“Creation
I change all the time
And you change also.
Everything existing
Is changing too –
And we depend
On each other.
God has created us
And constantly
We recreate Him.
Without beginning
Without end,
We create.”
(“Alone With The One” – Colette Aboulker-Muscat)
There is something in us related to our subtle energies which gives us a unique tool to balance our mental, emotional and physical body. This tool is working in us in a conscious or unconscious way. It is called imagination.
The inner experience of imagination makes imagery unique. All of us are born with an inner light which unfolds a unique potential in us. To use the imagination means to use all of our senses and turn them inside rather than outside. That also means using light as a healing force, and using attention and intention as powerful tools to attempt to avoid our habitual patterns that we repeat blindly day by day, eternally.
Claudette is the master of imagery, and is helping us to increase the acuity of our attention. Through a set of specific imagery exercises, Claudette is helping us to improve and sharpen our senses regarding what is happening now. The ability to do this is a path to freedom.
Some of my students asked about Claudette’s workshop. And the only thing I could tell them was: “Go there and do it. It will help you to experience light. It will transform you.”
We have to understand that Claudette is helping us to see the relation between light and truth. And the reason is simple: in the presence of light we can see the truth. We can find our inner light that illuminates truth. We become alive again!
Claudette’s teaching cannot be classified as a traditional western spiritual system. I found some patterns of imagery science in qi-gong and tai chi, and also in Tibetan meditation but the connection through the inner experience of imagination makes Claudette’s work unique.
The workshop starts with an intense level of energy, and each exercise is an example of inner transformation. Claudette is helping any serious searcher to enter the light and go in that direction. The transformation is profound and if you continue doing it, it will bring you to an intense and acute sense of “yourself”.
At the end of three fabulous days, you are going to move from the outer to the inner world. Remember that perceiving the inner world requires a movement opposite to what we are used to. I mean that Claudette’s techniques cause us make this movement in a conscious way. When you are gazing inside what you are looking at? It is going to be an intangible world, an empty space.
Basically, we are going to bring light into darkness and in that light, as if by magic, we will configure the emptiness using our imagination. If we do it right, there are no patterns that will imprison us; it is just play; a magic play of imagination.
Imagination is a dialogue with the unknown. It is gazing behind a veil, and to start this dialogue we can begin by visualizing our inner mirror. Our inner mirror reflects information from both worlds – the inner and outer world – like a perfect spherical surface.
To reach the clear depths of the inner mirror world we must clear each disruption that is standing in our way giving us distorting pictures and unexpected perceptions. What we see in our inner mirror may not be what we want to see. We may blame the mirror, but the mirror is an honest reflection of what is within us. This is a vicious circle, hard to be broken: we see patterns reflected by our perceptual mirror that stand in our way of perceiving the truth and the light.
Claudette’s exercises, done in a minute or sometimes less than a minute, help us to clear our eye of the distortions that obscure them. When we do this we remember what Jesus taught humanity: that we can easily see the speck in another’s eye, but we can’t see the log in our own!
Claudette is again teaching us the act of “seeing”. This act returns us to the sacred part within us, to our innocent and childlike consciousness. We become fearless and get rid of preconceived ideas. This helps us to see what is within us and how we can escape haunting archetypes. It also helps us to better understand that each pattern and each part of our dreams are part of ourselves. You just need to keep it simple and watch what the pattern is showing you because it will speak to you directly about your emotions and your repressions.
Accepting the truth will give us an inner perception; it will show us our fears and angers. It will also help us to understand that “seeing” it is a safety net; it will allow us to get messages hidden in our consciousness that are keystones in our attempt to become better, and to become filled with light and unconditional love.
For information on the Blue School Imagery Workshops with Claudette Melchizedek got to www.blueschoolofimagery.com