Try recording for yourself, or reading to a meditating partner, a guided imagery trip for the purpose of finding a place to learn and work. The example I give here doesn't specify what anything should be like, leaving the most room for images to arise from the traveler's own mind. But having so little concrete description given can be difficult for many people. So also try the same journey with a lot of concrete description filled in, however you pictured it while reading the first chapters of the novel. Instead of not describing the scenery around the path, say that it is a path through forest, and describe how big the trees are, and describe coming to stones steps, and walking up those steps to an oak door with iron hinges, and carved dragons rising up either side of it. You can describe the handle of the door in detail, and the direction that it opens, and the color of the stone building around it, and the appearance of the entry hall beyond. Having lots of small, colorful, sensory details to follow will often make things more vivid to the traveler. Experiment with the balance between supplying lots of detail, and just supplying an open invitation for the travelers to fill in their own details. You can do both in a single meditation, arranging detailed set design, and then leaving an open invitation for the traveler to fill in the dialog of the characters who enter that set.
Below, I've written an open invitation version of a guided meditation. When you are reading this or any guided imagery meditation, read slowly and pause between suggestions to allow time for the images to arise in the mind. You may wish to break up the scenes into separate meditations if you find good concentration only lasts through a limited time or number of instructions. For instance, you might skip over the additional part between the three asterisks. So you would concentrate just on your meeting with the guide at the entry, and then come back to explore your private work area in a separate meditation.
Begin with the method for meditation induction that you like, then make the journey of the guided imagery meditation below.
School door and guide
You are on a path. When you look down at the path beneath your feet, you know that it is a path that will take you to a teaching place. Take several steps along the path just noticing how you move forward, and remembering the yearning toward knowledge that brought you to this path. Then look at the scenery around the path. Notice the sensations and scents, visual features and mood of the way by which you travel. Choose some features to remember as easy reference points for coming back this way again.
Ahead, there is a bend in the path. Beyond that bend, the place you are traveling toward will come into view. Though you might first see your place of learning from afar, you can travel forward to it in the blink of an eye. You are drawn forward to a closed entryway into the school or temple or other training place that your path leads to. To make the entryway open before you, you may realize there is some action you need to take to announce that you have come, or why you are here. Look at the edges of the entry to see if there are symbols framing the opening.
Slowly, the way before you begins to open. Bit by bit, you see the area beyond the door. You know that a teacher or guide will meet you here. You see this guide emerge into your view. The guide speaks to you, and you take some time to speak with, or ask questions of, the guide.* * *
Let the guide lead you to a working area you can use now and in the future. This area will feel comfortable to you, relaxing and energizing. This area will have tools to aid your psychic work, or compartments from which to get tools when you need them. This is an area you can alter and add to any time you wish. It is a spiritual working place to help you, and you can return here many times. Look around, and notice some of the things that are here now. If there are things you don't understand the workings of, you can ask your guide what they are.
* * * Find your way back to the path you first came here on. Notice the landmarks as you travel back by the way you came. Then return your consciousness to noticing your body. Notice your breathing, and where you are sitting. Notice the sounds around you. Feel and stretch your muscles. Bring your mind firmly back into your body. Move around. Open your eyes. Say your own name. Take a moment to pay attention to all the cues of being present here, in a solid form, fully back from your spirit travels, feeling relaxed and renewed.
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