of a violent death. Of course, what matters to us is that the person opens up a little and ditches the burden of their most limiting, painful fears. This potentially allows them to be able to conclude that, more often than not, there is an occult but positive side to those fears. But as we know, while some fears are allocated to the deepest areas of our subconscious, such as the fear of being crucified, others are allocated to more superficial areas, such as the fear of not having enough clients, connected to a series of other fears which are typical of business owners, such as ourselves, and possibly the reader as well. This fear, like so many others, has two ~ 336 ~ SANDRA RAMOS & JORGE A. RAMOS YOD ~ 350 ~ SANDRA RAMOS & JORGE A. RAMOS that from the moment one is attuned to this symbol there is a dire need to pay close attention to one’s wishes, since the power of materialization increases significantly. This brings us to another question: attuned to the Yod or otherwise, can we, human beings in general, have a healthier relationship with money? Sure we can, by paying attention to what we think and say concerning money, as well as what we do with it; by no more blaming others for our lack of financial abundance, and directing our inner forces to constructive and innovative paths; by relating less with people who rather stay in the energy of victimization and let themselves be imprisoned by their problems, and relate more to different individuals who endeavour to find positive, healthy solutions and see money as an essential object to materialize those solutions. Work with love and dedication. Be wise enough to observe temptation as a test to the authenticity of our honesty. Furthermore, so that we can interact with money in a healthier way, it is also imperative that we become aware of the presence of... THE POWER OF LANGUAGE Our Being, spirit, and soul started to develop their language from the very first moments in existence. Language is inherent to life itself and cannot be dissociated from it. And just as our Being needs a body (human or otherwise) to experience life, language requires an idiom to manifest. In other words, as life is ubiquitous, so is language. As it is generally known, a (verbal) language is composed by a group of sounds, to which symbols are associated, and the interaction between those elements creates words and propositions that allow for the transference and comprehension, coding and decoding, of ideas, feelings, thoughts, and emotions, through speech or writing – in a word, allows for communication. But spirit and soul do not communicate only via our verbal ~ 362 ~ SANDRA RAMOS & JORGE A. RAMOS  LOOK AT MONEY WITH LOVE AND WISDOM I take a deep breath... and with every breath, I slow the speed of my reading... I relax... and allow my inner Light to shine in all the parts that compose my Being... I imagine that I am sitting on the divine hands, represented by the concave line of the Yod, which is irradiating a very peaceful Rose-coloured Light... I imagine all my chakras are attuned with the qualities of the divine hands, which are emanating a loving, healing Green Light... and I imagine that the upper diamond of the Yod, is working on my third vision, filling it with an Indigo Light so vibrant and dynamic, that it amplifies my consciousness, in a way that is blessed... enlightened... divine... And I ask the Compassionate Beings of the Universe to be in attendance now and to help me, to integrate into the multi- ~ 366 ~ SANDRA RAMOS & JORGE A. RAMOS ENJOY THE INNER GARDEN CONTRASTS We are aware that the reader has come a long way in this journey, to be here, now, at this point. If you did not use shortcuts, we are inclined to assume that your inner garden is now different; hopefully, it now has more light, more harmony, more colours, and more life. If this is the case, the goals we set out to accomplish with this piece of work were entirely achieved. Otherwise, it might be worthwhile to go back to the beginning and restart reading. We are also aware that this book mentions some hot topics of spirituality, and in life in general. Most of these topics, among many others, are usually worked out at the brain, consciousness, and mental level of the Karuna practitioners, when they do their self-healing treatments, often without even realizing what is being alchemized in their many structures through the different vibrations of the Universal Life Force that the symbols represent and convey, naturally manifesting the fruits of their labours. We wanted, however, to create a conductive media to allow Karuna initiates and non-initiates alike, to experience in a more conscientious manner what the vibrational frequencies of the symbols suggest we do for inner work – something, we believe and trust, that will adapt naturally to the idiosyncratic needs of the reader in whichever turn of the road you may be on now. This media that you are reading now, which has a life of its own, was written based on our work and life experiences. Of ~ 370 ~ KARUNA - ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BRANCHES OF REIKI CONTACTS For further information, and/or for sharing your experience with the reading of this book, please contact us at: Sandra Ramos & Jorge A. Ramos Address: Rua Lucília Simões, 13-A. 1500-386 Lisboa. Portugal. Phone: +351-217647419 Website: www.ici.org.pt E-mail: [email protected] Facebook page of the book: https://fb.me/karunabook Stay tuned for our next books in English! Blessed be. ~ 379 ~