THE TEN MIRRORS OF THE SELF
© 2011. D. Ashcroft-Nowicki
Friday 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
The Evolution of Creative Power in Humanity from earliest times. Cave Painting and Shamanisn. The development of sculpture, writing, and recording of historical events and on into the glory of the Medieval artists. The coming of technology, the prophetic art and thinking of early Science Fiction writers. The resurgence of interest in Occultism from the 1880’s on to present time.
8:00-8:30 break
8:30-9:30.
The Mirror of the Physical Self. How to Approach it. Accept it. Change it. Adapt it. Believe in it.
Saturday 9:30 am - 9:30 pm
9:30-10:30
The Mirror of the Dream Self. Why did we develop the ability to dream? What IS a dream? Prophetic Dreams. Lucid Dreams. Day Dreams. Dream keep us sane. Facing our Dreams. Creating dreams. Using them as plans for events. Empowering Dreams. Collective dreaming. Dreams as infinite possibilities. Quantum Dreaming.
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00
The Mirror of Self Knowledge. A difficult mirror to face. Often cracked or multi-faceted. Distorted. We are not always what we think we are. We are more than we think we can be. We often colour this mirror with the overflow from the next mirror. How much do we know and believe about ourselves. How often do we deceive ours ABOUT ourselves? What are we, can we become better, where and what are our flaws?
12:00-12:30 Break
12:30-1:30
The Mirror of the Emotional Self. This mirror is almost a twin of the preceeding one, they tend to merge with each other like the String Theory of Quantum Physics where two particles are actually one particle with two aspects that have a mutual re-action to any given stimuli. We are emotional animals and have developed this sense to an extraordinary degree far beyond any other life form. Emotions demand feeding, stimulation, and can be detrimental or life changing.
1:30- 3:30 Lunch & Rest
3:45-4:45
The Mirror of the Mental Self. What do we know about our Mind and its faithful computer…the Brain? We have five Brains and are possibly developing a sixth. The Mind is the programmer but it receives its instructions from THE SELF, THE I, THE DEFINITIVE YOU. What kind of programming have you given it? Why do you have phobias? The programming of your brain as a child defines what you will be as an adult. Often this programming forms barriers that inhibit you on later life. This is the point where you can change the programme.
4:45-5:15 Break
5:15- 6:15
The Mirror of the Dark Self
We all have a dark side, we are all capable of appalling things when driven by fear, desperation, survival, or MOB RULE. The Group Mind of a Fanatical Mob is one of the most frightening things you can experience. It can sweep the most gentle minds into a vortex of violence. Yet it has a reason for its existence. People survived the horrors of concentration camps by its power, have endured disasters both natural and man made. When faced with no other option anyone can and will kill to survive. Because of this part of ourselves we become the prime species.
6:15-7:30 make ready for the ritual.
7:45 Ritual
Sunday 9:30 am - 3:30 pm
9:30-10:30
The Mirror of the Spiritual Self. Having faced the Dark Reflection we now come into the Light. Here we have to ask ourselves what we really believe in. We speak of God or Gods, of the Afterlife and of Death… but what do we really, truly, believe in. This is also the mirror of Faith. It is where we can build our ultimate Dream or fall into chaos. WE, of all people, with our training have the ability to project, invent, create what we most desire when the time comes. This is where the ability to create comes into its greatest power. This mirror demands ultimate truth. It will show you the true self, naked and unadorned, those who have no faith must make a choice. Those who do must accept what their ;life has made them.
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-11:30
The Faceted Mirror. This is a brief glimpse of that moment of crossing the Abyss. When pieces of all the mirrors so far come together to present you with a composite Self. It can be beautiful, hideous, perfect of deformed, alien or angelic.
11:45- 12:45
Here the Mirrors divide into Male and Female. The Mirror of the Formative Feminine Self. The Mirror of the Energetic Masculine Self.Because we have gender we first look into the Mirror appropriate for us. The Female will see what she has created and achieved in life, where she has done well and where there has been failure. Failure does not mean punishment it means a need to try again. The Male needs to look to the Energy and Power of Masculinity and balance the need to dominate with the need to protect. Few escape this and we try keep trying until we can pass the test. We call it re-incarnation.
12:45-1:30 Break
1:30- 2:45
The Divine Mirror of the True Self. This is where we can see our true and perfect self, unblemished and perfect. We can see what we will eventually become. Neither male nor female, the Alchemical Androgyne. A life form tested and tried, able to create what it needs when it needs it. Able to exist in any form and any environment. Beyond life and Death, it exists simply to be perfection. At this point it is totally its own Master and may choose its own way of being.
3:00 Questions and hopefully answers.