Franco Santoro's Blog: Astroshamanism, page 14

Other beings

During the day, remember from time to time to see beyond what you see. Along with the people you meet and see in everyday life, there are so many other beings that you can’t see.

These beings are desperately trying to connect with you, because they need some favor or they have issues with your ancestors, or because they want to take care of you for charity, gratitude or to repair ancient damage. Other entities feel lonely and need company, but no one can see and hear them, so they regularly try with you. Of these beings there are all types and colors.

They are not hidden beings, their presence is more than evident, but you cannot see them.

Creepy stuff!

Happy New Moon in Scorpio!

Forgetfulness

Something in our human brain prevents us from remembering who we are, where we come from and why we are here.

All our cultures and beliefs, the societies we have created and every aspect of our life is based on this forgetfulness.

It follows that if we could remember who we are, where we come from and why we are here, nothing about what we believe we are would make any sense.

Our identity, as well as the world in which we live, would become a total illusion.

This is too big a risk. Which is why, it it better to keep forgetting, and carry on, as long as we can.

The Devil. Who the hell is it?

The Devil. Who the hell is it?

From a holistic and non-dualistic perspective there is no separation, so writing about the devil in the traditional sense may seem out of place.
But even if we strive to see the unity of all things there are some aspects of existence that we cannot help but perceive as horrible, cruel, evil without measure. And even if this evil is an illusion, it becomes reality, sometimes the only possible reality.
What is the cause of evil, whether it is illusion or reality?
In traditional Christianity it is the devil, commonly referred to as Satan, whose Greek root means “accusing, attacking, opposing”.
In the sacred texts Satan is in fact described as the Great Accuser.
The first effect of Satan’s accusatory work is seen in Genesis, when after the episode of the fruit, suddenly everyone starts to accuse: Adam, Eve and … even God.
The root of satanism and evil dwells in accusation. The devil is the part of our mind that continually accuses us and also the one that accuses others. We are accused inside and outside, in our thoughts and in the words of those who accuse us, just as we accuse inside and outside, in thoughts and words of accusation towards others. This causes guilt, shame, fear, revenge, fight, wars and our human horrors.
All this point to highlight the fact that the source of evil is the attitude of accusing, blaming, condemning oneself or others.
It follows that from the prevailing thoughts and discourses, internalized or externalized by mankind, we can deduce that we are in a rather satanic world.

Dream & nightmares

In life you can manifest all your dreams.
But on one condition.
That you accept that all your dreams will vanish at a certain stage.
If you do not accept this, then in life you can realize all your nightmares.

Dreams with eyes closed and open

Every night, when you sleep, you dream and then at some point the dream ends or stops abruptly.
There are dreams with closed eyes and with open eyes. But they are always dreams. Just as the stories of our nocturnal dreams end, also the stories of our everyday life do the same. The problem is that while you accept the end of night dreams as a normal occurrence, you have difficulty accepting the end of the experiences of your daily life. Maybe you do this because your outer life doesn’t seem at all like a dream, because you consider it to be reality and not a dream.
Every day we end or interrupt our participation in everyday life, which we experience with our eyes open, and we enter into another reality, that of nocturnal dreams, in which the eyes are closed.
Dreams, both with closed eyes and with open eyes, eventually end, and this is not a failure, but it is in the nature of dreams itself.
The difference between an unhappy person and a happy person is that the latter accepts the end of dreams and focuses on what has happened before the conclusion of the dream, while an unhappy person, when the dream ends, feels only the pain of the end and no longer considers the good that happened before the end.
Remember, the end is inevitable, and the most decisive experience in human life consists in accepting this, highlighting the happiest experiences, bringing them with you at all costs both in the end and beyond.
Of course, it’s not easy, because the reality you see with your eyes open doesn’t seem a dream at all, it looks so real. It’s really hard to avoid being fooled, so don’t take it. Instead, look for people like you, who can no longer continue to delude themselves and others about dreams. Look for those like you who have decided to wake up.

New Year Astroshamanic Retreat, 28 December 2019 – 1 January 2020, Lunigiana (Massa)

28 December 2019 – 1 January 2020, with Franco Santoro

This retreat is a major opportunity to join loving forces with other friends on the path, creating healing networks and laying vital foundations for manifesting honourable intentions. The week promotes expanded awareness and planetary healing through meditation, astroshamanic practices and gentle inner work. We will alternate periods of silence and dialogue, stillness and movement, touch and contact, relaxation and activity, group and individual sessions, bringing careful attention to our inner and outer world, while also experientially exploring our astrological charts. We will also spiritually scan the past year, using an astroshamanic recapitulation technique, purposefully designed for the end of the  year, and successfully used by Franco with hundreds of participants in the past 20 years.

The assumption of shamanic recapitulation is that past events can block vital energy until they are finally sorted out and released. When this is not the case the past keeps being held in the emotional body and is constantly recycled, reactivated and condensed in the present. As human beings we tend to invest enormous energies in these memories until, just like in a computer, the memory space is used up, and our lives crash, hang or freeze. Besides reviewing one’s life and memories, releasing grievances and blocked emotions, recapitulation can allow previously trapped energies to become available so as to implement desired results and objectives. Hence, recapitulation is combined with practices aimed at defining one’s intentions, and budgeting, organising and programming the year ahead.

Please book at your earliest convenience since places are limited. It is possible to arrive earlier or stay longer. The retreat starts at 11 am on 28 December 2019 and ends at around 8 pm on 1 January 2020.

It is also possible to stay extra nights, coming earlier or staying longer to attend further events, such the Epiphany workshop, 4-6 January 2020.

For booking please click here.

The event takes place in Lunigiana, Northern Tuscany, in an area surrounded by the Appenines and the Apuan Mountains, on the via Francigena, 30 kms from Cinque Terre.
Casale in Lunigiana, Ronco
località Merizzo
Villafranca in Lunigiana 54028 (Massa, Italy)
Tel. 0187420736

Sleep & dreams

Whenever we consider what has happened in our lives, we need to be very careful not to draw hasty conclusions.
In the course of life an average human being sleeps for 230,000 hours, which is around 26 years. You spend at least a third of your life sleeping and dreaming. Do you know exactly what happens to you when you sleep and dream?
Then be careful when you assume that you know what your life has been about. Until you understand what happens to you in sleep and in dreams, you can’t be sure of anything about your life.

Madness

To put meaning in one’s life may end in madness,
But life without meaning is the torture
Of restlessness and vague desire
It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
(Edgar Lee Masters, born with full moon in Pisces)

When you are fully aware of your madness, then nothing makes you more afraid because nothing is more frightening than yourself. When you become a lover of yourself, then also fear becomes your lover, so you will have both a lot of fear and a lot of love.

Wild beast

When you acknowledge that there is a wild beast within you, and that it is the most vital and authentic part of your existence, then you cease to tell stories to yourself and others.

From that moment on, every instant of your life becomes precious. You are no longer an accomplice of hypocrisy. Finally you become who you are. And suddenly there is peace.

Spirits in the body

In the relationship with spirit guides, angels and other multidimensional entities the tendency is generally to employ the visual and verbal channel. Above all, visions and messages are privileged. Some people have difficulty relating to the spirit guides because they cannot receive visions and messages.

But are we really sure that visions and messages are so important in the relationship with spirits?

What if they were diversions to avoid a much deeper and more controversial relationship?

The connection with spirits could be intimately connected with the rhythms of our body.

Rather than searching for and promoting visions and messages another option is to retrieve the language of the spirits expressed through the anatomy and functions of our body.

Human anatomy is intimately linked to that of spirits. The parts of our body and their functions are the portal to parallel realities.

To relate with spirits means to understand the original language of the body, it means to open oneself to the anatomy of spirits.