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Creating Your Own Doorways

© Cheryl D. Tracy

What do you like? What interests you? Do you like visual mediums, or do you respond to audio cues with more ease? Who's your favorite author? What kind of books do you enjoy losing yourself in the most? Do you like playing video games? When you need to be by yourself, for whatever reason, where do you go? Or where do you imagine yourself going? What did you dream of being when you were little? Do you enjoy plants, working with your hands, writing, or drawing? The answers to all of these questions can give you ideas about what kind of doorways you can make to enter the Inner Landscape.

I have a vivid imagination so I love things that involve all the senses in some creative way. I also enjoy jumping into things with both feet and figuring it out as I go along. A friend of mine is a purely audio person. A melody, or a ballad, can send his imagination soaring with enough intensity and interest so that he can enter the Other World with sound. Another friend of mine is into plants and so almost all of her journeys are heavily doused with her Green Friends, nature spirits, and devas. Another friend of mine, a lady who loves working with her hands making small crafts, gets her design ideas by taking journeys.

It's very simple to make, or find, your own doorways. Just use your imagination!

For example, a friend of mine and I were once talking about dolmens. Those are those standing stone formations like Stonehenge. We wondered if we could create a dolmen and then step through it to where we wanted to go. Curious. We both went off and worked on the dolmens that we saw in our minds. She drew and painted hers; I sketched mine then used Sculpy clay to make it. As we did this we both thought about where we'd like the door to lead us. My friend, who is pagan, had an adventure with the Goddess in mind. All I had in mind was an adventure in tracking a creature that I'd seen in peripheral vision during several dreams and other journeys. I wanted to know what was stalking through my landscape.

Once we were ready we made up rules about how it would work. My friend, being pagan, had carloads of rules: a full circle, a full moon, and some other things I don't remember. I just wanted to get in and go for it. So we set the time and both set off on our journeys. The plan was to see what we could see and then compare notes. When we finished our journeys, we made journal entries, then slept on the information until the next day so that we could find out if any dreams would come as a result of the journeys.

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