Queen Istiphul
The following information is available. Istiphul is a Queen at another dimension on Earth and has cosmic consciousness and memory about the total history of Earth. She has responsibility about the oceans of the Earth and all inland waters and rivers on Earth. She has also a responsibilty for the Earth magnetic field. She has an open mind and like to learn new things. She also has knowledge about Earth computer system and the architecture of the internet. She has the ability to hack into Earth computer system from her dimension directly. In one occasion she hacked the central server at Google in order to increase search ability to certain documents about merpeople on the internet. She can be contacted trough telepathy, meditation and channeling.
Her name can be written with this cosmic symbol.
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The history of Istiphul. Istiphul’s Personality She can also influence the
actual electrical impulses within the physical body and the psychological or magical aspects of electricity
within the body which relate to will and to
power. In this body she holds the memories of the entire planet as well as the
memories of all the creatures she has met and joined energies with. This body is
part of her immortal structure. Her Buddhic body. This body connect her with the energy source belonging to the creator of this
cosmos and give her cosmic consciousness about this cosmos. Her Atmic body. This body connect her with the creator of the
superuniverse an give
her cosmic consciousness at a spiritual level and about the structures within the
superuniverse itself. On
the Atmic plane (Energy plane 7) the souls of all living creatures connects. This body is a part of the Akashic body of this universe. The Akashic body
of a universe record all event during the development of the universe as 4
dimensional patterns. This enables a ability to time travel back in time to study
historic events in every location within the universe with inner abilities.
Introduction to the Undine Queen Istiphul by William
R Mistele
Franz Bardon’s description of Istiphul is short. He mentions that she teaches
how to see the past, present, and future though using water. Also, how to create
and to diminish love. And that she is a master of erotic arts and can often bind
unwary magicians by her beauty. More about Istiphul and her influence.
Istiphul did not always possess the empathy she now has. She acquired it. Once
long ago she was an undine who had a feeling for the depths of the seas and for
the magnetic fluid and the magnetic field which is the energy underlying them.
Precisely when this was is a little hard to determine since on the nature-planes
on a energy-plane 2 level
(forth dimensional perspective) there is no space and time as we understand
these things here in the physical world. But, for the sake of perspective and to
clarify the relationship between our world and the higher dimensions, my sources
tell me this happened about three hundred and fifty
million years ago. In other words, this undine queen has been around for
a long time.
It happened like this: one day the consciousness of the Earth appeared to
Istiphul. And as is the nature of the undine realm and as occurs between any two
undines who draw close, the energy of the aura of the planet began to flow
through Istiphul so that there was no separation any longer between them—what
the planet consciousness was feeling in her innermost being Istiphul was feeling
as well.
After a while the planet consciousness disconnected. But Istiphul knew what she
had felt. Yet there was no way of describing such a thing. Evolution in our
world and within the world of mermaids had not yet invented the ideas, purposes,
or feelings that can attune themselves with an ecstasy that is so great it is
one without separation with anything that exists.
And that is pretty much how things would have remained—an experience not without
meaning but without definition or the ability to express itself through any
action, thought, or intention. But you see our planet is not like so many other
planets in this galaxy. Even at that time there was a divine council of great
spiritual beings (who have absolutely nothing to do with anything like a Great
White Brotherhood or group of ascended masters). This council was beyond the
knowledge of the masters who would later appear on Earth.
And this council’s commission was to watch over the unfolding evolution of Earth
on every level and in every aspect. They were simply enjoined to obey a higher
command: See that the evolution of the Earth unfolds in accordance with the laws
of nature but also in compliance with the mysterious purposes of the greater
universe.
What these “greater purposes” were the council members were not exactly sure.
You see, interpretation, discretion, and creativity operate in all realms.
However, almost immediately, the council members noticed that the planet goddess
(the primordial spiritual consciousness that underlies planet Earth) had
appeared to an undine named Istiphul. And the conversation between them went
like this:
“Look! The planet goddess has imprinted her own aura upon this
mermaid. Though a
spirit of water, the mermaid’s astral body now vibrates with the astral body of
the entire planet in its mystery and in its beauty.”
“But she remains a mermaid. There is no capacity in her consciousness to reflect
upon or give expression to this beauty that is now within her.”
“Do we have any other creatures on the three lower planes who have had a similar
visitation from the planet goddess?”
“There is nothing. Not one.”
“What are we to do? The harmony of the planet has been disturbed. New directions
for evolution must be considered.”
“But these paths are as yet beyond the power of our vision or imagination.”
“Let us therefore give this mermaid whatever skills she needs so that one day a
race might appear on Earth that will have the opportunity to learn from her
about her beauty and ecstasy and in so doing create a new destiny.”
“I shall give her an understanding of the magnetic fluid so that she might
master it and come to embody it beyond all other beings.”
“I shall give her the desire to love so that the celebration of the beauty of
the universe might be expressed through her love.”
“And I shall breathe into her etheric body the vibration of all the waters of
the earth so that in the fullness of time she might accomplish her purpose: of
being one with all water on earth in full consciousness and ecstasy even as the
goddess is now one with all things.”
“In this way, the foundation shall be laid to fulfill the intentions of the
planet goddess who herself embodies the greater purposes of the universe: one
day a member of some future race shall appear on Earth and reciprocate
Istiphul’s love by simply doing what every true lover does: “to feel what the
lover feels.”
Her Physical Body
Undines are invisible to most people. But because of their strong ties to water
in nature, they have a physical presence in our world. Istiphul’s physical body
is extremely attractive.
She looks young, slender, in her teens or early twenties. But she has probably
been around for more than 350 million
years on Earth. Her eyes are blue green. They are
shining and inviting. But in them you can see if you look carefully all the
oceans of the earth looking back at you through them.
Her smile is innocent and flirtatious. But if you pause and notice the effect of
her smile on your nervous system you may feel that you are amid a lightning
storm at sea with raging flashes exploding right next to you. Except they are
not outside of your body. These impulses are occurring within your nervous
system.
Her hair is dark, long, and wet. If I were to move my fingers through it I
awaken lying on a tropical beach relaxed and at ease. I notice there are no
thoughts within my mind. There is only the smell of her hair and of the sea. The
rolling and breaking waves singing in my heartbeat and bloodstream. I am not
abandoned. She is lying next to me.
Her appearance can be like that. She has the
ability to shape shift, so she can also appear as a young woman with long blond
hair and blue-green eyes. When she visits other planets she can shape shift into a
beautiful appearance that present a race on that planet. A
young girl but also pure archetype. The maiden with the aura of a goddess. Let
me try to describe the vibrations in the different aspects and levels of her
being.
Her attraction is like a force field drawing you to her. You feel like you want
to be connected or joined to her.
Her attraction creates great tension in the air. But this tension is the like a
high voltage wire—it is conducting energy or circulating energy between the two
of you.
In another sense, her beauty is just the ordinary attraction any young, nubile
woman has. But you would have to amplify the woman’s attractive power many
times. If you somehow could join into one twenty or thirty of the most beautiful
women on earth, you would then catch a glimpse of this kind of attractive
beauty.
Being near to her every cell in one’s body feels a connection and desire only to
draw closer to her. It is like a force of gravity. Except gravity is cold and
impersonal. The force is custom designed to synchronize to you individually.
Standing ten feet away from her it is like feeing the distance between you is
contracting or collapsing. Instead of ten feet you feel she has become five
feet, three, and then two feet away. Space shrinks. Separation dissolves. It is
the way perception works in her presence.
Her body senses automatically the magnetism in the sea, the clouds, and the
earth. She can draw into one place and shape that magnetism for different
purposes. Her body and form are an expression of this power.
We can ask, What kind of mentality has kept an undine like Istiphul from being
known to humanity. It does not matter if it is the first century of
Christianity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Age of
Enlightenment, the nineteenth or twentieth century. The attitude is the same. It
goes like this:
“We all know that a woman takes part of a man into herself, unites with it, and
then brings forth a new living being into the world. This is perfectly clear.
This part of life. We accept it.
“But do not ever suggest even for a moment, even in your dreams, that women have
a feminine power within that can do the same for a grown man—take his will, his
masculinity, and all the abilities of mastery he possesses and transform them to
the same degree she can do with his seed.
“To even think such as thought is absolutely forbidden. We do not want to know
about it. We do not want anything in our culture or music or literature or
religions to suggest it. To bring this knowledge forward and to reveal it to the
world would risk the destruction of our present
civilization, but it can make a better one in the future.”
There you have it. That is a fairly accurate summary of the bias in Western
civilization and the unconscious, unspoken but agreed upon assumption that the
world is not ready for the knowledge of an undine like Istiphul. The poets,
artists, and musicians have been in agreement with the theologians, reformers,
and scientists in this matter. Rational, intellectual, academic consciousness
can not deal with or approach in any safe manner the powers of attraction that
Istiphul possesses. This is needed now because academics are usually
locked to mathematic formulas and can't view the world outside this perspective.
In this way the academic society is obstructing the development of a higher
developed human civilization. The power of Istiphul is needed to dissolve that.
Let us make the example more personal. The young man is lying in bed having made
love to his lover. She places her hand on his hip. Fine. We all know this
experience. If a man is very lucky, she places her hand on his body with the
same hunger he places his hand on her body. Desire and connection are expressed
in the touch.
But let her place her hand on his body and spontaneously begin taking away the
pain she feels inside of him. She does not think about this. It is in the touch
of hand on his skin. She simply knows in her soul how to do this.
But the man senses that what she is doing is different than her other
interactions with him. He does not mind her sensuality and pleasure as long as
he is the one in charge of awakening and directing it. He doesn’t mind her
receptivity to him and her rapport as long as it serves to strengthen his ego
and will power.
But this touch is different. It moves directly soul to soul and body to body
beyond the sphere of rational thought and the well-defined social and gender
boundaries set forth by society. He only needs to look at her to convey that
feeling that she has just invaded and violated him in some unspeakable manner.
It is just like the child who tries to tell his parents that he sees ghosts or
talks to spirits or sees colors and aura around people. The child learns by how
upset the parents are not to discuss these things again. In the same way, women
learn to turn away from the vast depths of feminine power that exist within
them.
I have seen this again and again. Women with great feminine powers know
automatically that certain things are simply forbidden. Let women acquire every
single skill and career that men used to reserve for themselves. But women
should not be exploring the feminine in ways that our entire civilization has
been bent on destroying.
Another example, I have met a number of women who can intuitively tell what is
happening to their lovers. She can tell if he is happy or sad, the kind of
events and interactions going on with him when he is away, and even to some
extent what is going to happen to him.
Such women intuitively know not to discuss this with anyone other than perhaps a
psychic. The implication is that the man’s will is not completely independent.
She can tell what is going on beneath his will, surrounding his will, and also
how well he is using it.
It is not just like being a little boy again and having a mother glance at you
and know instantly what you are up to. It is different. It is having a woman’s
consciousness inside of you and a part of you. This is what is forbidden in our
civilization.
For Christianity, only God should have that power. For science, nothing should
interfere with the clarity of a rational mind to analyze its situations. Even
for artists, it is okay to check your self into a mental hospital or drug
addiction rehab center, but this feminine power is not okay--a woman should not
feel what you feel and take away the pain—that would mean a change
of art as the Western world knows it.
If in Hamlet, Ophelia could counsel Hamlet and say, “The ghost is real. The King
really did murder your father. And you are going to have to face up to your
task—you will have to risk a civil war to establish justice in the kingdom. If
you are going to be a man, choose now: do what you have to do.”
Why that would mean the real drama in life and in art takes place within the
soul and heart. It is not found only after an individual acts in the outer
world. Our world has not been ready for this kind of inner knowledge or for this
level of perception into human motivation and self-awareness.
Istiphul embodies in her physical being this feminine power of magnetism and
incomprehensible beauty that our civilization has forbidden. How can I then
describe these things so openly when in prior ages Istiphul could not even enter
human consciousness?
Times change. I am commissioned to reveal these things.
There is enough genuine spiritual powers of the masculine in the world that it
is time to bring back and unite the masculine with the full power of the
feminine. This is needed in order to balance the world or, as Krishna and others
would say, “In order to preserve light on earth.”
Sex itself is rather dramatic. There is a moment in making love when lovers
become pure consciousness. You no longer have an identity. You are out outside
of your self and a part of another. This is called ecstasy. Part of the man
leaves him and joins with the woman.
Now then, take that image and make it into a symbol of a spiritual experience.
Istiphul takes not the physical seed within the man but the element of light and
vision—she senses what he is to become. She takes that “seed” of the spirit
within him and joins herself to it to give birth to a new being. She transforms
a man in every way into something far better than what he could ever imagine.
That is the power Western civilization has wished to deny to women. It is every
bit as ecstatic as sex but far more powerful in its ultimate transformation.
Like sex, it shatters your every day life, your routines, and sense of your own
identity. It joins you to the natural processes within nature in all their depth
and beauty.
John Nash in the movie, A Beautiful Mind, tries to get a girl in a bar to skip
over the process of flirting and move on to what he says to her—“an exchange of
bodily fluids.” This move does not work out for him. The girl slaps him and
walks off as his friends joke about how well he was doing until he opened his
mouth.
When you are next to Istiphul, sex is not at issue. There is an exchange of the
magical electrical and magnetic fluids of the masculine and feminine spirits.
Like sex, your attention is focused on each other. The physical world vanishes.
One’s identity vanishes. You are in a magical realm. Time is suspended.
The only ting in your awareness is this light within you and how it is being
nourished, received, contained, sheltered, and amplified through all the powers
of bliss, pleasure, ecstasy, rapture, and wonder. If you can not go into these
states of awareness, you do not want to go near Istiphul. It happens because
nature itself contains this process and she embodies it in her body.
From time to time I have been able to show women I have known how to use this
same kind of energy. Some women possess astonishing psychic and magical gifts to
transform others though magnetic touch. But once they follow my directions and
produce amazing effects, they quickly lose interest and do not pursue it. The
entire world does not want them to do so. And as all the wise men of our world
agree, these woman sense that it is simply too dangerous to acquire these
abilities.
Imagine if women through touch or by using psychic ability were to focus on a
soldier returning from the war who has post traumatic stress disorder. Imagine
that such a woman healer could get inside not just his memories but his brain
and nervous system too. And imagine that she could take away that pain and
stress returning him to normal life free of the residual tension of war that
unexpectedly at any time can be reactivated in his nervous system.
If women could do that then they would not have to stop there. They could enter
into the minds of the world leaders who caused the war in the first place and
heal them. Women have the ability to end wars on Earth.
I tell women who possess these abilities about this possibility. But they think
only in terms of helping this individual or that individual. The idea of
reducing the suffering of millions of people assumes just too much
responsibility.
They do not have that ambition. They do not wish to exercise that degree of
will. They do not seek power. Perhaps they feel that power of that nature
reduces femininity into a male egotistical action. I do not know.
I do know about the ideal of eliminating war. I know that women have an
essential role to play in making this ideal reality.
It takes a community of artists, magicians, musicians, writers, and healers to
create a psychological space in which this kind of feminine energy is welcome,
appreciated, and held in high regard. This is not a warm, cuddly New Age kind of
thing. We are talking about a feminine power so great it can change human
destiny and the course of history, leading us in another direction altogether.
One wise man told me to stop using female models to represent undines in my
photography. He said he was telling me this because my writing was so evocative
that I should not allow the beauty of the words to be contaminated by an
inferior form of artistic endeavor. For him, real women do not have the ability
in their souls to represent undines.
I told him there was no point in writing a book on undines unless women learn to
acquire all the powers and abilities undines possess. My book is not fantasy
like Rowling’s books that are meant to entertain by taking us into a real of
pure fantasy—how cute and entertaining her writings are. Such nice descriptions
and art. No, my book is for real women. It offers them power that they have
never possessed before. To do this one has to assume risks. I am asking women to
discover the feminine powers hidden within them.
Her Etheric Body
For human beings, the physical body produces biochemical energy. This surplus
energy is available for us to do things with. We think, we act, we do things.
The etheric body is made up of this vital energy or life force. If you have a
lot of vital energy, you may feel like climbing a mountain, going dancing, or
getting out and doing something physical with your self. It is a kind of get up
and go feeling.
Istiphul’s etheric body has a different feeling. Its vibration is like feeling
one with all waters of the earth. This includes the feeling of the seas giving
birth to life on earth.
The waters she feels one with are not the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It is not
the Sea of China, the Gulf of Mexico, or the N. and S. Poles.
Think of one great ocean encircling the planet as in perhaps The Great Sea.
Istiphul’s etheric body has this vibration. It is an intuitive and psychic
awareness of the oceans of the Earth and all other
waters as well—the lakes, the inland seas, the rivers and streams, the water
tables, the rain, the water falls, etc.
Sitting here meditating within the vibration of her etheric body is to extend
one’s awareness outward into all of these things. But this is not just a present
awareness of the oceans as they are now. It includes the history of water on
Earth. Once the entire world was covered in one vast sheet of
ice. She also remembers this.
There is a science fiction story/movie about space explorers in the future
traveling to another planet with water covering its entire surface (from
Stansislaw Lem’s novel, Solaris). In the story, the scientists discover that
the planet of water is intelligent. It tries to communicate with the scientists
by creating people who embodied the scientists’ deepest unfilled dreams and
needs. The scientists were not ready for such an inner psychological journey and
sought to destroy the gifts that had been given them.
You do not need to turn to science fiction for such an encounter. Istiphul
embodies this consciousness of all the waters of the earth within the very
vitality of her body.
A few days ago, I met a girl who has a degree in oceanography. When I probe her
mind it seems clear that she views the oceans in terms of statistics, scientific
studies, maps of the ocean bottom, ecological niches for marine life, currents,
the movement of continents, etc.
No where and at no time during her degree program in college did the professor
say,
Now class, before you graduate, I want you just for a few moments to experience
the oceans of the world within your own consciousness. Close your eyes. Relax.
Now feel that you are in this moment extending your awareness through all the
oceans of the earth. There is no separation between you and the object of your
study. Every fish and form of marine life in the ocean now exists within you.
Pass beyond thoughts. Enter the realm of awareness through which you feel the
vibration of water as it encompasses the planet.
If such a class assignment existed, we could call it an introduction to
Istiphul’s etheric vibration.
Another way to approach this is to focus on your own etheric body. First you
focus your awareness on everything you can sense of your physical body:
breathing, the movement of your diaphragm, your heartbeat, the pressure on your
skin, digestion, the feel of your muscular system, your feet, legs, arms, neck,
etc.
Then you try to sense the vitality produce by the biochemistry and metabolism of
your physical body. If you take a deep breath, you may notice an increase amount
of energy, a readiness to act, in your physical body. Screen out all sensations
and perceptions relating to the physical organism and retain the sense of the
readiness to act and you are close to vitality itself.
The etheric body can be imagined in the form of the physical body but empty
inside. What is there is vitality, life force, the free energy in your body that
you direct according to your purpose. There are nuances such as the difference
between the vitality of the stomach, the chest, the legs, etc.
But you can also sense one united field of vitality within the whole inside of
the body. If you imagine cold water inside your body and that it has a magnetism
that is highly attracting, receptive, and able to draw things into itself, then
this is close.
For Istiphul, the feeling of her etheric body is this watery magnetism. Except
there is this difference. Though she may have the form of a woman, she feels as
if her etheric body extends though all the waters of the Earth.
Anything that water on earth touches she feels as if she touches it also.
Anything that has water in it she can feel also.
With Istiphul’s etheric vibration within my own etheric body, I try imagining
someone. Immediately, I can sense this individual’s aura, body, soul, emotions,
etc. If I ask a question such as, Why does this individual feel as she does
about such and such, it is as if that feeling is my own. I can understand
because I am inside of it.
If I ask, How would this individual respond to such and such, I get a clear
sense of that also. Again, the other’s feelings appear within me even though I
imagine this person in front of me. The two of us are not separate systems of
energy. For Istiphul, two separate beings are united by and a part of one
encompassing magnetic energy field.
In other words, Istiphul’s aura is like the magnetic field around a magnet. If
you get near the magnet, its fields of force automatically operate within and
flow through you. The same with Istiphul. She has intelligence and yet it is the
energy of nature operating within and through her.
I know women who have this precise ability of Istiphul’s. But again, they are
extremely hesitant to explore it or apply it. They sense that to do so is
overreaching what is natural and safe. But Istiphul’s ability is itself nature
in its essence. These abilities exist to do such things as offering healing and
for establishing a near divine level of empathy with anyone on earth.
What is it like to perceive the world through an undine’s etheric body such as
Istiphul’s? There is not a lot of concern with humanity. When a magician
contacts Istiphul, from Istiphul’s point of view, the contact is fairly shallow
and at most temporary. Humans do not live long. Their concerns are brief and not
very profound. They do not perceive the seas with any depth or wisdom, not like
an undine at all.
Istiphul finds something like a small bay at night beneath the full moon with
waves breaking on the shore and a current circling around the bay to be an
enjoyable experience. It is relaxing and enchanting. It is a place that
nourishes life. It is like a beautiful piece played on a piano. The bay is an
artistic achievement.
The North Pole—sitting with her feet in the water in a small bay in twenty below
zero weather, again, during a long winter’s night. It is peaceful and calm. It
is a stillness filled with dreams of beauty and love. It is sweet and kind. It
is gentle and serene. It is a way of being without having to do anything in
order to feel pleasure and delight.
The waves of the open sea: there is rhythmic motion, the wind and the waves
dancing together. The white caps, the foam blown from the waves’ crests—it feels
like it is the wind blowing through her own hair. It is very intimate.
Every lake has its own songs it is singing. She hears them. A lake reflects its
surroundings into itself. A lake’s songs are like a heart softly pounding.
A thunderstorm at sea is exciting, the lightning striking sets the skin
tingling. A level five hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico—She feels the low
pressure in the air, the water rising in the storm surge flooding inshore.
But hurricanes in her mind never last long. They are there and then they are
gone. Just when you get to know the clouds’ cries. The way they take form and
circle around, and the howling wind, the storm dissolves. It loses its force and
falls apart. Waves rise and fall. It takes an effort to make them roll. But the
wind is fickle. It changes its mind in an instant and other than the trade winds
it is never constant.
What would an undine like Istiphul want in a human lover? Like any lover, she
would like a man who knows her own heart. One who searches her soul to discover
her deepest secrets. Who is there to share in all that she holds dear. Who will
walk beside her and see what she sees and feel what she feels.
In the process of accomplishing just these things, she knows there will come a
moment when she and the man have become one being. For Istiphul, this would
fulfill an ancient dream the earth herself holds in her heart. For Istiphul,
when man or woman accomplishes this, nature in its beauty, essence, and magic
will no longer be separate from human history. Our two separate evolutions will
then work together in harmony.
Her Astral Body
This is a very loving sensitivity. Once again, the feminine has a natural and
divine role to play in unfolding all masculine paths of spirit and development.
The innermost essence of men and women is interwoven together--the way the seed
requires the earth to take birth; the way the sun is the center of the earth’s
orbit; the way the stars are held in the embrace of infinite space; day and
night together in rhythm with the cycles of the moon determine the seasons of
life and the birth of new light on earth.
If the masculine is overshadowed by the feminine, then the mind is lost. If the
feminine is controlled by the masculine, then the heart is lost.
Join the magnetic field of Istiphul’s physical body and the all-embracing
awareness of the waters of the Earth in her etheric
body: What you then get is great sensitivity to the inner life in another being.
She modulates her own energy with great precision to nurture and to insure that
the innermost vision within the other comes into being.
Romantic love sees two people loving and caring for each other. They are deeply
involved. If they do it well, the needs of one are the needs of the other. This
description focuses on the bonding. It is oblivious to the inner life hidden and
yet unfolding within them.
Istiphul is all about what is hidden in the innermost core of your being. What
is hidden is perfectly clear to her. To love is also to insure that the other’s
life is fulfilled without regard to one’s self. Romance does not carry that
degree of unselfishness or detachment. Istiphul’s love is the tender, sweet love
of the maiden, the nurturing, protecting love of the mother, and the wise,
prophetic love of the crone all rolled into one without separation.
If you love another person, you would probably like the relationship to develop
so it reaches the point where the two of you feel a part of each other. It is an
inner connection. It’s a feeling of being joined from within. It is like an
artesian well constantly overflowing from the depths of both souls flowing
through each other.
The feeling of being joined to another is one of the most precious gifts of
life. Istiphul like the spirits of Venus are quite clear on this point. It is an
experience of the sacred that reveals and unfolds the paths leading to
perfection.
Love is not just wants and needs, desires and possession. If you can remain
unselfish amid the pleasure, passion, the bliss, and ecstasy, then life grants
you special insight. It gives you the keys that open the doors to the divine
mysteries.
To be very clear, what Istiphul’s energy does is to create an inner sacred space
in which two are joined as one. The astral plane is a domain of images and
concrete situations similar to those that appear within dreams. Within a dream,
an individual experiences the events as if they are real. All the normal
emotions are present.
A dream can just take you further or put things together in ways that everyday
life often does not. In life, you can put your hand on another’s arm and feel
there is rapport. With Istiphul, the feeling of rapport is such that both of you
sense that the feelings within the one are the same as the feelings within the
other.
Once again, the development of science and the modern personality required
consciousness to attain a high degree of independence from its environment.
Rational thought and analytic thinking may require
detached observation and the systematic organization of knowledge into a
conceptual system. And so we have turned our backs on the magic of empathy and
the development of telepathy.
Because of this we have closed our minds to Istiphul’s
way of loving. In a support group for any kind of addiction or codependency, the
politically correct approach is that you have to assume responsibility for
yourself. No one else can do this for you. If you say your feelings depend on
another person, then you are weakening your own will and ability to make clear
choices. In context, this cognitive emphasis on the autonomy of the ego has an
important role to play in self-development.
On the other hand, life is also when endorphins are set in motion and two people
falling in love will often say things like: I never felt fully alive until I met
you; I feel like we have always known each other; I can not imagine living my
life without you.
Or, poetry in its study of first hand experiences says things like this:
As I place my hands on each side of your waist
Gently moving down across the curve of your hips--
I find myself in a dark forest at night
Following the sound of one bird singing
Singing to me of a dream
I let fly away from me, escaping from my life to be free,
But now it has returned, charmed by your beauty
And by this touch upon your hips in this night of quiet ecstasy.
If you held me within your heart
Winter would no longer be cold
And ice and snow
Would be warm to the touch.
So it is with lovers—
As one stream
Their souls like water
Flow in and through each other.
To summarize the above poetry, there is a time to be separate and independent,
to set up and to defend personal boundaries. There is also a time to cross over
and to overcome all boundaries in order to join as one.
Love is such a time and a season of life. It is not knowledge of the external
world. It is a celebration of the wonder, joy, and mystery of being alive. And
it is the power that transforms both the inner and outer worlds.
To put it simply, though rationality, analytic thinking, independence and
autonomy are used for
solving problems in life, love holds the keys to the mystery of life. It is easy
to forget this in our day and age. It is easy to deny this after two thousand
years of Western civilizations whose development has taken us in a completely
different direction.
In the cosmic letter CH (see my essay on CH), there is a point that comes when
an individual is free to choose for himself the spiritual womb through which he
is to be reborn. The spiritual matrix is a joint creation between the
individual, gathering together all the sources that inspire him, and akasha—the
realm of spirit that oversees and insures all paths of spirit. You have to ask
questions like, “What do I need in order to become the spiritual being I wish to
be?”
The same is true in love. There comes a time when two individuals get to create
the spiritual matrix through which their love for each other grows and is
perfected. A great opening question in marriage counseling is to ask, “Tell me
about when you first met?” Even couples separating with great hostility can
still recount with pleasure the magic in those first moments they spent
together.
What we do not ask in marriage counseling is the question, “Share with me the
vision of the quality and depth of love you seek to attain with each other.” Or,
“Tell me what your relationship would be like if the two of you had learned to
meet each other’s deepest needs?”
Our psychology simply can not ask these questions because it has no
understanding of this kind of empathy. For Istiphul, the need to defend personal
boundaries is never a problem. She feels one with all waters on earth. Feeling
one with another is the most natural of things for her.
Water flows. It adapts. It embraces. It gives of itself and receives in equal
measure exchanging energy freely back and forth. Sensing what is within another
and joining with it is simply water in its sacred power. Does water need to
justify its ability to flow, to give and to receive? No. Neither does love.
If I focus on another person with Istiphul’s astral vibration inside of me,
slowly and gradually I feel my astral body entering the woman’s astral body. In
a gentle way, I begin to sense her life from within. I sense her memories as if
they are my own.
At the same time, I view her life from the point of view of a guardian angel.
From this position, I ask, What is the most natural way possible for this person
to grow so that her life becomes whole?
And now a third things happens: I offer her my energy, my experience with life,
and my vision to whatever extent she wishes or desires to use them so that she
can feel more alive. If she desires, she can see her self or her situations
through my eyes. If she wants, she can feel love as I love with my heart.
If she wants my will, it is hers. If she wants my magical abilities, she is free
to use them instantly. There is no force or invasion here. No attempt to
intervene or to suggest. Only a free offering of oneself.
And if she wishes to join with my heart so that we would never be a part, I am
ready to give this gift also according to her desire and her need to join with
another to fulfill her dreams. No one has ever sought this from me. And no one
has ever sought to ask this of Istiphul either. It is not a romantic thing. It
is a way of being.
Another individual. As aspect of magnetic love is its ability to get inside of
you and renew you from within. It is not a one time event. It is not confined to
lovers. Like a mother or spiritual guide, it can get inside of you and offer to
renew you, sustaining a feeling of well-being and inner peace that continues
your entire life.
There is a difference between the stages we go through in life. There is a
difference between our inner emotional life and the outer events of our life
during these stages. There is difference between our personalities, our
innermost desires and dreams, and also the spirit within us.
Magnetic love can sense clearly and encompass in acceptance and wisdom all these
different aspects of ourselves. In this sense, it is like a companion on a life
long journey. It is a spiritual guide. It is a confidant and a trusted advisor
offering the understanding we may never get from others.
It is an empathy that embraces all that we are and offers support so that in our
own time and in our own way we can reconcile and bring together in harmony the
different things that we are. Istiphul astral vibration offers this empathy. I
sense my self doing it right now as I visualize and connect to another person.
The woman has great darkness within her and great light. I encompass both. I
feel within both aspects of her self. Within me as I do this there is no fear.
No anxiety. Only a tender understanding and calm embrace like a friend who will
be there forever as long as she needs me.
It is not getting on the phone and talking though we do that as well. It is a
heart to heart connection, a feeling that our lives flow in and through each
other.
All the same, Istiphul is still an undine. To feel and sense this kind of
empathy, you need a feeling for water—introspection, inner calmness,
sensitivity, an awareness of the universe of emotion that exists within us, a
desire to connect to others, to love, to share, to nurture, to envision the
best.
Without these things, this empathy does not thrive. As I think of about fifteen
different people, Istiphul points out the two individuals who she feels
comfortable with because these women have water in their auras. One is like a
sister. And another Istiphul says has a great capacity to embody the sea within
herself but it is not yet her time to awaken to what is within her.
Istiphul is more detached and objective than a scientist when she studies
another person’s astral body. She points out--these things are what the person
can do and these things are what the person can not do. Istiphul can clearly see
the emotional limitations and restrictions that govern individual responses.
The other thing about her astral body is that it is different from a human
woman’s astral body. It is feminine to an extreme degree in being completely
passive. It receives into itself and responds to what it is connected to.
Istiphul has no agenda. She simply uses all her skills to bring to fruition what
is inside of another. She does not try to remake them or get them to do or be
something they are not. She is not after using the other person in some way to
meet her own desires or needs. Her astral body has one purpose: to see clearly
and to fulfill the innermost desires and dreams within another.
Many women would consider this to be a tragic state of affairs. But you have to
consider who you are dealing with. Istiphul is joined to all of water on earth.
She brings immense magical abilities to her work. You could consider her an
artist who creates beauty from what is hidden within others. The need to defend
personal boundaries in order to define identity is not part of her experience.
Her Mental Body
As compared to the pure receptivity of the etheric and astral bodies, Istiphul’s
mental body is extremely active, powerful, and dynamic.
Istiphul’s basic ability here is that she aligns and modulates her own magnetic
field of energy in such a way as to heighten the power within another
individual. She takes desire and brings it to its full intensity and power. She
takes an inner vision, some secret need or dream or potential, a secret talent,
a latent ability within the other person and intensifies and empowers it so that
it is seen and experience with great clarity.
As an undine, Istiphul does not directly use electricity. But she can use her
magnetic field so as to control and amplify the electricity in another
individual. She is one and inline with the magnetic field of Earth. This
gives her the ability to sense all the space weather within the magnetic field
of Earth. She can sense the influence from other stars in the galaxy when it
touches the magnetic field of Earth. In general she can feel everything that
influence the Earth magnetic field. Seen from a higher dimensionally reality,
the magnetic field of Earth is like a living dynamic ocean surrounding the
entire planet. It has waves and tides like the ocean. In ancient times the
air transport used the magnetic field of the Earth for levitation and flying. The
vimanas often traveled in a wavelike movement similar to a boat on the ocean and
in some cases the pilots of this airships had to steer the ships according to
local changes of the Earth magnetic field. The dance of the aurora at around the
Earth north and south pole illustrate the live ness of this magnetic ocean.
Istipul has the ability to master magnetism directly. She can change every
stored information on any magnetic media as sound, video and computer tapes as
well as computer hard drives. She has the mental ability to see the magnetic
pattern on a hard drive and to decode what this pattern say and means. By
influencing the naturelaws
of magnetism she can change this patterns at will. This gives her the ability to
hack and edit the content on every computer in the world that use a magnetic
storage device. In general she can influence all technology that use magnetism
in any form.
These are similar to electricity in nature but more subtle. Lighting can strike
in the physical world. There are also psychological and spiritual equivalents of
lightning striking within the soul and the mind as well.
A few examples. With Istiphul’s mental body vibration in myself, the field of
energy around me immediately extends itself into whoever I think about as if the
other is right here in front of me. There an electrical charge in the air. It is
like taking a 12 volt battery and using that electrical potential. But it is not
harmful. Rather it enters directly into the other’s nervous system. It takes
desire and intensifies it and perfects it to it produces pure pleasure beyond
what seems humanly possible.
Franz Bardon describes Istiphul as a master of erotic mysteries. She certainly
has that ability. The effects she produces are more endorphins, dopamines, or
adrenaline which the body releases into the blood stream. She goes directly into
the nerves and takes control over them to produce the effect she perceives is
waiting to be awakened.
But her intentions are not predetermined. She observes what the other needs and
responds to it. If another person is in need of feeling loved in some way, she
aligns the other’s astral body and etheric body in order to produce that exact
love within them in precisely the way the body and soul craves.
On the other hand, if the mystery of the other person is of a spiritual nature,
she is more than equal to the task. She can take the innermost need within the
other, reveal it as a complete vision, and then enliven that vision so you feel
you are one hundred per cent living within it right now. She takes you into the
future that is to be so you can taste it, touch it, meet others within it, and
experience it in every way as being real and alive.
There is a woman who from my point of view is an incarnation of Prajnaparamita,
the goddess Buddhists consider to be “the mother of all enlightened beings.” Her
nature is pure emptiness. Like the Jewish God, she has no form. She is pure
awareness, the source from which the universe arises.
Istiphul’s mental vibration instantly enters this woman and brings that Buddhist
transcendent vision of attainment into a living and palpable experience. What
the Buddhists do not tell you or talk about is that this “nirvana,” this
emptiness is also pure love. It is far more than what Buddhists and others
describe as compassion. It is all-embracing. It nurtures everything in the
universe.
Having this seed of spiritual vision hidden within a person would by necessity
bring along with it tremendous obstacles. A woman born in the Western world in a
major industrial city would have nothing surrounding her in the culture,
religion, philosophy, society, or art that in any way offers support to her
inner abilities. This emptiness is in fact the death of the ego which is so
incredibly important to the functioning of any individual in our society.
Istiphul deals with the problem of the dissolving of the ego as well. She simply
envisions for this person a powerful ability to act, to solve problems, to be
organized, and to lead others. The transcendent function is still present but it
operates by offering pure insight to others so they can be more effective in
their lives.
Whether pleasure, completion, satisfaction, or fulfillment, the electrifying
effect of Istiphul’s mental body is to bring things to their height, to their
greatest power so that everything inside of you is brought into full
consciousness.
Summary
Istiphul uses all four of her bodies at once. Her physical form and presence are
extremely attractive beyond human experience. Her etheric body possesses the
calm, serene, peaceful and relaxing flowing qualities as in being aware of all
the waters of the earth.
Her astral body seeks the fulfillment and completion of the other’s soul needs.
And her mental body possesses the power to intensify and to amply in order to
bring all these things into being.
Together, her effect is similar to what is called an electro-magnetic volt in
magic. You condense into a small space a charge of electrical energy like ball
lightning. And you surround it with a powerful magnetic field. Then you place
within these two layers of magical energy whatever dream, wish, or desire you
want to manifest.
It is like combining the greatest of will power with the greatest of love. The
two working together awaken the vision, animate it so it is fully alive imbuing
it with dynamic power. It then sustains and nurtures this vision with great
sensitivity and love until it fully manifests.
Istiphul’s presence is like a wish fulfilling gem. But it works automatically.
Just being near her produces new experiences. Her magnetic fields flow through
you awakening the deepest feelings of love and peace that contain at the same
time the equivalent of an electrical storm at sea except it is within your
nervous system--dazzling with its continuous flashes of light, sensory
stimulation, and insight.
Her Causal body.
Her Akashic Body
Istiphul say:
If I had an individual akashic body as you do, the
first thing I would do would be to form a community of those who sense that the
sea is full of energy. We would have great festivals and celebrations in which
water as a symbol and as a vibration is understood to be sacred.
We would fully bring into consciousness the ability of water to offer these
gifts to humanity: clairsentience, healing power, the joy of love, the ways of
becoming one with anther, the nature and depths of love as seen from an undine’s
perspective, empathy as a divine ability intended to transform humanity, the
ability to overcome all separation, the undine’s gift of seeing the future, of
entering a dream so it is completely real in the here and now, the ability to
sense the deepest treasures at the core of the self, and of course the ability
to hold in your consciousness an awareness of all the waters of the earth at
once.
I would establish this on earth so that your race tastes in full measure our
beauty and grace. But lacking a human soul, I have no commission to do these
things. I am forbidden to intervene at my own discretion without a human being
acting either as a medium or as a representative of my domain.
How long have the oceans of the earth waited for mankind to discover that they
contain consciousness? How long until your race finds in its own soul the love
and peace my race embodies in every moment of time? How long until each of you
loves with a love that knows how to be one with another without separation so
that each of you understands how to assist the other to attain perfection?
These are the very questions I would ask humans to answer. But these questions
themselves can only be spoken because you are lending me your spirit so I may
speak.
But there is a problem with this and other spirits Bardon describes. He does not
put the spirits in context. He does not provide a global perspective
encompassing culture, religion, and historical civilizations. Consequently, it
is very easy to miss the significance of these spirits.
I sometimes mention that if you change your self you change the world. The
primary purpose of interacting with spirits is to learn from them—to embody
their qualities and powers.
I imagine that if one person were to do this with Istiphul, that is, embody her
qualities and powers, then the course of human history would be changed. And so
this introduction to the undine queen Istiphul:
There was an ancient king known as Solomon who sat on an ivory throne. He was
known throughout the world for his immense wealth and profound wisdom. And
Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines.
But Solomon’s women were not as beautiful nor did they bear such treasures of
spirit from distant lands as those with whom I meditate. You may decide for
yourself as to who has been more inspired by the opposite gender, or who greets
with greater welcome the mystery of love—the king when he wrote The Song of
Solomon or I when I dialogue with the queen of the undines.
Have you heard this tale or even one song of Istiphul, the Queen of the undines?
No? Then let us begin! Istiphul is perhaps the most beautiful creature on this
planet. If it were possible, her beauty would rival what sages and poets
describe as the goddess Dawn spoken of in Hindu mythology—the first feminine
form born of Creation. Istiphul is that spirit of the sea whose touch more than
bliss bestows and whose eyes know secrets no sailor on earth will ever discover
by sailing the seven seas.
In the past, bards neither sang of Istiphul nor mentioned her name aloud—mankind
was deemed too weak to endure such beauty. But my voice is not bound by the laws
governing former bards. And where they would have kept Istiphul for themselves,
I am more generous: I speak aloud and offer my songs to the entire world.
How did I happen to meet such a creature of wonder, so hidden and unknown?
Whenever I gaze at the sea, I feel her presence. Her fragrance is in the wind,
her voice is in the sound of the breaking waves. Her touch is in the spray and
drops of water running down my skin.
To speak with her, to call her forth, is just a matter of opening your senses to
the presence of the sea and following your feelings back to their source. But
this is not to say that such an encounter is without risk. When I first spoke
with Istiphul decades ago, I entered that place of soul some of us know well but
can not define—in quiet moments an uninvited feeling may accost us—an
indescribable sadness fall upon us.
This sadness is perhaps an echo, a reverberation from feeling separated, but we
do not know precisely from what. And the instant I saw Istiphul I said to myself—
I will never meet a woman who is this beautiful.
This thought was like a lightning bolt hurled through an empty void within my
soul, a void her face had just revealed. It spoke of an unnamed loss—a tension
with no release.
And though many others would have fled, thinking this knowledge too forbidden to
behold, I stayed and faced it. Emptiness gripped my soul, and I tasted every bit
of the sorrow that lingers in us from being so distant from nature.
But looking back two decades later, I think I was wrong about the beauty of
women compared to the pure enchantment concealed within nature—for one of Life’s
greatest secrets is that she is full of surprises.
And though I have kept Istiphul’s existence secret for many years, I am now free
to sing of her beauty—so that mankind might be informed of the power of love
hidden within the depths of the sea.
Ah, Istiphul! She is the essence of feminine companionship. When I first touched
her aura with my hand, I realized I had just met a woman who could and would
willingly create out of her inner being and femininity, the perfect counterpart
to all of my desires. She even perceives unknown needs I have not yet discovered
within myself.
My dreams, what I have sought, what I have lost—she comes weaving a spell of
love that harmonizes all that I am. The deepest place within me that I can not
find—she lives there already, shining with beauty that radiates and flows freely
throughout my soul.
But Istiphul is not a fantasy. And it is not that she molds her identity to fit
my imagination. She does not behave like many mortal women who out of insecurity
create something fake to please their mate, surrendering their own will and life
in the bargain, as collateral.
Rather, she is a master of what magicians call the magnetic fluid: the feminine
counterpart to the electric, masculine energy in the universe. Together, these
two elements are a part of every creative act, whether it beconception, the
moment of inspiration in art, or the birth of the universe. When the magnetic
and electric fluids are acting together, Fate (the laws of the universe) comes
forth to bargain and accept them as payment for the changes we wish to make in
reality—so great is their value and their influence.
With magical empathy, Istiphul senses my whole being and uses her beauty to make
me feel complete. She creates a space of love where two souls may find each
other and unite as one. Her great gift and mastery are nothing other than
knowledge all those on earth who have found true love practice and celebrate.
A Secret Longing of the Kings of the Earth
Istiphul is the one for whom the kings of the world have longed to have as their
consort. But their bards, wise men, sages, priests, druids, and Brahmans, at
least those who knew of her, would not disclose her name or reveal her existence—due
to selfishness, yes, but there is more. They were strangely silent as if
something they could not even bring into their consciousness bound them,
forbidding even one song to be written or spoken—Lesthuman evolution take a
different turn from what has been ordained or from a course that moves within
acceptable boundaries.
And so it has been that some bards have had a distinct advantage in living their
lives with an unknown zest, a passion and abandon kings do not possess. But
sensing that this happiness is a real possibility, the kings of old made it
against the law to interfere with the work of bards—they were waiting to hear
songs such as this that it might lighten their woes and replace the darkness in
their souls with songs of mirth and rapture blended.
And so I tell you that if Helen of Troy had been as beautiful as Istiphul, it
would not have been just the Greeks and Trojans but the entire world at war over
the right to kiss her lips. And Lancelot, our knight in shining armor, would
have overcome his obsession with Guinevere, though not many knights would have
been left to quest for the Holy Grail if they had known the name Istiphul. And
forget not that Merlin, too, met his match in Niniane, who made a fool of him
and trapped him under a rock. Yet Niniane was but a mortal woman and could not
compare to Istiphul.
Henry the Eighth would not have embraced Protestant Christianity, nor would he
have pursued so many wives seeking an heir if there had been a John Dee who had
shown the king Istiphul in his magic mirror; no, the king would have lost his
interest in posterity with distractions this ripe.
For that matter, if Gauguin or Michelangelo had met Istiphul, their faces would
have turned white, their hands shaking, and their heartbeats arrhythmic. But
their eyes would not have strayed for an instant. They would have stood for two
days without pausing until they had captured her face on their canvas.
Even Hegel and Marx would have had second thoughts. They would have added a new
twist to the march of the dialectic. They would have insisted there is a place
where both the Geist that unfolds history and the human soul must go in order to
be rejuvenated.
Kierkegaard, too, would have renounced despair and angst had Istiphul’s touch
traced lightning through his bones; that is right, his “fear and trembling”
would have had an entirely different meaning—on this I speak from experience! In
fact, if William Blake had seen Istiphul as more than a blur in the distance his
visions would have rivaled the Prophet Isaiah and the Apostle John.
The sages whose songs originated the Vedas and Upanishads did not know of
Istiphul—barely an echo of her is heard anywhere in the world’s mythologies. For
if they had known her, the poets of India would not have been so fanciful in
populating the celestial realms with such a glittering array of deities. No!
They would have been more empirical and stuck closer to nature as they fashioned
images—their mystical dreams would have been more concrete and filled with the
sounds of waves, wind, rain, and the seas.
And that other child of India, the Buddha—with his gentle, enigmatic, and
transcendental smile—his smile would have been kinder, the compassion more
convincing, had the artists of India sculpted statutes of Istiphulfrom marble
and ivory.
The Tibetans say that the Buddha already knew of Istiphul. The Buddha once
changed his form into that of Kalachakra at the request of King Suchandra, who
was from Shambhala. At that time, the Buddha included Istiphul as one of the 720
entities within the mandala of planetary liberation—though she is known there by
another name and her beauty is not as clearly seen as it is within my poetry.
But my exploration of the four elements on earth would not be complete if I did
not speak of Istiphul. And though until now no bard was free to speak her name
aloud and reveal her beauty to the world, neither seal nor secret may bind or
limit my voice—you see, my patron, Divine Providence, has so ordered it.
Channeling Istiphul
Introduction: Using a Medium
Franz Bardon gives references in his books to using mediums for various
purposes. In the Bible, King Saul has the witch of Endor channel the departed
Prophet Samuel. The deceased prophet appears and answers the king’s questions
accurately predicting the king’s future.
There are various interpretations of this story depending on the assumptions
made by the authors. Though I mention this example, the channeling I discuss
relates to living spirits and not those who are deceased. (Note: In the Bible,
using a medium is forbidden but do not forget that all prophets are mediums
channeling Yahweh.)
Some of the difficulties involving channeling also apply to telepathy: the
nature spirit does not use any human language to think. It existed before
religions appeared on earth. It is not bound by human ethics or morality. It
dwells in a realm of pure power even if the expression of that power is love and
empathy. And it perceives and acts outside of the symbols, rituals, and
activities of human civilization.
Basically, to channel is to find a midpoint or areas of experience shared in
common between the nature spirit and the human being. When I do telepathy, the
spirit and I have the same vibration in each of our minds. I sense through that
vibration how the spirit thinks and perceives. And the spirit uses my
experiences and my understanding of life to express its wisdom and insight.
The test of channeling or telepathy is the extent it generates new insight and
understanding. The goal is to experience something a little further beyond the
familiar boundaries in which you feel or perceive. If you go too far beyond the
familiar, you may end up with something that has no application and no meaning
in our world.
I like to write poems because the poetic imagery helps me capture perceptions
far outside of my daily life. But in a sense, we are all mediums. As the undine
suggests, part of our brain or being is water. If we just focus in and through
that aspect of ourselves, we see the world and can dream it in a completely new
way. The voice of the undine is our own voice when we feel and dream through the
element of water that is in us.
What was extraordinary about this experience for me was that as the woman
channeled I could see the undine Istiphul quite clearly standing about two feet
behind the medium. Istiphul’s beauty is breath taking. It is otherworldly and
absolutely extraordinary.
Location
We are sitting on a balcony of a hotel overlooking the ocean and the beach.
I begin by talking with the medium about an experience I had with water. The
woman immediately set aside her own personality and began speaking as the
undine. When she would pause, I asked questions.
Opening Statement: When I first came to Hawaii, I visited the beach in Waianae.
I floated just outside where the waves break. I then let my body roll over the
waves and they would curl me up and throw me on the beach. Then I would let the
undertow drag me out again. My family probably thought I was losing it. But I
did that over and over.
For three days after that I felt these rolling waves flowing through my body. I
imagine a lot of people do not know how to let go like that. It is no longer you
…
Medium, channeling Istiphul:
If you let go, we can influence you. Our auras pass through you. If you can not
let go, then nothing we are can touch you. Our love fails to reach you.
We teach about beginnings and endings and acceptance. Life and death—the circle
of the earth, the ocean that gives birth—the seasons of life, the rhythms of
change—we flow in and through these things. We flow through your body with every
breath. But to know us, if nothing else, learn this: to let go and to flow.
We accept you as we accept all things. We can cleanse and nurture you and put
you back on solid ground again.
But you will then remember. You will never forget us.
We are the blood in your veins. We are the tears in your eyes. And even earth
holds water. But in the oceans is where you find us. In the pools, on the
beaches, in the rivers is where we sing and dance.
And if you watch the light just so you will see us rise from the sea. But to go
further, you have to feel release; you have to open and to give freely. Then you
sense our receptivity and feel as we feel. Then you will know you are the child
and we are the mother, the lover, and the sister.
But for women we are the ultimate. We are release. We are the tides of life and
change. You come from us and return to us.
It is why the legends are as they are about women and the sea because the women
personify who we are.
We give rituals. We are the origins of the bathes—to come and change in the
moonlight; to remember who you are, who you were, and where you are going. This
is a way to connect with us and to be one with us.
You seek us because you need what we give freely; and you fear the part of you
that is earth--that takes and analyzes, the grandularity [as in grains of sand]
in you is so unwatery. It is not us.
Why are you afraid of the sea? You can not analyze who we are. We come to you
because the part of your brain that is all water receives us. And sings to us
and we sing to you. But you are afraid of the sea. Come swim with us. We have so
much to give. We hold the treasures and beauty in all the waters of the earth.
You will not die by sea. Know this. You will not drown in water. We will take
you and support you and lead you to safety. Do not be afraid of the sea that
reaches over the horizon and stretches between the continents.
On the open sea there is always danger. But look—they (indicating those on the
beach nearby) play in us. They dance in us. But yet it is a few feet out. But
they trust us and we care for them because they love water. We are receptive
like no wife or lover, but we are in all wives and sisters and children.
The laughter of a child is like light on waves. The beauty of women is the gift
of the sea—to feel received and embraced. And yet the unknown dances within them.
So take your children to play in the waves. Dance with them in the water and
show them how to be unafraid.
Feel the touch of water on your skin awaken the water within your body—they
merge and blend in sensations and in feelings. Be with us. Seek us; see us rise
from the sea.
Question: And of love? This is one of your great mysteries, powers, and skills.
Love is the treasure. You may seek it but it can not be found. It is only given.
Love comes when you do not expect it, when you are not thinking about it.
Those who seek love seek to bind us. This is due to your grandularity. But if
you embrace us you will find love everywhere.
Every touch reminds of our embrace and every kiss of our love. We are
unconditional yet demanding as is all love. Love is given freely but it asks for
surrender and to surrender to love is to give up being earth.
Earth is solid. Earth is form. Earth is what separates you from me. But love is
release. Love is surrender.
A woman is ocean and fire and love made whole. Fire cools and melts earth into
liquid form so it can be soothed and shaped into beauty as seen in sculptures in
Athens and Istanbul. All beautiful women of history are earth, and fire, and
water.
When form changes, the memory remains. In the ocean, with us is the repository
of all knowledge.
In love, we are made real. Love is the truth of God as the ocean in all her
forms. Love is knowledge. Love is lust. Love is pain. Love is life.
But love demands. It gives but it demands. It has a price.
Form is unable truly to conceive of love because it is restrained and restricted.
Only those who embody us are able to love with passion and to surrender to the
one who surrenders. In such acts we are found.
Question: And the pure force of attraction that undines possess--as power it can
cause lightning to strike in a storm over the sea?
Why do you question that? Who does not feel the elemental force in love? Even
among ourselves, when we play we are enamored of who we are. We love and are
love.
When we touch, we inspire. Would ugliness do such a thing? It is what we are.
Lightning strikes, particles separate and come together. We are that spark of
light. We are divine. A moment of love is such that its memory can last a
lifetime.
Those who meet us in the flesh and in the spirit are changed forever. Our memory
lasts and spurs you on to greater things.
We are the fire of water. We are inspiration. We are a dream fulfilled.
Question: What things can we learn from you that we may bring back to our world
and offer to others?
Passion. Emotion. Movement--look at the sea.
They ride the tides. We are one with the wind. We are one with the fire. We are
one with the earth. We are one with the air. We are synergy.
A ship on the water is made of and powered by fire or wind. But the ocean is our
body.
We are synergy--all things within all things. The ocean is whole as it contains
all forms and varieties of life.
Undines are the embodiment of love because we inspire the highs of love and the
lows of lust. We are both. We embrace who we are.
(laughing) This body I am using desires to be the sea.
Question: So why hasn’t the human race in history presented more stories about
mermaids and undines.
We do not watch and then intervene to produce results. We are about the
beingness of life that is not quantified. Like women, we are not quantifiable.
We come in dreams from realms that are hidden. Whose sextant can mark the
quadrants of the imagination or chart the kingdoms of feeling? We come to those
who accept us. But if you can not let go, if you can not release control, you
will never know our hearts.
Question: How would humanity be different if undines were a part of our normal
personalities and consciousness?
You would know our depths of love and receptivity. We understand our place in
the world around us. We understand that we are a part of the sea and that as it
is a part of us. It contains and is free. We contain and are free.
Those who are free as we are do not desire control because we control our own
destinies. We make our own decisions. We do not worry who is doing what. As the
ocean, what drop of water worries about the other drop of water? It is all one.
We rage as all things do at times. To know us is to know the cycles of life. To
know us is to know the secrets of dreams. To know us is to know love, to see
beauty in all of its forms.
A coral is a living thing. A shark is a living thing. It is deadly but it is
beautiful as a porpoise is deadly and beautiful but what do you fear more the
porpoise or the shark?
Acceptance that life and death are part of the cycle and that all things have a
purpose and a place.
Acceptance of growth to higher levels. Acceptance of evolution not in the sense
of you must destroy but in the sense of life will win out. Life will find a way.
Life is diverse and death is a part of it.
In the oceans, in nature, when needs are satisfied all things live well. We must
eat. We must survive. But we do not destroy our own kind. Once needs are
fulfilled, all things live together.
The spirit bodies on this planet have been given flesh to experience sensation.
All things must experience seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, smelling, the
senses on a nominal level to appreciate the senses on an extraordinary level.
The colors, the fabrics, to touch, to feel, to experience the sensations. When
we are not physical these are things that we have left behind. Yet we remain
attracted to physical form because it is hard to leave behind to touch, to see,
to hear, to listen.
You have run away from so much. You have forgotten that you are all one. Your
species has a special gift of experiencing the senses and then interpreting and
expressing them.
There was a time in the world when all were artists and they destroyed
themselves because of their art. Ego is not limited to your civilization.
So the gods separated people giving different talents to different people. But
the bards are the reminders; they remember; and we speak to them and they speak
to us and they share us with the world. And if a bard is particularity receptive
and has no fear we manifest to them and they become our avatars.
Question: For some humans the beauty of undines is so great that if the undines
draw close to them they no longer want to return to their own bodies. They will
want to stay in your realm, your kingdom.
We are not responsible for that. We are what we are. If a woman is of a
particular essence she will become one of us and we will teach her and we will
transform her.
We are a gift of life to all. The beauty we possess is not to be bound or
enslaved. It is to be expressed and shared. We push away those who pursue us but
who are unwilling to share their experiences with us. It is not our nature to be
subject to anyone. We are water and only the moon rules our lives.
Question: And sometimes the undines come over and dwell in the bodies of women
to marry men.
All species seek to perpetrate themselves. And as all, we like our beauty
written about.
We are female and are narcissistic, yes, we like our beauty.
And we will dwell in one and we will mate with one and create beauty and it will
go in our archives. We will bring our daughter back to us.
Beauty inspires and we are beauty. Why should we not wish it to be in a form
that will inspire. It is what we do.
We will find one who is appropriate. And we will give one of our own to that one.
The child of the union can choose to stay with you or return to us. There is
free choice in this matter.
Question: Should there be a way found for undines to dwell forever among mankind.
We are already forever. We do not sojourn. We simply live and as water moves
freely into different forms so do we. We go where we wish.
We are among you whenever you see water, even drinking. Drink! You have no water
in you. Let it sooth as it flows down your throat. A touch of the ocean.
We are already among you in your art, in your sculpture. We are among you in
your wife, your mother, and your daughters and your children. We are in the
blood that flows through your brains.
When you drink of this water you drink us. We are in every drop of liquid on
this planet. When we become flesh it is because we desire to inspire. And every
time you see beauty you will see us.
See beauty in all things and see us. We are in the words that come from your
mind through your mouth to your pen. We see what you write and we laugh when you
are out of words and out of art and then you are undine.
Question: Are there any mysteries or kinds of magic that are forbidden to
mankind to learn? Is everything you know available for us to seek?
There are mysteries that can not be contained in a physical body. There are
mysteries of spirit. But this is why beings transform.
When your work is finished on this planet, you go to the next one where there
are new things to learn. Knowledge is vast and beautiful. For an undine,
knowledge is soft and loved and we lust for it.
The pursuit of knowing possesses its own passion. It is fire like the fire in a
lighthouse that draws the ship. It is as air that cools the fevered breeze. It
is earth and rocks.
As we see it, the knowledge of undines is the ultimate. Knowledge dances before
you and once you quench your thirst for one experience there is another to
follow. Light on water contains endless paths of beauty to be explored.
We dance in the waves beckoning you. Come meet us.
You wish to know our deepest secrets. In the near future, we will find a way to
share these things with you. You will meet undines in the flesh and then you
shall understand our nature.
Question: All women can become sensual like undines. This is obvious.
Yes
Question: But not easy. The ego again is the obstacle.
All women are water. The Chaldeans with their astrology changed the perception
of women. Their use of words and images taught men to think of women as equally
made of air, earth, and fire.
But for woman to consider themselves anything other than water is a great
mistake.
We, the undines, are women. In us is the flow of life.
Yet all women can become what we are. When they lose sight of us they forget
their own nature. How can one forget that there is blood flowing through the
body or that feeling can be expressed with tears? We are the blood within women.
Men are different. They are not one with the tides.
That is why a woman who senses the undine within her seeks the ocean. She holds
like the sea the seed of life--the birth of every child is from out of water.
And when she goes through her tides it is as the ebb and flow of the ocean.
Beauty is created and inspired for women to remember the beauty that they were
and the beauty that they are; and an old song only becomes better with repeated
listening.
True, it is the nature of women to seek stability as the ocean seeks the shore.
But if they forget the ocean, they forget how the seasons of life come alive
within and through them. But if they remember they will always be undine.
Question: The sea covers the land that is referred to as Atlantis. Is it time
for Atlantis to come back?
It is always time; it has always been waiting. We have left hints all over the
world. We have left clues. There is writing and there are frescos. There are
bards who sing of these things. And we have been waiting.
We can not tell the time for the returning for the tides of the boundless have
left the hearts of men and women. And so this thing is not known to undines. The
knowledge if found is in the realm of spirit.
We are desire and we desire. And we inspire to bring this about.
But in time you will build it and bring it back. And we shall return also. We
will walk in flesh with others. We will have children and the world will be
beautiful.
Question: What would make a good lover for an undine? If a man were an undine’s
lover, what would an undine want? What would he be like?
My sisters do not like me to speak so much of my loves. Bryon my poet. I like
him.
Words, beautiful words--the man with the little words, the E.E. Cummings, he has
gone and we have sought him and we would like to make him one of us. So we seek
one like him.
Passion. We like passion turned into words like drops of water dancing as a
rainbow upon the horizon. A lover should know how to speak so that the fire in
his heart awakens passion in another.
A lover should celebrate the beauty we are and walk among us as one of us.
I see many entering the ocean. Know that no one will die today on the shores of
this island. We are near; we will protect them.
Question: And the mermen--what are merman for
mermaids?
When Atlantis fell some escaped. We hide them but they are the children of the
ocean. As all sea creatures they are curious, ever ready are they to take form
and walk among you.
They are fascinated by senses and sensations. They remember and are long lived.
They are our children.
There is great suffering on your planet. But sometimes we will help one to
escape the suffering by becoming one of us.
But then they may miss the world left behind. Like a woman among the Silkies,
she becomes enamored of the green land of the pearl of the sea. She lives among
your race to have many children.
Even now they appear.
It is not easy for those caught in desire between land and sea. They are neither
one nor the other but the form is not just ours. And they do not like stone to
contain them.
But they bring us children. And our memory lives on. We are content when beauty
appears even if it is not our form.
Question, What would be a good story if the story is told about an undine. What
should it have in it? What would appeal to you? What are drama and suspense and
life unfolding as a story? You are outside of time but we like closure and
defining events.
But it is continuous--why must it stop? As the sunsets on the ocean, they go on
and on.
Beauty like Venus always comes from the water--look at the light. We are outside
of time but we like your pictures. We sometimes come up and watch you do your
photo shoots.
We like your model, the one with the eyes like the sea. She acts and plays as
one of us.
Make your own happy ending. I like how your model thinks—she likes happy
endings. Struggle, but then greet harmony. To aspire to joy.
I hear the words in your model’s mind—“Never give up.” Some things are worth
striving for.
There must be love. There must be beauty. There must be an idea. There must be
dance. And many good words. In the beginning, desire; in the middle, a journey.
In the end, achievement, not complete but something to build on. If you have
love, you have achieved. If you make beauty, you have become undine. This we
love to see.
Shall we take a break.
(The medium is shivering and as she returns to her own personality, she says:)
I feel like crying.
(Drinking water)
I’m Okay.
Conclusion
I love some of the ideas coming through the medium. I like the idea that for
undines all women are predominately water. And that it was the ancient, male
astrologers who screwed up by presenting women as embodying equally the four
elements.
I like the complexity and element of choice in that there is movement back and
forth between humans and undines; an undine can enter a woman and have children
as a woman. And then the children have choice. They can go either way--the child
one day will decide whether to return to the realm of mermaids or remain among
our race. But while alive, the person has a dual passport permitting entrance
into both lands.
This may make no sense to anyone until you have interacted directly with
undines. Then you appreciate the lure of their domain. Extensive communication
with undines makes it easy to enter their realm.
The undine also commented on one of my models. When I shoot a model on a beach,
I often sense that the undines commenting and exerting an influence. They are
demanding—the girl must love water. If she loves water, then wonderful things
happen during the shoot.
If the model is not acceptable to the undine, the camera may have technical
difficulties. When they like the girl, they lend us some of their energy so the
model let’s go into the flow of the moment.
On Mediums and Anthropology
I have an advanced degree in linguistics. I found linguistics helpful because it
points out that meaning is not just determined by the words spoken. You have to
take into consideration the context of the communication and the intention of
the speaker.
There used to be an idea in linguistics that one language might not be able to
express what is in another language because the lexical items have no equivalent.
For example, some asserted that Eskimo had thirty or more words for the one word
we have for snow.
This assertion could not be sustained. Not only does English have a great many
words for snow, but if there are different kinds of snow, an individual need
only describe each one with an adjective or a sentence or two. And though this
may be longer, you have in effect communicated what you wanted to say.
Here is the problem. What if the native speakers actually perceive and feel
things beyond the reach of people in Western civilization? This question was
never asked by linguists or anthropologists.
Now you have a problem. It does not matter if you use words that precisely
define what is said by the native. There is no way to communicate the meaning
because the Westerner can not experience what is so simple and obvious to a
nature speaker.
Ever attended a Katchina dance among the Hopi Indians? The entire race of Hopi
are mediums. When someone dances wearing a Katchina mask, the Hopi can talk
about when the spirit of the mask is present within the mask. This is no longer
a discussion of language and definitions. We are discussing perception. Hopi can
perceive when the spirit is in the mask.
The first anthropologists who studied the Hopi Indians entered their kivas and
carefully recorded the rituals word for word. These anthropologists had not
first researched and created an experimental model for the study of mediums.
Such topics were and are not a part of university research.
The same is true about the ancient hula dancer in Hawaii. To dance is to evoke
the goddess of the hula, Laka, into oneself. How do you explain how to do this
to a Christian missionary? If the missionary can not understand this, then he
can not understand his own Bible.
In the Bible it states that King Saul prophesized when he came into the presence
of the Prophet Samuel and his company. King Saul was not a particularly
spiritual man. But the Prophet Samuel was known to use dance in order to
prophesy.
From my point of view, what is needed is a spiritual anthropology. You have to
consider such questions as, What is it to be a human being? What are our
possibilities? And what is the range of our perceptions? Without considering
these questions in a rigorous manner free of bias, ideology, and doctrine, it
will be easy to twist and distort one’s observations in order to fit them into
preconceived categories.
On Telepathy and Translation
A good interpreter at the United Nations takes into account the intention in the
mind of the speaker in order to choose the right word and phrase to translate.
The translators will tell you that translating is an art. Translating during the
United Nations Assembly is performing art.
When a spirit, a non material being, communicates with a human being you get a
vibration in your mind. A vibration in your mind you can translate in different
ways. If you take the vibration and use the part of your brain that is visual
you get an image. The same with the other senses: the vibration can be
translated into a note or word; into feeling; into physical sensations; tastes
or smells too.
For example, I can explain to certain women how to place part of their awareness
inside of another person. This is a psychic activity. If such a woman places her
mind within my body, I can experience this in different ways. I may sense her
physical body as my own. But her physical body is not even touching me. In this
case, her presence within me--the vibration--produces physical sensations.
I may sense her soul and her feelings as my own—I feel exactly what she feels;
call that clairsentience. I may be able to speak words that express the exact
thought she is thinking: call that telepathy. I may be able to see things she
experienced in the past and talk about her memories as if I myself experienced
them; call that empathy.
In each example, there is nothing else than a vibration that passes between the
woman and myself. But according to the intent and the strength and qualities of
the one transmitting and the one receiving, you can get a variety of different
results.
When the undine talks through the medium, I am not just listening to the words
spoken. I am sensing the undine’s presence also. So what I “hear” from the words
spoken is a transmission to my brain as well. What is written is inherently art.
We are not trying to express some esoteric experience that occurs among Hopi
Indians or Hawaiians so as to record an oral tradition. We are moving between a
spiritual race dwelling in nature and human beings. There is therefore a greater
degree of difficulty in translating.
All that same, I think as more and more individuals interact with undines there
will develop a body of art, literature, and culture around the experience. And
in particular some of the gifts of the undines will be received and passed on
among us. This is my intention and this is also the intention of the undines.
The Ocean of Love Exercise
In this exercise, we put together physical sensations and feelings. Imagine that
you are in the center of an ocean of water. This ocean extends in all directions
around you. Imagine the water of this ocean as being cool, perhaps blue green,
pure, and flowing.
Now, add to this imagined sensation of an ocean the feeling of love. The water
is a presence that is nurturing, healing, renewing, and fulfilling. It brings to
life whatever it touches. We are now within and part of an ocean of love.
Some will be able to imagine the sensations of water surrounding them but have
difficulty adding the feeling of love. Recall again that the sea brought life
into being and that it sustains life. The magnetic field within the sea offers
us dreams of the way our consciousness can be expressed and extended. Once you
sense the feeling that is inside water, the sea becomes a powerful symbol. It
embodies the sensations and feelings of all-embracing love.
Take a few moments to explore this imagery. Imagine that you are this sea of
love. Identify with this vast field of energy without referring back to yourself
as being in a specific location or even having a bodily form. You are love, and
this love is everywhere.
Now, visualize another person in front of you, someone with whom you are
familiar. Visualize the person’s body as being empty inside. Next, imagine that
as the sea you begin to flow down through the top of this person’s head into his
or her body and out of the person’s feet.
As you do so, sense everything within this person. Your cool, flowing water
heals, purifies, harmonizes, and nourishes. Pain and tension dissolve.
Frustration and unhappiness disappear. The individual feels whole, complete,
happy, and serene. In effect, you are uniting the individual with this sea of
all-embracing love.
As you perform this exercise, retain the feeling that you are the entire ocean.
Your energy and love are inexhaustible and everywhere. As the ocean, you are
pure receptivity, and no obstacle limits your power to flow and to remain pure.
One woman to whom I taught this exercise was able to produce strong sensations
of flowing water combined with love in other people who were in no way psychic.
It took two minutes to teach her the exercise. A minute later, with this simple
meditation she was extending her aura through the body and mind of another
person with effects that were unmistakable.
Another woman said to me after practicing the exercise, “I already do this
everyday with my boyfriend. I just never put it into words the way you do.”
Again, undines feel that they are part of the sea, and the nature of the sea is
love. They also perceive others as being within this sea, and so naturally they
sense what is inside of others. Unlike magical empathy, which requires an effort,
undine empathy is automatic and effortless. There is no focusing of will.
Undines sense what is inside of you. The love that they feel in themselves is
the same that they sense flowing through you.
For undines, there is one energy of life within and animating all beings. Our
religions and mystics sometimes speak of this. Undines embody it.
I have been fortunate to be able to interview women who feel this sea of love
surrounding them in every moment. These women possess undine empathy. Whether or
not you believe in undines, undine empathy is already present in our world and
can be learned by anyone.
A simple version of the ocean of love exercise is to notice when you are around
someone who is tense and frustrated, insecure or anxious. Now, imagine that you
are a small waterfall flowing into a mountain pool. The water again is cool,
flowing, purifying, calm, and serene. The spray from the falls creates a small
rainbow in the air.
You become the falls and the pool. You are not interfering with anyone, but
anyone near you may feel your benevolent influence. The effects are nonverbal,
subliminal, and body to body. It is one thing to seek to love others. It is
another thing to incorporate into your love the power and beauty of water in
nature. This healing power is the undines’ gift to us.
Conclusion
These words are from the story of Istiphul. I put them together to form a poem.
Istiphul’s skill is creating a magical space of love. The ocean of love
meditation has many variations. This is one.
Istiphul
He sensed her fragrance in the wind
Her touch in the spray and drops of water running down his skin
Her voice in the sounds of the breaking waves
No wonder then she appears to him
Speaking words woven from wind and water, out of sky and sea,
Saying,
I have the skill and the will to create a sacred space
Where two separate souls may as one embrace.
On behalf of the human race, he responds,
This is not so easily done.
She persists:
In this moment, by the rhythm of the waves
And their foamy crests, by the ocean’s vast depths,
I exist only to fulfill your needs;
I give of myself that your dreams may be complete,
For such is the power of love—
To fuse the deepest desires in one
With the deepest desires in the other.
Can’t you see that I have taken on form and shape
That you may taste the sea in its intimacy?
He replies,
Though I sense you inside me, part of me, and one with me,
Though I taste what you taste—
That the essence of water is ecstasy,
When you leave me, your love like a spell
Will dissolve and the taste will fade away
Like the light of the setting sun.
This is not about me, about undines, or the sea.
You must search your heart till every barrier
Separating one from another is cast aside forever.
Perhaps if you teach me the magic of water
I might find in myself your receptive grace—
To freely embrace another without restrictions or limitations.
What do you sense in my presence?
I sense the open ocean—the sounds, scents, and sensations
Of waves stretching from horizon to horizon.
There is more, for in love there is no separation.
Relax, let go, flow
Feel at the core of your being the foam sailing free
From a thousand waves and the songs of release they are singing.
Let your body feel the vastness of the sea flowing through it.
Become the primordial sea—
Feel its heartbeat, its breath, its currents, its tides,
And myriads of life forms dwelling within it.
Let go and be as me—the soul of the sea.
I can unite with the vast magnetic expanse that encircles the earth
But where in this is the power of love?
The sea contains an ancient dream—
To love and be loved in return.
I do what the sea does—
I give all of myself, my heart, soul, mind, and being
Completely, freely, whenever we meet.
How so?
In this way--let the essence of my femininity
Flow through every nerve in your body.
Come with me
Give me your mind and one hour of your time
And I will give you a life time
You as my king and I as your queen by your side
In a realm of magic and dream
Hidden in the depths of the sea.
I accept.
She touches my skin and I feel the sea ringing within
And waves breaking on all the beaches of the world.
Her lips touch mine but for a moment
And I am freed of all human need
I see the lightning storm at sea
That gave birth to life on earth
I see as she sees—
That to love alone is given this key—
To see what has been and what shall be
Even as she speaks,
One day women will love
With all the power and the beauty the sea holds,
For they will discover that my touch, my sight, and my heart
Are hidden within their own.
I return to human form
Like a sailor returning from unknown lands
Bearing treasures of love
From realms of wonder and mystery
That have not yet entered mankind’s dreams.
She says to me,
It is both wonderful and terrible
The gift human beings possess—
To be so lonely and yet so proud
Because hidden within you is a will
That can recreate the world.
She kisses me on the lips, holds me close,
Then turns and departs into the depths of the ocean—
Like a wave colliding with the shore surges back and blends again
With the sea from which it arose,
Taking with her 10,000 treasures of love
No explorer has ever found.
The undine queen, Istiphul, is perhaps the supreme
master of love on Earth or within nature. She “creates
a magical space where two separate souls may embrace as one.” When Istiphul
becomes one with another in love, there is no remainder, no separation anywhere
to be sensed or felt.
She can accomplish this because she embodies the deep mysteries of the magnetic
fluid, namely, the ability to become perfectly one with anyone. As I have
already presented in my essay/meditation on her empathy, she is in herself
united to the magnetic field embodied in the oceans of the earth. (See The
Magnetic Fluid, Part II: Istiphul’s Empathy, under my free, on-line
correspondence course. lava.net/~pagios/books.html). This is the nature of her
being and her aura. And yet she does not love in an impersonal manner as a
distant, all-encompassing sea of love. Her touch does not heal you, nurture you,
and fulfill you and yet remain forever unknowable and distant as the seas. She
goes much further.
Istiphul customizes her receptivity so that she becomes perfectly one with you.
She unites with everything a person is past, present, and future, hope, dream,
and desire, the present moment expanding into an entire universe of shared bliss
and ecstasy. She amplifies the polar attraction between herself and another so
that it is intensified, reaching its height, even as she sustains a profound and
nearly cosmic sense of peace and well-being, serenity and sense of completion
during the entire process.
To do this, she sets aside anything relating to ego. She “molds” herself to be
the perfect complement to the individual she is with. But this is not fake or
artificial. It is more after the fashion of asking and answering: What is this
person’s perfect soul mate, twin flame, divine lover, friend, companion, and
confidante on his path of life? For Istiphul, this is not a burden or a
limitation she is placing on herself. She is not role playing in a pageant or
assuming a part in a magical ritual or morality play.
What she is doing is an act of creation, for she is a hierophant, a high
priestess, in not a human but in a divine celebration. The powers of creation
flow through her in the way she loves another and she in return is joined to and
an expression of the deep purposes unfolding the universe.
Again, why would an undine or any being seek to be so generous in this way in
loving another, to go “out of her way” to this extent? The answer is that
Istiphul, in seeking to embody the deepest mysteries of the magnetic fluid on
earth, has perhaps transcended the love of even the race of undines. Istiphul
has become a channel for the goddess of the Earth. She has begun to embody the
deepest purpose that underlies the creation and design of this planet; this
planet exists to bring into existence and to nurture the arising of an advanced
civilization whose members will attain oneness with the universe—the ability to
be one with anything that exists beyond all separation. (The back story or the
origins of Istiphul’s gift I have placed at the end of this essay for those who
enjoy fairy tales for their insights into magic, love, and wisdom).
All the same, the message from akasha is continuously, “There are no limitations
placed upon what you may accomplish.”
Though we live our lives under massive limitations, we are all the same
surrounded by infinite possibilities and endless treasures of spirit. We only
need to make the effort to seek these things out and master them so that we can
offer them as gifts that will transform the world. In other words, it is within
the capacity of our race and the next race to ascend to this level.
What about the statement: “Every lover seeks another who can feel what she
feels?” Istiphul is certainly aware of whether or not her love is being
reciprocated. But loving without ego means she herself has no personal needs to
be fulfilled or satisfied. Again, the act of loving through which she gives is
done as a priestess celebrating the beauty and mystery of the universe.
When you love with all your heart, soul, and being the beauty of creation, the
inner ecstasy you experience never falters or weakens. All the same, Istiphul
would say this: “The degree to which another responds to the love I give
increases geometrically the power and the creativity in our relationship.”
What is the difference between the oneness Istiphul creates between two people
and that which the magnetic fluid itself can create? The only difference is that
Istiphul’s “sacred space in which two join as one” does have this restriction
placed upon it—the partner whom she would love, like Istiphul herself, must be
willing to let go of his ego at least briefly to attain this oneness; the reason
for this is that the bliss and ecstasy are so great that their intensity and
expansiveness annihilate all separation and this includes an individual’s ego
identity. (In other words, as Franz Bardon seems to indicate, beware of her
beauty because it will destroy you if you are not strong enough to endure it.)
The magnetic fluid, as the substance and method through which divinity reveals
love in its highest aspect, has no such limitation—the magnetic fluid in its
full power can become one with anything or anyone under any and all
circumstances and conditions. There are no restrictions placed upon it.
For this reason, a magician who first identifies himself through deep meditation
with this divine aspect of the magnetic fluid can present himself to Istiphul in
a way that embodies her own deepest sources of inspiration. But this is no easy
feat to accomplish. Remember, Istiphul is seeking to embody in her own being the
deepest purposes of this planet.
Among these, Istiphul wishes to be even as the goddess of the earth is in every
moment—one with all the waters of the earth, not just as a psychic perception or
feeling. The goddess, that is the conscious spiritual awareness that inhabits
this planet, is fully conscious and present in every drop of water on earth.
Where does all of this discussion leave us when we return to the question of
needing another? The question is, How is a mermaid woman to bond with a man when
she does not feel the normal human need to be dependent or want the other to
fill in for something that is missing in herself? (Since she feels nothing is
missing in herself.)
Sometimes a male will say with anger to a woman who has a mermaid’s aura: “You
are too pure! How can anyone love you when you have no needs and you are not
dependent on me? There is nothing to bind us together? How can anyone feel love
under these circumstances?”
One woman told me, “On occasion, I will pretend that I need my partner for
something, for example, I say to him, ‘Can you help me with my finances?’ And
then he lights up and gets enthusiastic because finally I am asking for his help
and advice. All the same, I am not comfortable doing this even though it makes
him feel good. I am not being truthful when I pretend I am, even in a minor way,
dependent.”
And then there are men who will intentionally and with great skill seek to
injure the mermaid woman and break her spirit so that she is permanently
wounded. He says to himself, “If she is seriously injured on an emotional level,
she will at that point feel incomplete. Then she will need me.”
And they sometimes succeed at least temporarily to create doubt and pain in the
woman. Here is a woman who is giving all of her love to another because to do so
is who she is and the way she lives. She feels she is a part of the other
person, her love flowing through him in every moment of the day. Again, this
takes no effort on her part. She just does it naturally.
But he, sensing that she is not bound to him but remains free, turns upon her
out of malice, insecurity, or blind fear, and rejects her suddenly. Or over
time, again and again, he does whatever he can to put her down, to demean her,
to infuse her with the hate he feels inside for all things that are truly free
and that can not be bound by need or will or become a possession.
One mermaid woman said that she left her husband because he acted in that way.
And he had injured her as he intended to do. Afterwards, she no longer trusted
herself to be in an intimate relationship because the wound her ex-husband had
created left her feeling needy. He had taken something from her. He did not take
her connection to the peace and beauty of nature, but rather her willingness to
flow these feelings through another.
If another person keeps destroying the love you are giving, eventually that
other individual’s hatred begins to flow back into you. An empath will
automatically feel what another feels. If she does this excessively, she will
become physical sick or else sick within her soul. That is what happened in this
case.
It would seem that she has to learn to do something new that a mermaid woman
never does—stop loving this creep because inside of herself she is still sending
him love. All mermaid women do this—they simply do not stop loving other people,
even after suffering harm. Or, to put it more precisely, she needs to deepen her
connection to nature and to the magnetic fluid to a depth that, like a storm on
the surface of the ocean, the depths of the sea still remain undisturbed.
How, then, does someone bond to a mermaid woman? You just flow your aura, your
feelings around her, into her, and through her. It may take some time before it
is effective but at a certain point she will sense that your needs and her needs
are the same. There is no separation.
I mentioned in responding to an email question about relationships: “If you
think and imagine you are one with a woman, she will eventually get around to
responding to you. But it may be a slow process.”
If you are good at feeling one with a woman, at some point she will look at you
and see herself reflected in you. And then whatever barriers exist will vanish.
It is not a possessive kind of thing or about being needy. It is about feeling
in your heart that you are one with another and that there is no end to it.
But for mermaid women love is still not generated by the actions of two
individuals focusing on each other. There are no “special moments” which other
couples create in order to define and maintain the feeling that their love is
unique, that they have ‘made something real’ between them. For the mermaid
woman, love is already everywhere in every moment. It surrounds everyone and
seeks to flow through everyone. You only need to open yourself to it.
In fact, a mermaid woman does not stop loving when she is no longer with
someone. She feels the exact same love for the individual that she felt when she
was in a relationship with him. This is not a “whenever I think of him or recall
our time together, I still have warm feelings toward him.” Mermaid women
actually have the psychic ability, due to their connections to the water
element, to extend their auras continuously in and through another and to flow
energy and love to him.
They have to be careful with this ability. At times it may wear them out. You
may notice for example that everyone close to a mermaid woman looks bright,
effervescent, and charged up with energy while she herself may look worn out.
Unknowingly, the people around her may be vampirizing her energy the way human
beings are used to doing collectively—without knowing it, they take more than
they give.
So how would a mermaid woman deal with her own concern that she may end up
living her entire life missing out on relationships with a really good man if
every man she is with becomes frustrated that she is not “bonded” to him? To
complicate this, mermaid women, as those who have a high sense of inner peace or
well-being, feel attracted to many different individuals.
I have already described an exercise for dealing with this issue under the topic
of magical empathy. A woman (or man) can practice active listening once a week
with someone. And then she places her consciousness within his body. She empties
her mind and imagines she is him until she gets a gut response in her own body
of what it is like to be him. And then she reflects on her impressions to
interpret and make sense of them.
At this point, she has an inner gut level, instinctual, and deep emotional
“bond” with the other person which no one else in the world has. Though this may
act on a subliminal or subconscious level, the body language and feeling of
connection of both partners instantly changes and becomes more open and
intimate.
This connection of oneness is common currency in both the
realm of mermaids and the world of
human beings. It works for both races because it is the first step toward
attaining oneness with another. And it is a genuine gift far more than any
diamond ring, toward offering something special to the other person that no one
else may ever give.
Does it still need to be reciprocated? The feeling of connection can be
established and maintained from one side without the other’s participation.
Empathy is not just passive and receptive. It can also enjoin. But when two
practice this exercise, it tends to bring about the feelings of bliss and
ecstasy that Istiphul is so adept at creating. But again, the limitation is that
both partners have to be able and willing to step aside from their individual
ego needs and identities to allow the process to unfold.
Summary
What I am suggesting is that a mermaid woman can produce in a man a feeling that
the two of them are bonded to each other without violating her own inherent
nature of simply flowing love to others.
When in the realm of mermaids, it
behooves a male magician to keep his mouth shut (his telepathic communication on
hold) until a mermaid “feels” his aura is inside of her and a part of her.
Similarly, it behooves a mermaid woman to appreciate the fact that she may never
meet a man who can reciprocate her level of empathy or who feels what is so
obvious to every mermaid who exists—that love is everywhere in every moment.
I have heard different mermaid women say, “I realize a man can not love me as I
love him. But I justify being with him because of what I can teach him about
love and because I can heal him of his wounds. All the same, when I accomplish
this with a particular man, I feel like I should move on. My work with that
individual is done.”
Now to our ears that might seem very odd for a mermaid woman to say. But I will
tell you this. From my perspective, the fairy tales about mermaids are mostly
disinformation. The writers are making up stories and inventing mermaid
personalities based on their own experience with woman. And so almost nothing
they write is insightful or informative.
But they do have one thing right about the sea people. If a selkie is tricked
into marrying a man, she will be his wife, love him, and truly and deeply love
the children that they produce. But even so, if she is ever given an opportunity
to return to her own form in the sea, she will leave in that very moment.
This she is able to do because for her love is not possessive. It is not
furthered by controlling someone else’s life. And she never forgets, no matter
how socially adept she may become in interacting with human beings, that her
true identity is non-human:
In her very being and in her heart of hearts she knows she is a member of
another realm whose essence is bliss and a love that flows without ever being
lost and that gives all of itself in every moment. By contrast, she can only
consider her experiences among human beings to be like visiting a strange land
where the race is only half awake to the beauty that surrounds them.
Afterward
I have written this essay and back story in order to discuss the idea of
“needing” another, about loving and yet remaining free, and about loving another
and yet being united to a sea of love in the same moment.
The mermaid women, in a real sense, embarrass me. You see, I am one of the needy
ones who are not yet free; nor do I feel complete. Oh, beyond all doubt, I can
spend four hours at a time meditating with an undine queen such as Istiphul. I
can briefly, during meditation, unite myself to Istiphul’s inner source of
inspiration: the power to manifest absolute oneness with any being under any
circumstances or conditions.
But outside of my meditation, I am still an ordinary kind of guy. Which is to
say that I have a great deal to learn as I interview and come to know these
mermaid women for whom love is an endless sea that is continuously overflowing
into every moment of time.
Obviously, in writing this essay, I show that I can go back and forth between an
undine’s perspective on the world, on mermaid’s women’s experience, and your
typical male’s experience.
It is my intention soon to transcribe some of the video taped interviews I have
with some of these mermaid women in order to illuminate these topics in greater
depth.