Halfway Between Worlds: Bloodline of the Pure

by S. B Terra

  “Willpower needs to be maintained just like if you don’t exercise your body, you will become unfit, and if you don’t work your muscles, they will be reduced and weakened, this is the nature of it. It can be something as simple as meditating for longer than you usually would after becoming restless or exercising self-control with your thoughts and actions during day to day activities.

  “Willpower is also gained from courageous action and facing and overcoming your fears, for example, if you have a fear of something, by seeking it out, facing it and conquering it, you will be nourished with willpower and confidence.

  “One last example is being true to yourself and standing up for what is right. Say if someone is being unfairly persecuted, instead of turning a blind eye out of fear of being persecuted yourself, if you were to stand up against that wrong doing knowing full well that something might happen to you, this act of faith and staying true to yourself will also nourish you with willpower. Willpower can, however, still be grown by those who have accumulated ignorance and have darkened souls from their karma, willpower should not be confused with karma. Any questions?”

  “What do you mean by darkened souls from their karma?” asked Alice curiously.

  “You haven’t read The Natural Laws of Karma yet?” asked Bella, looking surprised.

  “Not yet, no, I’m almost finished Way of Souls.”

  “I recommend you read it after you finish Way of Souls. With karma, spiritual ignorance comes in forms of attachments and desires, the more ignorance that accumulates on your soul, the more that you will become blinded and view your reality through that ignorance. If one continues to act on and fulfil their attachments and desires, the ignorance will slowly start to take over their reality, becoming stronger and harder to resist, and the greater the loss and suffering will be that is felt when the ignorance isn’t fulfilled or reinforced.

  “One that continues down the path of ignorance will eventually come to be in a constant state of suffering when their desires are not fulfilled. The more that they choose to ignore the suffering that is bound to them upon the cessation of feeding off their ignorance, the more that they will plunge into the abyss.

  “Now, if you act on those attachments or desires with cruel or perverse intent, or if your actions produce cruel or perverse consequences such as unjust murder or inflicting unjust suffering upon others, that ignorance will further engrain into your soul and will darken, therefore darkening your soul. The only way for one’s karma, or darkened parts of the soul, to purify back to its natural form is through suffering. Whether it be in the form of physical pain or mental and emotional pain such as feelings of extreme guilt and remorse, anxieties, depression and loss among other things, depending on the severity of it. If one’s ignorance is continually reinforced, depending on the perverseness of it, this can also darken parts of your soul.

  “When one’s soul darkens, their reality is darkened, and happiness, peace, love and meaning will become absent, and the only enjoyment they will experience will be from the fulfilment and feeding off the ignorance that they are chained to. This can be lust, greed, anger, hatred or attachments to your falsely created self-image, such as fame or social and egotistic validation, for example.

  “On the other hand, genuine, selfless, good action in devotion to others or to the goodness of the divine, supreme spirit and nature will purify your soul, giving you good karma and lightening your world, bringing you happiness, joy, peace, clarity and love and will fill your word with meaning.

  “A soul can also purify its previous bad karma by selfless, good acts of devotion to others or to people who they may have harmed as an act of genuine repentance, this is the nature of karma.” “So, if someone unfairly inflicts suffering onto someone else and they do not genuinely repent for it, for their soul to purify back to how it was before what happened, they will need to suffer through their karma to the extent of what their actions have caused?” asked Alice.

  “Exactly, think of the darkness of one’s soul as suffering that they have accumulated that needs to be burnt, washed away, felt through and purified. It may come in a form similar to that of your actions that caused the karma, or it may be different, but, if looked at in the right way and understood properly, a karmic lesson will be learnt once you have suffered through and purified your negative karma. If you do not learn your karmic lesson once you have suffered through your ignorance and again create and cling to that ignorance after it has neutralized, then you will have re-live that lesson until you have fully comprehended it and can see past it.”

  “I’m guessing that if a soul continues to darken, it will eventually be destroyed and will disintegrate into the eternal darkness and cease to exist, whereas if a soul continues to purify itself through goodness and selflessness, after its countless lifetimes and after it has learnt all of its karmic lessons, it will merge into the everlasting bliss of the divine?” asked Alice, slightly surprised at how easy the words flowed out of her mouth.

  “Are you sure you haven’t read the book?” asked Bella with a mischievous look.

  “It’s as if I know this already, this is practically what I believed since I was young back in the material.”

  Bella smiled.

  “What the Medelles preached about crossings was an ignorant ideology, and as I’ve said before, who knows, maybe you’ve been here or in a world similar to this before.”

  “There are other worlds like this?” asked Alice curiously.

  “I’m sure there is, the universe is infinitely large, there are countless worlds out there, where those worlds are, I can’t say, but it is without a doubt that they exist.”

  A feeling of beauty and wonder came over Alice as she pondered over the infinite possibilities of existence.

  “Now, another thing that is extremely important are your emotions, you must become completely unchained and in control of your emotions and your mind to where no outside influence can alter your inner state and hinder your power. Emotions can amplify your power if used correctly, and if used incorrectly, can lessen it. For example, say someone says something horrible to you, normally you would probably feel sad about it, but if you were unchained and a master over your emotions, through clarity and understanding, you would either stay neutral or bring forth a positive emotion instead, not allowing what they have said to influence you. If you were to see the situation with clarity, you would see that they are simply acting on either jealousy, anger, spitefulness or another attachment to the falsely built up self-image or ego which is illusory, and that what they say simply and truly doesn’t matter and doesn’t affect the true self in any way.

  “You would also understand that by indulging in a feeling of sadness from what they have said is in fact an attachment itself to the idea of your false self-image or ego. To practice being unchained, start by becoming aware of your social interactions and the way that you react and feel to certain things, and start to break apart your automatic, habitual emotional responses, patterns and attachments.

  “When you are truly unchained and in control of your emotions, you will be able to conjure any emotion that you please at any given time. If you are selfless and without attachments this is a lot easier, so it goes hand in hand with meditation and can also be practiced and mastered through certain meditation practices.”

  “What type of meditation practices?” asked Alice.

  “Practicing bringing forth and holding different emotions at will, visualization, for example visualizing something that makes you emotional and then changing and breaking apart the emotional response that is attached to the idea or visualization and so on, you can get creative with it. Do you understand everything I have said? Make sure you ask me any questions that you might have if you ever don’t fully grasp something.”

  “No, I understand.”

  “Okay, good. Now that we’ve covered all of that, let’s start on the magic shield spell. This spell is one of the most effective and widely used defensive spells. When produced,
the spell will create a magic shield in front of you which will deflect offensive spells depending on the strength of the shield. Once you start to master the spell, you will be able to create different shapes and sizes with your imagination and will, and if you are powerful enough, you will even be able to surround your entire body with it. As I have said before, defensive spells are usually blue, the darker the blue, the stronger the magic. The cue for this spell is ‘Exarus’, I am going to demonstrate a few times.

  Bella raised her wand.

  “Exarus.”

  A fine, dark blue, energetic forcefield appeared about a meter away from Bella as she said the cue, and after holding the forcefield for roughly twenty seconds, it disappeared as she lowered her wand again.

  “This spell is extremely important for you, I want you to focus on this spell until you can hold it for a good amount of time.”

  Bella demonstrated and explained Alice through the spell a few more times, creating different shapes and sizes with the shield each time she produced the spell, and on her final demonstration she produced a magic shield that covered her entire body, holding it for over a minute.

  “Wow, that’s impressive” said Alice.

  “That’s what you need to be able to get to. Alright, let’s see it” said Bella.

  Alice and Bella stayed out on the balcony practicing and going through the magic shield spell, and over an hour later, Alice had gotten quite a good grasp on it.

  “Now you know what you need to do, keep practicing holding the spell and changing the shapes and sizes of the shield” said Bella as they walked back inside.

  “Thanks, Bella.”

  “Of course. Well, I better get back to the council, I’ll see you on Monday for our next session” said Bella, walking over to the door.

  “Yep, see you then. Good luck.”

  After Bella had left the apartment, Alice poured herself a glass of water and then walked into the bedroom, grabbing The Natural Laws of Karma off the desk and lying down on the bed.

  I write this book as a gift, a gift that I have been granted permission to pass on to the souls of the world in hope that the beautiful light of purity may shine upon all who read, a gift that has been revealed to me by the all wise trees of the Black Forest.

  The gift that I bring to you is The Natural Laws of Karma. Karma is the perfect balancer of existence, it is the way souls grow and evolve. It is ignorance, and it is purity. It is suffering, and it is bliss. It is evil, and it is goodness. It is that which governs all things, it is the nature of nature itself.

  Upon reading the divine logic of The Natural Laws of Karma, you will undoubtedly come to see that once you have comprehended the nature of karma itself and have devoted yourself to the forces of goodness and purity, the true path to the divine, supreme spirit will be found.

  Kyra Valeria

  Larisha

  Alice walked out onto the balcony to strike the troll a few times, it was a beautiful, sunny day and she had had a productive morning, finishing both her Way of Souls assessment and the second assessment, which was conveniently on Willpower, Intuition & Imagination.

  Alice struck the troll a few times and then walked back inside, rolling up her assessment scrolls and then making her way downstairs and down to the Student Plaza, she had decided to attend the Shamanic Journeying I lecture at 1pm after handing in her assessments.

  Alice transported through to the Education Department and walked up to the one of elderly ladies sitting behind the reception desk.

  “Hi, I’m here to hand in some assessments” said Alice.

  “What study, my dear?” replied the woman, she had long, curly grey hair, fairly large shoulders and was slightly hunched over.

  “Introduction program” said Alice as she placed the scrolls onto the reception bench.

  “Ah, very well, I’ll get them to Simona for you” said the woman, curiously staring at Alice for a moment.

  “Thanks.”

  “Have a good day, my dear.”

  Alice walked over to the elevator and made her way up to Lecture Hall 12, sitting down in one of the middle rows next to a girl who looked a few years younger than her.

  “Hi” said the girl as Alice sat down.

  “Hi, it’s pretty busy, huh” replied Alice.

  “Yeah, they should have more than one of these lectures per week.”

  The lecture hall was busier than the last lecture that Alice had attended and there were people of all ages inside. The lecturer was a woman with short, brown hair who looked to be in her mid-thirties, and after a couple of minutes of playing with the microphone and setting up the screen, she began.

  “Good afternoon, thank you all for coming. My name is Natalie and I will be your lecturer for today. You are all most likely familiar with the term shamanic journeying, shamanic journeying is the practice of travelling to remote places and worlds from within. Through meditation, self-discipline and trance, once one has learnt to channel their inner world and see beyond the darkness, a whole new world of discoveries and potential knowledge and wisdom will open to them. Throughout – “

  The lecturer was suddenly interrupted, someone had opened the lecture hall door, and as the door opened, Blue flew inside and landed on Alice’s shoulder, dropping a scroll onto her lap.

  There was quiet laughter that spread throughout the hall as Alice embarrassingly opened the scroll.

  Alice Teller

  Hi Alice, I am taking my little sister to Larisha today at 3pm to see the Lavera castle, she has already seen it numerous times but insists on going again. I thought you might not have seen Larisha yet, so if you don’t have any plans this afternoon and would like to join us, you are more than welcome. If so, we can meet at the café where we met before the festival at 2.30pm, let me know.

  Also, my last name is Clamont for the letter.

  Lisa

  “He’s very cute, miss, but unfortunately there are no ravens allowed in the Lecture Halls” said the lecturer politely, smiling at Alice.

  There was another wave of quiet laughter throughout the hall.

  “Did you hear that, Blue?” Alice whispered, looking at Blue.

  “Sorry, he won’t do it again” said Alice, speaking into the small microphone on the wooden platform in front of her.

  “Only if it’s very important” Alice then whispered to Blue.

  Alice quickly and awkwardly pressed her wand against the back of the scroll.

  Lisa Clamont

  Hi Lisa, that sounds great, thank you for the invite. See you at 2.30.

  Alice

  Alice quickly rolled up the scroll and gave it to Blue, who then flew off through the hall and out the door that someone was holding open for him.

  “How did my raven have someone else’s letter?” Alice whispered to the girl next to her.

  “The other raven must of given it to him when it couldn’t find you or realized you were here, ravens have a better sense of where their owners are than other ravens do, it’s quite common” said the girl, giving Alice a curious look.

  The lecturer then continued.

  “As I was saying, throughout this series of lectures, we will be covering topics such as techniques for shamanic journeying, cautions and precautions, how to move and navigate in the astral and non-ordinary worlds, the difference between astral travel and shamanic journeying, symbolism and its meanings, commonly encountered creatures and beings, how to deal with and protect yourself against negative entities, plants, brews, fungi and aides used for shamanic journeying and the difference between shamanic journeying and divination among others. I would also like it to be known before we start today, that shamanic journeying must be practiced with extreme precaution. There are many dangers that can present themselves to one who is not prepared for what they have undertaken, the eye of the mind must only be opened when one is truly ready and has disciplined and prepared themselves. Shamanic journeying must be carefully approached and is a practice that will take many years, if not li
fetimes to master.”

  Alice was fascinated and glued to the lecturer for the entire hour, she now understood what she had been doing whilst she was back in the material and how she had come to make contact with the watchers.

  After the lecture ended, Alice quickly went up to the cafeteria to eat before transporting back to the Student Plaza to meet Lisa.

  “Hello, guys” said Alice as she walked into the café and sat down next to Lisa and her younger sister.

  “Hey, Alice, this is Petra” said Lisa.

  “Hi, Alice, Lisa told me that you crossed, have you been to Larisha before?” asked Petra, seemingly eager to chat.

  Petra looked no older than ten and had long, braided, brown hair and was quite thin like Lisa.

  “Nice to meet you, Petra, I haven’t, no.”

  Petra’s face lit up.

  “Wow, you’ll like it” she said excitedly.

  “How have you been feeling?” asked Lisa.

  “Yeah, I’m all good now, I was feeling a little weird yesterday, how about you?”

  “Yeah, I’m good, that snake will probably haunt me forever though” said Lisa.

  “I had a few flashbacks yesterday, it was horrible.”

  “I saw Brian today, he seems better, he couldn’t come today but he gave me your name so I could write to you” said Lisa.

  “That’s a funny story actually, my raven flew into the lecture hall to give me the letter.”

  Lisa and Petra both laughed.

  “Really?” asked Petra with an amused look on her face.

  “Yeah, he’s still young.”

  “That’s so funny, what lecture did you go to?” asked Lisa.

  “Shamanic Journeying I.”

  “Nice, there’s a couple of book stores in Larisha that specialize in that sort of stuff, a few of the Laveras were powerful shamans” said Lisa.

  “Who are the Laveras?” asked Alice curiously.