The Chamber of Colors and Light

Every now and then I bump into books by Dolores Cannon and have a hard time putting them down. Dolores Cannon is a regression hypnotist who writes books about the interesting places that she discovers in working with people in deep trance states. I've been hypnotized a few times and have done a few past life regressions, and I think that this is a fascinating area of study. I've debated learning more about it and working more with it, but for now I enjoy reading books written by people who have gone very far with it.

I recently started reading her book, "Between Life and Death" whose subject is the area that spirits inhabit between incarnations, if that is the correct way to say it. Last winter I went through an involved healing process and a big part of it was working with the imaginal aspects of healing. Caroline Myss has an interesting take on this. She puts healing on three levels, the lowest is the physical, then the energetic level, and then the symbolic. Working at a higher level allows you to overcome issues at the lower level. In my case, we were working with a number of health issues and addressed them at different levels. It was amazing to see how making a change at the symbolic level would just change everything at the energetic and physical levels. I went through a lot of things with that, but this is not what I wanted to write about here, but I only want to mention that healing imagery seems to fit that idea of working at the symbolic level and seems like a powerful way to approach healing

Since my healing experience used healing images, I have been interested in discovering more about the the possibilities of using healing images. Part of the Dolores Cannon book involves healing places that one can visit in the imaginal realms. In the chapter titled "The Grand Tour" she visits a healing place in the Temple of Wisdom on some astral plane. The image of it was so strong that I felt that it was worth quoting part of it here:

I was working with a young man named John who had been having some physical problems. He wondered if there might be a place in the spirit realm where he could obtain some healing. [...] After John had entered the deep somnambulistic level, I purposely directed him to go to the spirit realm and see if he could find a place that dealt with healing, if indeed such a place existed.

When I finished counting, John found himself in beautiful ethereal surroundings. He was informed that this was a portion of the Temple of Wisdom which was a large complex containing several different departments: The Temple of Healing, the Tapestry Room and the Library. I am often disappointed because I cannot also enjoy the visual wonder of what my subjects see. Like a blind person I must rely on the verbal descriptions of others, and often mere words are inadequate to truly portray the marvels they find in these other dimensions.

J: I am in the Temple of Healing now. It's a beautiful place. It's a round rotunda, and all these brilliant lights are coming through gem windows that are located up high on the ceiling. There are blues, reds, greens, yellows, oranges, turquoises, every color that you can think of except black and white. They are not represented here but every other color is, and they cast these beautiful rays of light down onto the rotunda floor. Here comes the guardian of the Temple of Healing. He walks up to me and smiles, and he's taking my hand now. He says, 'You have come for some treatment, haven't you? Your soul has gone through a great deal, hasn't it? Stand here in the center of all this light and let this light energy be with you.'

D: Is that what this place is used for?

There was no answer. He was obviously experiencing something very profound as indicated by his bodily movements and facial sensations. I was not alarmed because it seemed to be a pleasant experience.

D: Can you tell me what's happening at this time!

Still no answer. He apparently was very involved with the experience. His whole body jerked convulsively several times. This went on for a few seconds.

D: What does it feel like?

J: The different lights are swirling all around me and feeling and cleansing me. This is why I'm not able to talk at the present time.

D: I just wanted to make sure that everything is all right. Is it a good feeling?

J: It's ecstatic. (Several more seconds of silence followed as his body continued to occasionally jerk.) Oh, it's a wonderful feeling. I feel so rejuvenated. (A pause of several more seconds.) Ahh! It's just wonderful. Ohh! It's just waves of color and energy all around me taking out all my pain and soreness. And now he takes my hand and leads me away from this. He says, 'Your soul is cleansed of much negative energy that has been around you. Feel the sense of peace that comes. You must concentrate on learning to heal yourself.' (A big deep breath.) Ohh! That was a wonderful feeling. This is a beautiful place for people who have been very ill in the physical body. When they pass over they are taken here so that their astral and spiritual bodies may be rejuvenated and healed in this rotunda. Afterwards these souls that are no longer tied to bodies are met by their spirit guides and conducted into the different areas where they need to go to learn more about their soul's evolution. There's a long line of them. But because I asked to be healed and I'm still in the human form they said it was okay for me to come first and be allowed to go through the chamber. They call it the 'Chamber of Colors and Light.'

D: Is this unusual for someone who is still in the physical body to come to this place?

J: Yes. The guardian says not many people afford themselves of this opportunity while in the astral traveling state. 'But they should,' he says. 'We are here to also be of service to the souls that are still incarnated as well. If they would like to come, we would be happy to welcome them. For always there is a loving energy that goes with all this healing.' 'This is a wondrous, loving place. It's nothing like a hospital or anything like that. It's like a beautiful temple, and above this round rotunda are these gem windows. I'd say they're about five, six feet tall, and they're made up of different colored gems. The light pours through them and bounces into the center of the rotunda and it swirls you with energy.

This is a page or so of a chapter that is pretty long and involves a tour of the Temple of Wisdom Complex. They encounter a number of guides and guardians who explain a lot of what is going on there. The guides are open to the earthbound visiting and so I decided that I would try to visit. I still have lingering problems that I am actively working to heal, so a visit to the Temple of Healing would seem to be worth my while. The other areas mentioned in the book also seem worth a visit, but that is another journey for another day.

So last night I set myself up to make a journey to the Temple of Healing. I used a shamanic drumming recording, got myself on the comfy couch and put a warm blanket over me and went. I found that my most powerful healing Animal was behind me and lifted me under the shoulders up and up until we reached the Temple of Healing. That was pretty quick! The guardian there said that I could enter, but that there were too many people there for me to have the rotunda to myself, so I went into one of the many light beams. It was a pale rose color an it bathed my throat area and upper chest, one of the areas that I have been working on. Different beams of light addressed different problems from different angles. After everything had been addressed I went out of the rotunda and outside and found a set of stairs that went down to a cleansing pool where I could bathe. When I returned, I sat and thought about how my home is also like a body and needs healing and cleansing, and I made plans for things I could do and considered what I could do with light in my home.

It was a good journey and a good adventure. I'll keep this in my toolkit for future work, there seems to be an easily accessible realm of help and healing for us. I'm really enthused about seeing the Tapestry Room. I have visited the Library many times already, I believe, but that is worth checking out on some future journey.