7- FINAL RECYCLING IN THE GALICIAN COAST

By this time, THE PILGRIM FOR FREEDOM IS AN EXPERIENCED WARRIOR, he has already discovered the end-of-the-world paradise,that the ancestral pilgrims of the Way of the Stars and of the Shell used to search for. He has learnt to enter into an agreement with the sea people (tremendous teachers) in order to reach any beach, any peninsula or any  island that may attract him. He has learnt how to play with them, according to their especial sense of humour.

The wanderer has become a seafaring man, the journey has become sheer adventure and discovery, including of his own potentialities.

From day to day the free pilgrim distances himself from the crowd's controlled itinerary  and, from day to day, he becomes more appreciative of the way and of the fully lived moment. From day to day both  the dates and the predetermined aims ( which are the end of the experience) tone down. The Way becomes Life and Life becomes the Way.  

The pilgrims of self-discovery, those who have paid more serious attention both to the Mirror-Contemplation and to  the Dynamic Meditation, those who have been quite experienced in their practice and that have amassed a great amount of energy and reflections while they were wandering, they have found out that the Galician Finisterres constitute unique labyrinth-portals. These labyrinth-portals are quite favourable to face the multi-dimensional Reality in an intuitive way, and they are propitious for them to be able to ascend, in a timeless moment, to a parallel universe linked to our own centre, where our Self has always existed in a pure form.

That ascent doesn't depend only on the fact that one has arrived at a place where there is a high vibration frequency, where our our physical plane and the ethereal plane of a more subtle dimension may fuse together, with the help of a powerful vortex magnetic energy spiral, like a natural breakwater facing the ocean's tempest...  

For, in order to accomplish that transference from one plane to another, it is also essential that in the pilgrim's mind a gateway has been cultivated, trained and developed, where a great and restrained accumulation of his highest enegies may be transferred, within a field of strong concentrations of irregularities  of the material gravitation. These concentrations disentangle the field of the usual human energy, which can promote its connection with a plane that might be resonant  or that might correspond with that ascendant frequency.

That's because  the access to other worlds, which are already inside this one, depends on the changing of the perspective of our mentality, depends on the stirring of any of its points of insertion with the usual and cross-lined paradigm that we accept as normality.

 Just like pressing the pushbutton and changing from a broadcasting station within the entanglement of invisible nets. In order to get it,  it's enough if you just  stop paying attention to the commonplace  hypnotic fascination for a while.

The mythological metaphor that best expresses this transforming leap is that one of the Celtic island of Avalon at the End of the World.  It was supposed to be  the Blessed Ones' Paradise, which was  visible to them and that would give them admission,only when the initiate devoted all of his energies to focus on  his integration with the  All.  Thus he was able to  pull off his mind, in a flash, from the Shadows Cave  that the system usually  projects to its manipulated prisoners as being the only reality and normality - another ancient myth that was set forth by Plato in a masterly manner.

If the pilgrim achieves to take that  leap, he will never forget about it, although he must hold the strain so that he will not allow himself to be fascinated by both his old habits and circles again. He will return to his homeland with his mental matrix formatted, regenerated, and he will dispose of a virgin mentality, but that is now wise and co-creative, because it has already experienced an insight of the Creative Mystery. 

If your RECYCLING AND SYNTHESIS, dear pilgrim,  has not been completed yet, go on focusing on it  while you are near the sea or amidst the green. If you arrive at Vilanova  de Arousa and you haven´t had that clarification yet, you may try the Timeless Journey up to Noia, and up to the lonely beaches near  Pindo Hill, ou up to Finisterre, Hermes Cape and Muxía, before you decide to bring the Way to an end at Santiago de Compostela.

You must not believe,absolutely, that the noisy and touristy Santiago may be the place to achieve that inner awareness. On the contrary. Compostela is meant to be only the oficial ending of your pilgrimage and the return to the same system from which you once departed.

Try not to return to that system before you have elevated your mentality sufficiently enough, in order to be able to go on living in the world without being so conditioned by the world.

Warning : All the cards that illustrate this Appendix are included in another work by the same author about the French Way to Santiago, the Guide-Cards for the Pilgrims of the Way of the Stars.. https://www.facebook.com/Cartas-Guia-para-os-Peregrinos-do-Caminho-das-Estrelas-502611609924232/

SANTIAGO IS INTERESTING AND BEAUTIFUL, AND ITS ARTISTIC TOWERS AND STREETS ARE  LANDSCAPE,AS WELL AS THE CAPES AND ISLANDS OF THE RÍAS. THE SYSTEM IS AN IMPRESSIVE WHIRLING ROUND, WHERE PASSIONS SOMETIMES RUN HIGH, BUT IT'S NOT BAD TO LEAVE THE STIRRING FOR A WHILE AND TO BECOME SILENT AT A PLACE WHERE ONLY SEAGULLS CAN BE HEARD.  

THE SYSTEM IS THE HUMAN SYSTEM , THE CONCATENATION OF HUMAN IDEAS AND WAYS OF ACTING OUR OWN WAY. WHEREVER WE GO; IT GOES WITH US.

OUR SENSIBILITY IS ALSO NATURAL IN THE SYSTEM. EVERYTHING IS PROGRAMMED, BOTH IN THE LOCAL AND IN THE UNIVERSAL.

PROGAMS ARE NEUTRAL. IT'S THE PLAYER WHO PLAYS ON THEM THAT TURNS THEM EITHER CONSTRUCTIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE,EITHER HAPPY OR UNHAPPY.

WHAT KIND OF GAME AM PLAYING WHILE I AM ON MY WAY?

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 EVERYONE DOES HIS OWN  LIFE RECYCLING, THE MOMENTS JUST BEFORE DYING.

At the last instant, you will watch the film of the most intense moments of your life and you will make the synthesis of their meaning.

Those moments that pushed you to an upper degree of consciousness.

Don't wait until the moment of your death to take a leap in your evolution. Taking the opportunity of the Way is much better than taking the opportunity of its limit.

" He who looks only for the way out  doesn't understand the labyrinth and, even if he finds the way out, he will come out of it  without having understood it."   

José Bergamin

PRACTISING RECICLING 

1- LEARNING HOW  TO PERFORM  CONTEMPLATIVE MEDITATION AT THE MOST LONELY  RECESSES OF THESE BEACHES.


You don't need to close your eyes. After enjoying the beauty of the landscape for a while, get fused with it, feel it as it really is - a planetary body that serves as a vehicle to your conscience, just like the physical wrapping that surrounds it

Get focused on your breathing, make it become slower and slower, deeper and deeper, and notice, from a conscience that has its focus everywhere, how your body breathes the planet's atmosphere, at the same time that the planet breathes the inner atmosphere of your body.

Feel the essential unity of both wrappings of your essence.

NOW MOVE THE FOCUS TO THE PLANET  OUTSIDE ; FEEL HOW ALL THE STARS OF YOUR GALAXY; AS WELL AS ALL OF  THE  GALAXIES THAT YOU CAN IMAGINE, COMPOSE ONE MORE WRAPPING , A CONTAINER OF YOUR CONSCIENCE.

Feel how the radiation and the vibration of all of those light points are also your own radiation and vibration, Son of the Galaxy, Son of the Stars.

LISTEN TO THE SPHERES MUSIC INSIDE OF YOU.  

ALL INSIDE OF YOU; THE IMAGINABLE UNIVERSE AND THE UNIVERSAL LIFE MUSIC INTERACTING, LIFE alive  music living within the limitless space of your vital field, of your own BEING.

Actually, none of that is your wrapping. None of that is your container.


YOUR BEING IS THE CONTAINER OF EVERYTHING, the container and the animator of all that there is.


IT IS YOUR BEING who can visualise, listen to, and imagine all that there is, both the macro and the micro, as well as all that which does not exist yet.

NOW LISTEN WITH FULL ATTENTION TO THE SOUND OF THE DARK STAR, ACCOMPANIED BY THE RHYTHM OF THE WAVES BREAKING ON THE BEACH.


THE ATTENTION OF YOUR CONSCIENCE IS CREATIVE IN ITSELF. You are already listening to the sound of GAL, of the Dark Star . Actually, all the Music of the Spheres is coming out of your mind.

...And now you know that it is from that centre that your mind emanates, created in the image and likenessof the essential mind, an extension of its, because nothing else exits but the essential mind.

Breathe, pulsate,and feel the waves rhythm, Son of Life...THE QUIET COSMIC MUSIC THAT YOU PERCEIVE IN THE DEEP OF YOUR MIND IS UNVEILING THAT DARK SHADOW THAT IS THE ORIGINAL SOURCE OF EVERYTHING.

THAT ALCHEMICAL FURNACE OF THE CREATIVE SUPRACONSCIOUSNESS.

THAT IMMENSE UTERUS THAT, BY THE FIRE OF ITS OWN VOLITION,  CONTAINS IN GESTATION THE UNIVERSES THAT ARE  STILL TO COME.


THIS IS MEDITATING IN A CONTEMPLATIVE WAY, the western way of meditating, with no need to close your eyes.

Even when one is walking, playing music, modelling the clay, painting a picture, sewing, loving, breast-feeding, digging with a hoe, whenever  intensely becoming one with one's activity.

It was this way that the Gal's Children used to meditate in the castros, on the beaches, at the rivers waterfalls and at the sacred woods, at the ploughing fields, or then fishing on their wooden and leather boats.

While thanking and honouring the other part of my being which hunts, fishes, tills the land, and reaps, in order to nourish both my closest beings'  lives and the physical and sensory  wrapping of my own being.

Nothing exists but the Being. The Being nourishes Itself from Itself.


The roman chroniclers have written that the Gallaicoi Celts, fused with the Oestrimni, the ancient inhabitants of the extreme of the world, were barbaric peoples who had neither idols nor temples to worship their gods.

They did not understand that the native people from the Sunset Land  had no need of them because they felt that the creative supernal-conscience resided in everything and, therefore, resided in them as well.

They didn't have a divided mind like the romans : " In here that's me, outside of me  there is nature, the other men and women, animals and the hostile world".

Centuries afterwards, also the christian hermits and monks used to  practise the comtemplative meditation in the gardens of the european monasteries cloisters.


Only a divided mind holds doubts about its being and needs idols to worship outside of it.

" If they sing, it's you who sings, if they cry, it's you who cries, and it's the murmur of the stream, and it's  night, and it's dawn. You are everywhere and you are everything, to me and in myself you dwell, and you will never leave me, shade that always shadows me."

Rosalia de Castro, Galician poet, Folhas Novas, 1880

2 - PURIFICATION: AS PART OF YOUR MEDITATION; WHEN YOU ARE WELL CONNECTED WITH THE WHOLE, GET FOCUSED ON THE EIGHTFOLD LABYRINTH OF YOUR PILGRIM'S BOOK.


Let's imagine that the trail  of the labyrinth represents the way of your life. With a sharpened pencil (never with a pen) draw a vertical line where your own present age ends.

YOU ARE USING A PENCIL BECAUSE AFTERWARDS YOU MUST ERASE  ALL YOUR INTIMATE NOTES WITH A RUBBER,AS SOON AS YOU HAVE FINISHED THIS RECYCLING.

We say it again, for your own protection, nobody but you should have access to those notes of yours.


Conceive signs and initial letters to record  everything that interests you on the book, but never leave  words or sentences on the pages of the PILGRIM'S BOOK  that another person , NOR EVEN YOUR CLOSEST ONE, may read and understand, SO AS NOT TO PASS THE WISHES OF TWO DIFFERENT  VOLITIONS IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS  UPON YOUR PROJECT.

NOW GO DEEPER IN YOU MEDITATION, PILGRIM, GET CENTRED ON THE LABYRINTH. MARK  WITH A COMMON SIGN ALL THOSE SEVEN-YEAR LIFE CYCLES, OR SEPTENARIES, FROM WHICH YOU GET THE FIRST MEMORIES OF GREATEST INTENSITY OF YOUR EXPERIENCE, EITHER THEY  MAY SEEM TO YOU HAPPY OR UNHAPPY.

YOU MAY START FROM THERE, conceive signs or initial letters in order  to record  the moments and places that were more intensely lived at each septenary, as it ran. By using other types of marks, call on the people that were co-protagonists of that life experience, either as friends or enemies, either as heroes or villains, upon that very stage. Atach more importance to those who have taught you something striking, either through pleasure or through pain.

BE VERY CREATIVE, Creation's Child. Precious life of the Galaxies, Life's Child, whatever you may want to  call the Mistery, the Dark Shadow from which all Light as well as  all Life's Warm  emanate, and WHICH DISINTEGRATES AND DISSOLVES THE MOST RIGID AND STAGNANT STRUCTURES.

YOU MIGHT USE HUMOUR IN THIS ACTIVITY.  Be gladly bright, warm and creative constructive consciences of Conscience. AND, OF COURSE, THE SAME WHEN YOU HAVE TO ACT IN YOUR DAILY LIFE. 

EVERYTHING IS AN ELECTRIC DANCE, EVERYTHING IS A CONTINUOUS OVERFLOW OF THREE BASIC TYPES,OR GAMMAS , OR GRADES OF THE SAME ENERGY: POSITIVE, NEGATIVE, NEUTRAL.

With those threads one weaves the web of the adventure of life  groundwork,  and each one frames his own purpose therein.

Do that, with a serene and efficient precision, so as not to produce either chaotic entanglements or harsh knots.

Every all from the All is manifested in you . You are rich and full of talents - the precious outcome of a selective evolution of many millennia and eras.

Just being, both in though,word and work. Let Power be manifested in you. Just being the Being.

NOW COMES THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN THIS PRACTICE: 

Forgive yourself, honour and thank all the people that have kept you company as actors-authors of that part of your story.


Forgive yourself, definitively, forever. Be sure to forgive, honour and thank those who were your tyrant masters.  It was an honour and also  an honour school to deal with them.

Recognise how much you have learnt because of them, and forget about any culpability, either alien or of your own. 

Because each of us does just what we can do at every moment, with the conscience grade and under the influential and changeable circumstances that prevail over each one of us at that moment. So, our concern must be only to forgive the others and ourselves.

Forgiveness is an attribute of the Whole, that never blames Itself, for there is nothing beyond the Whole. What am I in the Whole?

Proceeding to a more conscious new cycle is the objective of this pilgrimmage.

REMEMBER :  YOU CAN NOT PROCEED CLEAN AND HEALTHY TO A NEW CYCLE  UNLESS  YOU HAVE FREED YOURSELF BEFORE  FROM THE OBLIGATIONS, AMENDS AND BURDENS OF THE OLD CYCLE  WHICH YOU  HAVE STILL BEEN CARRYING WITH YOU


Each new starting cycle is an attractive, deeply stirring adventure for a good wandering spirit  .


Wandering across the whole Cosmos is ours, Children of the Stars. The Interdimensional Cosmos Whole  is our home, with plenty of lodgings, lives, vehicles, bodies, powers both of  arts and of sciences. Consciousness is splendid in what concerns its creative imagination.

3- MARKING THE KEYNOTE:
NOW, I TAKE THE PACK OF CARDS AND I LOOK THROUGH THEM AGAIN, WHILE READING THE TITLES, UNTIL I FIND ONE OF THEM THAT CAN DEFINE THE ESSENTIAL FEATURE OF MY FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING DURING THAT SEPTENARY. 
Upon the septenary I take note of the card number and sign.


4- I  ERASE THE PAST, ALREADY PURIFIED.
NOW, WITH THE RUBBER, I ERASE ALL MY NOTES, EXCEPT FOR THE NUMBER AND SIGN OF THE KEYNOTE CARD, WHICH IS THE EVOLUTIONARY HARVEST OF THAT SEPTENARY, THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS TO MY BEING.

5- I DO THE SAME WITH  THE NEXT SEPTENARY THAT  I REMEMBER INTENSELY.

.ONE CAN REMAIN THIS WAY, FOR ONE, TWO, OR THREE DAYS, before the seashore, a place of higher interchange of natural energies, UNTIL ONE CARD CORRESPONDS TO EACH OF YOUR ALREADY LIVED SEPTENARIES, AND ALSO TO THE SEPTENARY OF YOUR  BIRTH PREPARATION.

...That is, to the kind of report that you have about your parents' and grandparents' relationship which resulted in your birth and in all the circumstances around it.   

6- I CONSIDER THE CARDS CAREFULLY: NOW,   I LAY  ALL THE KEY-NOTE CARDS LINED UP, FROM THE LOWEST TO THE HIGHEST  NUMBER, ON THE SAND  BEFORE ME.

THE MOST IMPORTANT MOMENT: SUNSET. I meditate upon them; first, upon their front surface. Always keeping a contemplative meditation, I try to find out what their relationship is. Then, I examine the back side of the lined-up cards. 

"THE MUSE" . Infopicture by Manuel Castelin in Photoshop, which represents our Intuitive Consciousness. Of course, it consists of an artistic liberty, a poetic metaphor or allegory. It is neither an idol nor a sacred image, it is just a simple humanised personification of an abstract concept, for the purpose of a greater relish and proximity of our sight. A spiral vortex would  do just as well, just like a galaxy spiral, or the opening of the Toccata and Fugue by J.S. Bach. Consciousness is formless in spite of being the mother creator of all the forms that it imagines-we imagine.

7- THIS IS THE RIGHT TIME TO  MAKE UP THE SYNTHESIS OF THE KEY-CARDS.  I PAY ATTENTION TO  WHATEVER REPEATES ITSELF MOST IN THEM, AS FAR AS THE KIND OF ENERGY; FEELING OR CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL ARE CONCERNED. You will soon intuit it with all confidence, Wisdom's Child, because you are an extension of Consciousness.

 
IT IS SO THAT YOU CAN FIND THAT SYNTHESIS-VIBRATION THAT MAKES YOU FEEL LIFE MORE INTENSELY AS WELL AS YOUR EVOLUTIONARY LEARNINGS. He who knows himself, he is his own king, co-creator with full powers.

8- LASTLY, UPON THE LABYRINTH, CONSIDER THE SEPTENARIES THAT YOU STILL HAVE TO LIVE, (IF YOU LIVE UNTIL THEN).
KNOWING WHAT YOUR SYNTHESIS- VIBRATION IS.... ( THEN YOU KNOW THAT IT IS NOT WORTH TO WASTE THE SHORT AND PRECIOUS TIME THAT MAY BE YOU STILL HAVE LEFT UPON THIS PLANE BY DEVELOPING OTHERS).

HOLD YOUR PACK OF CARDS AND PROGRAMME, FOR EACH OF YOUR FUTURE SEPTENARIES, ONE OF THE CARDS THAT IS RICH IN  YOUR SYNTHESIS -VIBRATION, THE CONTENT OF WHICH YOU WOULD LIKE TO ACCOMPLISH AS A SYNTHESIS-OBJECTIVE DURING THAT CYCLE.

TAKE NOTE OF ITS NUMBER AND SIGN, UPON THE LABYRINTH AND, WHEN YOU THINK YOU WILL NOT FORGET IT ANY MORE, ERASE EVERYTHING.

WITH ALL THIS ACTION I clear my past and programme my future according to my own and free will.

 I DO IT HERE AND NOW. The only moment that exists is the here and now, oh you, the Being's Child. A DANCING, SPIRAL, SPATIAL, VARIED AND VERY SPECIAL HERE AND NOW.   A CULMINATING AND FINALISING MOMENT, JUST BEFORE THE CHANGING OF CYCLE.

You shouldn't wait until the moment of your death  to do this recycling and synthesis. That's  because at that moment you won't have the opportunity either to correct  or to improve both your course and your destiny.

On the contrary, doing it now supposes regeneration, in order to always follow wandering through new cycles upon the endless eight. Ultréia.

IF DEATH EXISTS , THERE WILL BE A DEATH OF LIFE AS WELL AS A DEATH OF DEATH.

THE END OF DIRECTIONS, ON THE COAST OF DEATH AND REBIRTH.

JULY 2019, Lugar do Pazo, Vigo, Galícia, Spain

Eightfold Labyrinth, 16 meters in diameter, realised upon the ground by Manuel Castelin and his wife, Olga Ochoa, and by friends, at the Magic Mountain of São Thomé das Letras, Minas Gerais state, Brasil, in 2012.

Huge thanks to a wonderful friend (who does not want to be mentioned) by correcting my Portuguese and English versions. Manuel Castelin.

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