Meditation: Raven

Get comfortable sitting or lying down. Take a deep breath and close your eyes. Picture yourself walking through a forest. Hear the sounds of leaves under your feet. Small the crisp air and the forest scents. See the light of the sun filter through the trees as you walk on a path through the forest. Soon you see a clearing ahead. In this clearing, there is a large tree the size of a small house.

Near one root of the tree, there appears to be an earthen staircase heading down into the ground. Walk down this staircase and onto a path that leads through a tunnel, just light enough from a few holes to the sunlight above. Soon you enter a part of the tunnel that is darker, as there are no wholes above and you seem to be coming downwards. This tunnel is soon lit by sunlight that seems to be coming from the end of the tunnel. The end of the tunnel appears and remarkably leads to a clearing within another forest. You are now in the lower realm.

As your eyes adjust to the sun you see a beautiful meadow surrounded by trees. Look into the sky, Does it took the same as the sky in the physical realm? How does the sun look here? Are there any other differences here from the land above?

Soon you notice, to the side of the clearing, a large Raven standing on the ground. It comes to you and you see that it has a piece of meat in its beak. It looks directly at you and then turns its head towards the forest. It hops a few feet away and then pauses. It looks back at you as if waiting for you to follow; it then hops farther away and you do start to follow. It begins to fly but stays low to the ground and allows you to keep up. Raven leads you into the forest and after a short walk files to a nest up in a tree. The nest is about halfway up the tree.

You begin to climb the tree and find it much easier than you expected it to be. As you reach a limb across from the nest you see that the raven is feeding the meat to her young. You recognize that raven will find sustenance from almost anywhere. Raven is not squeamish and has adapted to digest even the most unpalatable meal. Raven has learned to survive where others could not survive.

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