FREE Dream, Meditation, and Rune Play RESOURCES
A Waking Dreamer's Manual: Overview of Clear Light Lucid Dreaming, Dream Yoga, & Seth's Dream-Art Science
Choosing Peace - 4 audio journeys for deep sleep and relaxation
Clearlight Journeys - audio for learning meditation skills
Contemplation with Cerule's Runes of Love: free pdf and Kindle formats
for those who enjoy using the runes as starting points in self-inquiry and contemplation
Everything on this page is FREE---in-depth book on lucid dreaming, Choosing Peace Audio Course, Clearlight Journeys meditations, and Contemplation with Cerule's Runes of Love. However, I do have a couple of rune sets for sale at the bottom of this page.
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Choosing Peace Audio Course
Meditation Technique for Clarity
Choosing Peace is a short course of 4 meditation journeys and written material. Each journey is 15 to 20 minutes long and contains powerful light body transmissions. This course offers a technique that will not only help you center and get your power back, but help you open your natural knowingness to take effective action at the right time. For deep rest, listen to all four as you're falling asleep. Never listen to these journeys while driving or operating machinery. The music is by Thaddeus, LuminEssence Productions, www.orindaben.com, with permission.
Choosing peace makes it easy to release struggle, worry, anxiety, anger, complaints, grudges, and depression—all the things that keep us in bondage and create harmful chemistry in our bodies. Choosing peace allows us to let go of inner conflict and experience our inner and outer worlds as one world. When we are of one mind rather than two, centered rather than beside ourselves, we are “together”; our light illuminates the world.
Peace is the doorway to creativity, intuition, and health. To be in peace is to be without inner conflict, to be undivided, focused, and clear. It is a state of dynamic equilibrium and harmony. Peace offers a platform for creativity and clear, constructive action. When we are without self-criticism and self-condemnation or criticism and condemnation of others, we can see clearly and objectively and access Knowledge.
Peace is the doorway to creativity, intuition, and health. To be in peace is to be without inner conflict, to be undivided, focused, and clear. It is a state of dynamic equilibrium and harmony. Peace offers a platform for creativity and clear, constructive action. When we are without self-criticism and self-condemnation or criticism and condemnation of others, we can see clearly and objectively and access Knowledge.
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Choose peace with every breath. Strengthen your power to choose peace instead of being carried away by useless worry, regret, self-criticism, or anger. Find and identify with your essential energy and the light of your own true nature.
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Bring light into an issue or creative project. Find your topic as energy, get information about it, and make adjustments that will translate as positive changes in the physical world. Learn how to evolve anything in your life with light.
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Allow the flow of radiance to every cell and organ in your body. Bring in new energy, circulate it, and release the old energy to be recycled and purified. Bask in the light and enjoy yourself. Just follow the light transmission.
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Listen to this journey at bedtime for deep sleep. Create a protective, healing cocoon to harmonize your energies. If you're really having trouble sleeping, listen to all four journeys. By the time you reach this journey, you'll likely be deeply asleep.
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Choosing peace with each breath is a wonderful shamata practice for bringing us back to reality when our mind wanders, gets frightened, or feels confused. It is a simple but powerful practice.
“Shamata” is a Tibetan Buddhist word for “being present.” Shamata practices are techniques for “tethering the mind” so that we can focus, think clearly, meditate, complete a task, or just enjoy life—the tasty melon, the songs of birds, the beauty of greenery, sunlight on the water, the scent of flowers, the feel of silk, a lingering kiss, and so on.
Choosing peace makes it easy to release struggle, worry, anxiety, anger, complaints, grudges, and depression—all the things that keep us in bondage and create harmful chemistry in our bodies. Choosing peace allows us to let go of inner conflict and experience our inner and outer worlds as one world. When we are of one mind rather than two, centered rather than beside ourselves, we are “together”; our light illuminates the world.
Peace is the doorway to creativity, intuition, and health. To be in peace is to be without inner conflict, to be undivided, focused, and clear. It is a state of dynamic equilibrium and harmony. Peace offers a platform for creativity and clear, constructive action. We are not at war with ourselves or others; we are without self-criticism and self-condemnation or criticism and condemnation of others. Yet we see clearly and objectively and are in touch with knowledge. Responding to knowledge, we naturally take the right action at the right time. When we are in peace, we know what to do.
Peace is not the absence of excitement! Nor is it a state of blandness. The peace we are speaking of here is the peace of knowledge. When we choose peace, we are choosing knowledge over ignorance. Peace is freedom. Choosing peace is the same as choosing freedom. Choosing freedom opens up the space all around us and reveals our options. It releases us from the bondage of living in reaction to everyone and everything around us. We no longer feel anxious to put our requirements on others and control the world. Peace is deep joy.
When we don’t choose peace, we have many complaints, judgments, grudges, and “should’s.” We feel we know what other people should be doing or not be doing; we also criticize ourselves: “I should not feel that way, I should be a better person, I should have kept quiet, I should have spoken up.” When we do not choose peace, we choose discontent. Nothing satisfies us. If the weather is hot, we want it cold; if it’s cold, we want it hot. We cannot be pleased. We cannot enjoy life and we bring conflict into other people’s lives as well. When we do not choose peace, we choose victimization and blame. We lose our personal power and our ability to respond effectively to create happiness.
Peace is being in alignment with reality. When we are not at peace, it is because we have “gone mental,” as one of my teachers calls it. Going mental means getting tangled up emotionally in the stories we create about reality instead of being with reality as it is. When we choose peace, we choose truth. We respond from knowledge. Peace requires abiding in the still point within, where we are one with reality, aligned with the Source of all life.
Choosing peace may be painful at first because as soon as we choose peace, we are brought face to face with our inner turmoil and old habits. We have to look at it! We may not want to acknowledge our inner conflicts, or see how we have used them to give ourselves a sense of identity and a source of temporary energy. We might even discover we are addicted to conflict! Drama does stir up the energy, but the energy we get from drama dissipates quickly and we are left weaker and hungrier than before. To get sufficient energy out of drama, we have to create a lot of it all the time. And no matter how much energy we get out of it, we never feel full or satisfied. Used to a state of discontent, maybe even a bit fond of it, we might recoil from choosing peace at first, even if we really want to. Or we might choose peace in some areas but cordon off other areas: “Here, I won’t choose peace! No way!” We want to hang on to an old grudge or issue.
Choosing peace doesn’t mean you have to approve of or like something you don’t approve of or like. It doesn’t mean compromise, in the sense of compromising your values. It doesn’t mean making others happy at any cost. It doesn’t mean you can’t have opinions or take a stance on a matter. What it does mean is that you release the desire to force your views on others. You practice peace. You feel calm, steady, and content when you act from inner peace. You can be at peace with your dislike or disagreement about something and be at peace with others' disagreements with you. True peace transcends and includes all.
“Shamata” is a Tibetan Buddhist word for “being present.” Shamata practices are techniques for “tethering the mind” so that we can focus, think clearly, meditate, complete a task, or just enjoy life—the tasty melon, the songs of birds, the beauty of greenery, sunlight on the water, the scent of flowers, the feel of silk, a lingering kiss, and so on.
Choosing peace makes it easy to release struggle, worry, anxiety, anger, complaints, grudges, and depression—all the things that keep us in bondage and create harmful chemistry in our bodies. Choosing peace allows us to let go of inner conflict and experience our inner and outer worlds as one world. When we are of one mind rather than two, centered rather than beside ourselves, we are “together”; our light illuminates the world.
Peace is the doorway to creativity, intuition, and health. To be in peace is to be without inner conflict, to be undivided, focused, and clear. It is a state of dynamic equilibrium and harmony. Peace offers a platform for creativity and clear, constructive action. We are not at war with ourselves or others; we are without self-criticism and self-condemnation or criticism and condemnation of others. Yet we see clearly and objectively and are in touch with knowledge. Responding to knowledge, we naturally take the right action at the right time. When we are in peace, we know what to do.
Peace is not the absence of excitement! Nor is it a state of blandness. The peace we are speaking of here is the peace of knowledge. When we choose peace, we are choosing knowledge over ignorance. Peace is freedom. Choosing peace is the same as choosing freedom. Choosing freedom opens up the space all around us and reveals our options. It releases us from the bondage of living in reaction to everyone and everything around us. We no longer feel anxious to put our requirements on others and control the world. Peace is deep joy.
When we don’t choose peace, we have many complaints, judgments, grudges, and “should’s.” We feel we know what other people should be doing or not be doing; we also criticize ourselves: “I should not feel that way, I should be a better person, I should have kept quiet, I should have spoken up.” When we do not choose peace, we choose discontent. Nothing satisfies us. If the weather is hot, we want it cold; if it’s cold, we want it hot. We cannot be pleased. We cannot enjoy life and we bring conflict into other people’s lives as well. When we do not choose peace, we choose victimization and blame. We lose our personal power and our ability to respond effectively to create happiness.
Peace is being in alignment with reality. When we are not at peace, it is because we have “gone mental,” as one of my teachers calls it. Going mental means getting tangled up emotionally in the stories we create about reality instead of being with reality as it is. When we choose peace, we choose truth. We respond from knowledge. Peace requires abiding in the still point within, where we are one with reality, aligned with the Source of all life.
Choosing peace may be painful at first because as soon as we choose peace, we are brought face to face with our inner turmoil and old habits. We have to look at it! We may not want to acknowledge our inner conflicts, or see how we have used them to give ourselves a sense of identity and a source of temporary energy. We might even discover we are addicted to conflict! Drama does stir up the energy, but the energy we get from drama dissipates quickly and we are left weaker and hungrier than before. To get sufficient energy out of drama, we have to create a lot of it all the time. And no matter how much energy we get out of it, we never feel full or satisfied. Used to a state of discontent, maybe even a bit fond of it, we might recoil from choosing peace at first, even if we really want to. Or we might choose peace in some areas but cordon off other areas: “Here, I won’t choose peace! No way!” We want to hang on to an old grudge or issue.
Choosing peace doesn’t mean you have to approve of or like something you don’t approve of or like. It doesn’t mean compromise, in the sense of compromising your values. It doesn’t mean making others happy at any cost. It doesn’t mean you can’t have opinions or take a stance on a matter. What it does mean is that you release the desire to force your views on others. You practice peace. You feel calm, steady, and content when you act from inner peace. You can be at peace with your dislike or disagreement about something and be at peace with others' disagreements with you. True peace transcends and includes all.
Clear Light Journeys
Free Audio: Learn Meditation Skills
Clear Light Journeys
Meditation skills include focus, clarity, presence, maintaining a focus, centering, fully experiencing whatever your are experiencing in the present, and allowing flow. Meditation skills are basic to rune play, including divination! Here are some meditation MP3s from my Clear Light Journeys classes. All are my original creations. Background music is by Thaddeus, LuminEssence Productions, www.orindaben.com, used with permission. Use headphones for best results. Do not listen to any of these journeys while driving. Natural Meditation: A Mini-Class in 4 MP3
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The Easy Dan Tien Meditation will help you release fear, anger, guilt, shame, and blame stored in the lower abdomen. It's much easier to meditate when we have a happy belly. When you relax your belly, the rest of your body relaxes.
Meditation with Eyes Closed is a journey for exploring three meditation techniques: being with the breath, focusing on an internal image, and practicing the inner smile. These traditional techniques are thousands of years old.
While meditation can ultimately be practiced with eyes open or closed, in any position (walking, running, standing, lying down, or sitting), and during any activity, I recommend at least one short daily quiet time with eyes closed and the body relaxed and still so that you can listen with undivided attention to your inner knowing and true guidance, the golden compass in your heart. Following Your Heart speaks for itself!
Evolving Consciousness is a far-out journey. Be sure to listen to it only when you will not be interrupted. Do not listen just before driving or handling dangerous machinery.
This Christ Consciousness meditation journey is for those who love the Christ Light.
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Free Rune book in Kindle and pdf formats:
Contemplation with Cerule's Runes of Love
Contemplation with Cerule's Runes of Love PDF and Ebook for Kindle
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Truth, Love, Beauty
Cerule's system of contemplation is dedicated to those who enjoy playing with the runes in a spiritual way, in the contemporary tradition of Ralph Blum, on their journey to wholeness.
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Cedar Rune Set
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The pdf is above and the ebook for Kindle is below.
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No other source delves into the essence of the runes as clearly, precisely, and deeply, or offers as many ideas to explore as Cerule's system, which is great for *spiritual growth, *psychological exploration, *intuitive training and wellness, *everyday practical ideas, and *imaginal play for creators in all walks of life.
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Author's hand engraved set of rune stones. Each stone is unique. After engraving, the runes were painted with gold paint.
The runes, angular symbols representing natural forces, elements, activities, animals, and objects, are native to Northern Europe and Scandinavia, including the Germanic, Norse, Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, Greenlandic, and Icelandic peoples. Their true history is lost in the mists of time; except for a few brief tales and rune poems, the only writings about the runes (the Prose Edda and Poetic Edda) were translated more than two centuries after these lands had been conquered, and the authors were scholars, piecing together the older history as best they could with their Greco-Roman educations.
The traditional story is that perhaps two thousand or so years ago, Odin, a “god,” sacrificed an eye and wounded himself in the side with his own spear so that he could drink from Mìmir’s Well, the well of wisdom at the roots of Yggdrasil, the world tree. For nine days and nine nights, Odin hung upside down over the well from a branch of the tree to gain knowledge of the runes.
Symbolically, this tale might refer to a shaman (or various shamans melded into a composite over the years) who went into meditative retreat (hanging upside down symbolizes “going within”) until achieving his goal (the number nine signifies completion), which was to understand the cosmic forces, or the nature of reality, first hand.
Duality, expressed as two eyes, had to be sacrificed to achieve single vision, and the small self had to be voluntarily sacrificed (wounding himself by his own hand) so that he could expand into his greater self. It is said that Odin gave his “self to his Self.” He gave up his separateness to become one with his own divine nature. “Divine” here refers to the field of all knowledge, power, and substance, or the akasha (the Sanskrit word for subtle space, subspace, or the radiance of the ground luminosity from which we come and into which we return).
Water symbolizes life, and the well symbolizes the source of life.
Yggdrasil, the axis linking the nine worlds or levels of reality in Nordic mythology, sits at the center of the universe, where it has always been and will always be, to rebirth the universe each time it implodes. It is tended to by the three norns, or fates (the laws of physics dealing with space, time, and matter; the three gunas of Hinduism that maintain balance in the universe; the three-fold nature of divinity as energy, knowledge, and substance; and perhaps the three angels of Caroline Myss: the angel of compassion, the angel of choice, and the angel of necessity). The three norns, “weavers of destiny,” are sisters: Urd, the elder, “that which has become,” fate, or the past; Verdandi, the mother, “that which is becoming,” what is, or the present; and Skuld, the maid, “what will be,” the future, or necessity.
Recent theories in physics postulate a new universe “budding” from the bottom of a black hole after implosion of the previous universe, which is prevented from total collapse by neutrinos. Could Yggdrasil be symbolic of a black hole that continually rebirths the universe? (And does it retain the information that was created in the old universe? I would think so; what a waste if it didn’t!) Also intriguing is the latest idea that the universe unfolds from the implicate order in nine dimensions. We can find endless connections in the mythologies of the world with scientific fact and theory. This is not surprising when we consider that we are literally composed of reality and can experience the true nature of reality first hand through meditation. “Be still and know,” says the Sage.
If you wish to read a more colorful and detailed history of Norse mythology and the runes, I suggest Paul Rhys Mountfort’s Nordic Runes. It's scholarly as well as colorful.
The traditional story is that perhaps two thousand or so years ago, Odin, a “god,” sacrificed an eye and wounded himself in the side with his own spear so that he could drink from Mìmir’s Well, the well of wisdom at the roots of Yggdrasil, the world tree. For nine days and nine nights, Odin hung upside down over the well from a branch of the tree to gain knowledge of the runes.
Symbolically, this tale might refer to a shaman (or various shamans melded into a composite over the years) who went into meditative retreat (hanging upside down symbolizes “going within”) until achieving his goal (the number nine signifies completion), which was to understand the cosmic forces, or the nature of reality, first hand.
Duality, expressed as two eyes, had to be sacrificed to achieve single vision, and the small self had to be voluntarily sacrificed (wounding himself by his own hand) so that he could expand into his greater self. It is said that Odin gave his “self to his Self.” He gave up his separateness to become one with his own divine nature. “Divine” here refers to the field of all knowledge, power, and substance, or the akasha (the Sanskrit word for subtle space, subspace, or the radiance of the ground luminosity from which we come and into which we return).
Water symbolizes life, and the well symbolizes the source of life.
Yggdrasil, the axis linking the nine worlds or levels of reality in Nordic mythology, sits at the center of the universe, where it has always been and will always be, to rebirth the universe each time it implodes. It is tended to by the three norns, or fates (the laws of physics dealing with space, time, and matter; the three gunas of Hinduism that maintain balance in the universe; the three-fold nature of divinity as energy, knowledge, and substance; and perhaps the three angels of Caroline Myss: the angel of compassion, the angel of choice, and the angel of necessity). The three norns, “weavers of destiny,” are sisters: Urd, the elder, “that which has become,” fate, or the past; Verdandi, the mother, “that which is becoming,” what is, or the present; and Skuld, the maid, “what will be,” the future, or necessity.
Recent theories in physics postulate a new universe “budding” from the bottom of a black hole after implosion of the previous universe, which is prevented from total collapse by neutrinos. Could Yggdrasil be symbolic of a black hole that continually rebirths the universe? (And does it retain the information that was created in the old universe? I would think so; what a waste if it didn’t!) Also intriguing is the latest idea that the universe unfolds from the implicate order in nine dimensions. We can find endless connections in the mythologies of the world with scientific fact and theory. This is not surprising when we consider that we are literally composed of reality and can experience the true nature of reality first hand through meditation. “Be still and know,” says the Sage.
If you wish to read a more colorful and detailed history of Norse mythology and the runes, I suggest Paul Rhys Mountfort’s Nordic Runes. It's scholarly as well as colorful.
These rune sets are not free, but this is the only logical place to put them on this website. Both are made from sycamore, a variety or cousin of the maple. The runes were burned into the wood. Each set comes with extra pieces in case you want to add additional runes (or variations on the shapes) or other symbols to your set. $50. Order by emailing me through the contact form on the Home page. This ensures that two people don't order the same unique set. There is a quarter in the right-hand set to compare for size.
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