Astral Projection and Subconscious Communication: Using Hermetic Guided Meditation to Navigate Grief with Annabel Pettigrew

‘Astral Projection and Subconscious Communication: Using Hermetic Guided Meditation to Navigate Grief’. For this session the TOG cohort were led through a guided meditation, followed by a period of post meditative automatic drawing and writing, channelling the subconscious and unconscious mind to facilitate a way of interacting with parts of our practice that may have been reawakened following the meditation.

Annabel says; ‘During a period of my deepest Grief, I felt for a while as if I had slipped into another place. A place where nothing seemed quite real, yet simultaneously all too real as a lived experience. My father’s death unlocked a series of truths, or psychic confrontations, that made me re-evaluate and examine everything I knew to be real of my life so far. Relationships, perceptions, family secrets; Ways of being and existing all undertook rigorous change. I turned to Jungian Psychoanalysis, looking to make sense of the psychic communication encountered, combined with the practice of Hermetic Meditation; The ancient gnostic aural tradition, which is intentionally undocumented on paper, and is taught to new ‘initiates’ through a series of guided meditation journeys. This process led me to Astral Projection. In a new realm, through conversations and journeys with guides I encountered versions of myself from my past, held conversations with my Dad, and met guardians who gave me advice and gifts. The more journeys I took, the more vivid the experience encountered. Since this undertaking, I have begun to write my own script for leading guided meditation based on the Hermetic Traditional process, with an updated language.’

Images shown by the cohort who were willing to share from the Artist-Led Session.