Thank You for interest in the Journey Blanket!
WHAT IS JOURNEYING?
Journeying like meditation is a tool for spiritual growth and personal growth. It is also a tool that can be used for healing, obtaining information from deep within ourselves, and working through psychological issues.
The journey provides a tool for spiritual growth because the individual can seek out spiritual teachers and receive messages from deep within themselves. The messages received often have an unexpected depth of meaning. Journeyers often report that their journeys "add up" to a deeper spiritual teachings because learnings from each journey often build upon one another.
Psychologically some people use the journey to work through emotional issues. For example they may confront a deceased or living relative about past abuse. Or they may seek out, work with, and re-integrate parts of themselves that have become detached or disowned. The journey provides a safe environment to express anger, or to work through grief.
WHAT DOES THE JOURNEY BLANKET HELP YOU TO DO?
When journeying, the mind shifts to an altered state in which the brainwave patterns resemble very deep meditation or trance. Traditionally various methods are used to help people make this shift, including drumming, rattling, singing and chanting. The Journey Blanket uses the steady beat of the drum to help guide you into an altered state of mind. At the end of the journey the drum beat changes to alert you to the fact that you need to begin to return to waking consciousness.
The Journey Blanket is therefore a very practical and useable tool that will aid you in your spiritual growth and self development.
USING THE JOURNEY BLANKET
The blanket is very simple to use and is fully menu driven.
If you wish, lie down on the blanket by right clicking the pose ball.
Focus for a few moments on the purpose of your journey.
Touch the blanket to bring up the menu of options from which you can select the length of your journey, or receive more detailed instructions on journeying and how to use the journey blanket. The following journey lengths are available 10 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 40 minutes, 50 minutes, 1 hour and Infinite.
The Drumming will start and continue for the length of time you selected. You can stop at any time by clicking the blanket again and selecting Stop.
Close your eyes. Relax your body, breath slowly, deeply and evenly. Let thoughts and distractions drift away. Listen to the drum beat and allow yourself to be carried away by it. (Note that for many people it can take anywhere from 10 to 20 minutes for them to drift gently into a suitably deep and pleasant trance. It does gets considerably easier and quicker with practice.)
Take your time, and let the experience come to you in whatever way is natural for you.
As you near the end of your chosen journey time, the journey blanket will produce a callback drumming signal which is a series of slow drum beats followed by rapid drumming. When you hear this you will have about a minute and a half to finish up what you are doing, and return.
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Permissions: Copy/Mod/No Transfer
A demo version of the Journey Blanket is available at the Anam Turas Pagan Learning Grove on the Gaia Rising sim.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Gaia%20Rising/245/165/23
IM Nima Burali for further assistance.
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- Real shamanic drumming
- Guides you easily into an altered state
- Selectable journey length
- Call-back drumming
- Fully functional and easy to use
