Invoke the Goddess, by Kala Trobe

Having laid the mantric foundation with the “aum” sound, you are ready to progress to recital of one of the simplest and best mantras for balanced creative pursuits: that of “aum kring kring kring.” Strictly speaking, this should be chanted (or mouthed while mentally chanting) at least 108 times, counted out on a rosary/mala. Completing the mantra will guarantee your success, so it is well worth setting aside the time to see it through. It will also create a mood conducive to the following visualization.

Start all the exercises by assuming the posture most comfortable to you but which won’t induce sleep, and draw a few deep breaths. Golden light is pouring into the top of your head. Be aware of your chakras, starting at the tailbone and rising up; of your state as spirit made manifest. Gradually, the chakras begin to turn and whir, and as the speed increases, so does the light flowing into and from them; at first slowly, dimly, like a lamp in fog; then brighter, sharper, more effusively. Continue this process until the lightproducing motion is firmly established in your mind’s eye, your body is shining with colour, and preferably, until you can physically feel the glow.

Now, mentally link the pulsating, growing energy of your tailbone area with the zone above and between your eyes.

Breathe in deeply and out deeply, aware of the base chakra’s light beginning to seep upward as you do so.

Next, deliberately and firmly pull this red energy up your spine toward your third eye area. Notice how the two types of chakra-energy combine to form a deep reddish-indigo. Your base chakra continues to spin brightly, infused with the purple color from your third eye zone. Now your base chakra, spine, and pineal gland are all glowing with a vibrant indigo-red.

Holding this color strongly in your mind’s eye, take a deep breath of light and imagine you are traveling in lotus posture over a vast purple sea whose waves shimmer in a thousand hues of purple and red, creating sharp and subtle colors you would never have thought possible, so subtle, diaphanous and multidimensional are they.

The sky in which you are levitating is also purple, but a deeper, more intense shade punctuated from time to time by passing distant moons— silvery-white orbs whose light seems to make you travel faster and higher.

You can change speed and direction with a flick of the switch of will, but at 27 Saraswati