Confusion About "double-spiral Travel"... Options

I was reading somewhere in a book of eastern traditions I have, and I came upon a meditation which is meant to enable access to other worlds.

The are two possible problems with this:

1. I have no idea how to go about doing this exercise as it is new to me.
2. I am not sure if the author has inscripted everything in detail.

I typed the meditation and found a picture of a spiral which I will add below.

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Visiting other worlds:

This procedure comes from an old Celtic tradition for getting to the otherworld.

Exercise:

Sit in a comfortable position and place a piece of paper in front of you with the picture of the double spiral on it. Devote your full attention to it for a few minutes, and then close your eyes and focus inwardly on the starting point in the center of the right-rotating spiral. Now, consciously transport yourself to this point and begin following the spiral to the right, step-by-step. After making some turns, you will reach a point at which the energy changes. On the energetic level, this point is customarily protected by two guards who will not let every traveler pass. If entrance is denied, you must turn back immediately.

If passage is granted, follow the left-rotating spiral into the center. The area surrounding the center point is at first clad in thick swathes of fog that only lighten after you reach the center point. There, a completely different world opens up. The term “otherworld” does not denote a specific place, but is rather a collective term for all reachable parallel dimensions that exist in our world in different times nad vibration levels. If you meet other beings in this place, approach them with respect. If orders or prohibitions are issued, follow them without exception.

In order to end the visit to the otherworld, return via the same route that took you there. Again start in the center of the left-rotating spiral and follow its windings out clockwise. At the turning point between the two spirals, turn left to enter the counter-clockwise spiral. When you reach the center and your consciousness is again in the here and now, you can conclude the meditation. Open your eyes and stretch in order to feel your body again.


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Has anyone had an experience with such a travel? Or does anyone understand the magick/method behind the double-spiral which enables travel?

The description was just a bit vague for my taste.

This post has been edited by DeathStalker: Dec 25 2006, 10:36 PM

YO, I ACTUALLY SEEN THIS

sorry for the trouble of the text, read on, please...

DeathStalker,

I have seen this direct picture/pattern before. There is a tribe in south america, very much into geomancy, earth magick, shamanism. Forgot their name, but they have gold relics carved and modeled into that shape (perhaps they are now kept in museums?). Don't know when, but at some time, they take like...something, stones? and they toss them into the sea (primordial source of life) after doing a dance, following the steps of that pattern of spirals. It signifies the change of life to death. One circle signifies life, the other, the realm of death. They are indeed parallel to each other in dynamic, though with minor differences. One must travel through life to reach death. There is said to be gold in the afterlife, (of which they turn into, if i remember correctly?!).

Can't remember much else. I hope this helps.

Source is either a National Geographic show, or discovery channel. Don't remember which. Was just flipping channels.

YO, I ACTUALLY SEEN THIS

sorry for the trouble of the text, read on, please...

DeathStalker,

I have seen this direct picture/pattern before. There is a tribe in south america, very much into geomancy, earth magick, shamanism. Forgot their name, but they have gold relics carved and modeled into that shape (perhaps they are now kept in museums?). Don't know when, but at some time, they take like...something, stones? and they toss them into the sea (primordial source of life) after doing a dance, following the steps of that pattern of spirals. It signifies the change of life to death. One circle signifies life, the other, the realm of death. They are indeed parallel to each other in dynamic, though with minor differences. One must travel through life to reach death. There is said to be gold in the afterlife, (of which they turn into, if i remember correctly?!).

Can't remember much else. I hope this helps.

Source is either a National Geographic show, or discovery channel. Don't remember which. Was just flipping channels.

I actually came upon it in a African Vodun book I was reading.