From: suzych@swcp.com   
      
   In article , Jyeshta   
    wrote:   
      
   > On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 12:47:42 -0800, Crowfoot  wrote:   
   >   
   > >> >>My cat will be 15 in August, and is showing signs that that choice   
   > >> >>could   
   > >> >>come any time, so this has been on my mind lately . . .   
   > >> >>   
   > >> >>C.   
   > >> >   
   > >> >I wish you and your cat good luck.  For me it was a very difficult   
   > >>   
   > >> "Wrenching" and "devastating" would be better words.  And I miss her   
   > >> painfully - which is one of the reasons I have so much anxiety that I   
   > >> must get to see her when I die.  I want intensely for us to meet again   
   > >> as we were in this lifetime, even if only for a little while (although   
   > >> I'd love for us to be together eternally).   
   > >>   
   > >> >time   
   > >>   
   > >> Again, I wish the best to you and your cat.   
   > >   
   > >Thanks; for general information, a friend of mine who is a scholar of   
   > >shamanism and its techniques went journeying after his beloved cat   
   > >died, aiming specifically for the realm of the recently dead, where he   
   > >found the cat waiting for him so that he could say his farewells and   
   > >bid it head onward across a high, thin bridge to a brightly-lit shore   
   > >on (literally!) the other side.  He's a hardheaded guy, too, not what   
   > >I would call a sentimental one or someone given to reassuring fantasy.   
   > >   
   > >C.   
   >   
   > I wish I'd known how to do that.   
      
   Well, the technique for such a journey is described in a book this guy   
   wrote with another practitioner, called "Shamanism and the Esoteric   
   Tradition" by Angelique Cook Wilcox and G.A. Hawk.  But this kind of   
   journeying isn't something I'd recommend trying without working your   
   way up to it via the various shamanic exercises that come before you   
   get to the part about journeying to the land of the dead (which   
   is really the sort of *vestibule* of Death -- after the body dies but   
   before the soul goes into the light to be remade, or whatever), to see   
   if this method of spiritual exploration suits you or not.   
      
   C.   
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