DP: Two Powers Meditation
December 2nd, 2009
The Two Powers Meditation
I should preface this essay by making a confession: as a theater student at Towson University, much of our body is work is done in a form that is similar to spiritual practice. We work to connect our bodies with the ground, and be wholly and fully aware of our bodies. We are trained to know what minute movements they make, and what sounds may be produced by standing a certain way. We understand the value of rhythm in our breathing, and work each day to attain stringent control over our motor skills.
In this way, the constant exercise has taught me the value of group mind and creating a more heightened awareness. It has also taught me discipline and concentration. I found it amusing when I was introduced to the Two Powers meditation how similar this method of meditation was to what I had been doing at school.
The principle core of the Two Powers meditation is to empower and establish the role of the seeker as being rooted in both worlds: The earth below and the sky above. We sometimes perform this meditation during our Sunday Walk With The Old Ones at Cedarlight Grove. What follows is my own experience with the meditation, and how I visualize the energy being moved.
We begin by visualizing our roots and remembering our connection to the Earth mother. I have very little difficulty visualizing things, as I have a wacky imagination. Often when I visualize roots outstretching from my feet, they sink deep into the cool of the earth until it reaches an underground waterway. The water is filled with phantoms. Beneath the earth, this life-giving blood of the underworld provides the energy which my roots thirst for. It travels up my roots, through the layers of earth and debris of the city, and fills me with a silver feeling energy. I visualize this energy cooling and calming every cell as it transforms my spiritual self into a being ready to receive the blessing of the sky and the universe. I often feel tingly and chilled.
I imagine myself as a child of the world tree, with arms outstretched above me. My fingers catch the sunlight, and my body is warmed with the warm golden energy of the sun. My vision spirals outward and upward into the deafening quiet and stillness of the universe above. With cold stars as my companions, there is only my true self laid bare to the universe. I gaze upon the beauty of the planet; my most precious home which possesses me with a love unlike any other. She is stunning, and fertile, and cruel. I watch her majesty as storms rumble and lightning flashes across the sky in one region, where the sun shines in others and reflect snow capped peaks. Somewhere down there, my earthbound form lies waiting to receive the energy of the sun, and so I immediately return to my place in the Grove.
I feel the air push my fingers, as the leaves of trees, and the sun’s energy begins to heal and fill me. The golden light pushes its way down, as ink blots to paper, and bleed into the silver calm. At the end of the meditation, I feel the earth in my core pulsing with the rhythm of nature and the sky raining down upon me singing the ancient song of the universe.
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