If you have been working with any sacred geometry books, including MerKaBa knowledge, you may find this book a wonderful followup, but nothing will replace a MerKaBa Classic Workshop (the Original 17-Breath Meditation).
You can find it in a fully digitized format online at www.MaureenStGermain.com/MerKaBa. Give yourself this gift; you will thank me later!
1 History of the MerKaBa and Important Notes for Your Practice
This was the last training Drunvalo personally taught on the 17-Breath Original MerKaBa.
I never thought I would eventually give up my full-time, well-paid corporate job to be a full-time spiritual teacher.
I did not give him a clear answer because I have a policy about sacred information: unless you are in a class or training session with me, I require that you ask me twice before I release any spiritual knowledge. Usually the first time someone asks it’s based on noticing you are different, but the person may not be ready to hear the answer.
Later, as a teacher of this knowledge, I asked for and received direct guidance from Source on how to develop this connection, and spent seven years perfecting the process. My goal was to build a library of tools for my students to help them identify and know with absolute certainty that their Higher Self direction was real, provable, and authentic.
Translated literally from the Hebrew, the noun merkavah means “chariot to ride in” and relates to the throne-chariot of God in prophetic visions. A likeness of a man drives the chariot.
The MerKaBa as we mean it here is a Body of Light or Light Body. It is activated from a geometric field that exists around the body. Everyone has this field around them, as do planets, solar systems, and other living entities. This means learning it is a remembering experience for humans. Once you have remembered the MerKaBa, you choose to activate it daily until it becomes permanent. Do not worry; it will. The spinning of counter-rotating fields is found throughout the cosmos. This spinning is an accurate reflection of nature. In the Zohar, the mystical commentary on the Judaic Torah, there is a reference to the MerKaBa and the four wheels spinning “without turning,” so I believe the information we have today is both ancient and accurate, and was already known at some level long before the MerKaBa became available to all of humanity. The MerKaBa is mentioned in the Old Testament in Ezekiel 1:10.
I now know it to be a fifth-dimensional garment that we remember and activate. It is not necessary to acquire it, since it is already there. It is from the future of a more advanced version of us. This, combined with the Christ Consciousness Grid around the earth, ensures our Ascension.
This may be why there is very little written. I share this constraint as I, too, have come to understand how very powerful it is. Proceed with caution and reverence! This book will not teach the MerKaBa that you must learn from other sources, such as my video seminar. This is for supplemental work.
Why Was a Combination of Methods Chosen from Hindu, Egyptian, Hebrew, Tibetan, and Other Traditions for the Original 17-Breath Meditation?
Out of the Hundreds of Mudras, How and Why Were These Chosen? There are mudras, or meditative hand gestures, to accompany each of the seventeen breaths: Part I, the First Six Breaths: The mudras for the first six breaths are related to the meridians in the body that move through the fingers. There are six meridians; one is not on the fingers and is a redundant one. Also, the number six is directly related to the six external points of the star-tetrahedron, or Divine Light Body. There are actually eight points of the MerKaBa as you work your way around the star-tetrahedrons, but two reside in the axis points and get cleared each time you pulse. It is possible to repeat the same mudras and breaths up to eight if you wish, but those numbered one through six are all that is necessary.
Part II, Breaths 7–13: For breaths seven through fourteen, the mudra of your thumb and first two fingers is a balance of male/female and neutral (see figure 1.1). One of the goals of those breaths is to bring you into full balance. This includes every aspect of you coming into balance with YOURSELF and within yourself.
Part III, Breath 14: The last mudra, used from Breath 14 onward, balances either male or female, depending on what is needed for the individual (see figure 1.2). Each person selects one or the other position. This mudra places the right hand on top or the left hand on top. Most men have the left hand on top and most women have the right hand on top, but yours could be the reverse. The right hand on top adds male energy to the field; the left hand on top adds female energy. Women usually need more male energy and vice versa. When one does not identify with their gonads, it could be reversed.
Likewise, when you turn on the MerKaBa at Breath 15, you do not yet have a “complete” system, which is why the rotational speed is one-third the speed of light, the same speed as an electron that is temporarily “homeless.”
These activation codes are directly related to the physical body and our evolution process, and they are reconfirmed by science. Anyone attempting to create a MerKaBa with Kabbalistic numbers or master numbers (energetic numerologybased numbers) totally misses this point.
Do not change the MerKaBa activation codes to some other numbers. You could become physically or mentally ill, or worse. Breath 17 activates the relationship to nine-tenths the speed of light. The mental body star-tetrahedron is the only one spinning at nine-tenths (the speed of light). The emotional body star-tetrahedron is spinning at nine-tenths the speed of light (c) divided by 34/21 (1.61904761904… ). That means the emotional body star-tetrahedron is spinning at 0.760857 the speed of light (that is, slower.) That ratio, nine-tenths the speed of light, is the exact same speed that electrons move around the nucleus of an atom.
You guessed it, 0.9 the speed of light. Why would they choose that speed? I believe it is because they are looking for information that helps define the differences found at the quantum level (subatomic) and the physical matter reality of the world in which we live.
How Will You Know If Your MerKaBa Is Permanent? Answer: Ask your Higher Self. Any other method to determine this answer is inferior.
All sensing is inferior to knowing. Knowing comes from the Higher Self, as it requires no proof.
Purple Cones Coming Off the MerKaBa If you watch the old Drunvalo MerKaBa videos as many times as I have (I estimate more than 600 times), you start to see things nobody else has seen. So many insights and so much information has come to me while watching them. Much of the content of this book is based on my being in incredible alpha to theta states while watching.
To those of you who think you found the eighteenth breath and have attempted to use it, I wish you well. It is an elusive matter. The more you chase it, the more hidden it is.
Then whenever you wish to create something (as taught later in this book) you will ask your Higher Self, Is it in my highest and best good? Is it in the highest and best good of those who would be affected by my actions? In this way you will avoid miscreations.
Drugs and Other Stimulants—Some Very Important Information
The sacred gifts from Mother Earth are forbidden without the use of an elder shaman who is initiating you. It is never appropriate to do any type of earthly mind-altering drugs even if they are from Mother Earth.
These substances would never be used for recreational purposes, and never, never, never used on a regular basis. Even when they are administered, it is always as initiatory experiences to jump-start your connection with the Divine.
The Violet Flame is a marvelous tool and may be useful to augment the MerKaBa, but it is not part of the MerKaBa. The Violet Flame is a dispensation from St. Germain and the Great White Brotherhood5 for mankind, to give humanity a lift and an edge to get past our karmic situations.
Our discarded energy is recycled by Mother Earth and used appropriately. The Violet Flame transmutes human suffering and expression so that we can feel our connection with God, but you do not need to imbue the MerKaBa with the Violet Flame. The MerKaBa is about God identity, so it is already fully connected to God.
The true nature of a mystery school is to study something until you have integrated the knowledge.
The ancient teachings are based on an oral tradition that requires an initiate to absorb, repeat, and relay the teachings hundreds or more times while the teacher observes and makes sure the understanding is clear. This tradition also ascertains that the student can express those teachings in a clear and concise manner.
Wearing the mantle of the teacher is a powerful and significant responsibility. It is only bestowed upon persons who have gone through many initiations to prove their worth and their willingness to be students of Source.
You will understand this complex meditation and activate your MerKaBa in a video that is a total of four hours for the condensed version, or about fifteen hours if you opt for the full version. You may choose to meet with like-minded people, create a community event, learn heart-opening exercises, and practice the MerKaBa until you get it right.
2 New Tools for Learning and Practicing Unconditional Love
Drunvalo says without the heart connection your MerKaBa will not go anywhere or even be effective. However, I have really good news for you. In spite of everything, if all you do is the MerKaBa, your heart will open. You cannot continue to activate your MerKaBa daily, getting all the elements of yourself in perfect balance, without opening your heart. In other words, activating your MerKaBa will result in opening your heart.
Learning the meditation takes four focused hours in a MerKaBa workshop. Practicing it takes no more than five minutes daily. This is not a big investment for the results you will achieve that will be with you for the rest of your life.
Working with the Hathors
The Hathors are interdimensional galactic beings already anchored in this dimension by virtue of their fifth-dimensional presence on Venus. It is not just one whole race; they are a species. The Hathors are the most intelligent, most advanced race of enlightened beings in our solar system, more advanced than the dolphins. They represent only peace and love, and communicate through singing or toning, not spoken words.
The Hathors work with the ankh, the hieroglyphic symbol of life, using uninterrupted circular breathing and toning.
They are willing and able to assist you with your heart opening, but remember, we are in a free-will zone, so it is up to you to ask for their help. Expecting them to help you will not bring their help; you must seek it!
One place you can hear their toning is on my MerKaBa II CD. It was recorded with Hathor toning in the background, to elevate your MerKaBa experience and support you in opening your heart to the level of the Hathors.
Stay Open to the Energy Stay open to the way the Hathors manifest their energy to you. My first experience with them was as feline energy.
If you ever hear your name being sung to you as if the sound is coming through water, you are hearing the sounds of the Hathors. There is a warble and waver in the sound, and it may be audible only to you. Their tones can also be found in the warble of your own voice when they overshadow your toning. You can make a practice of toning to develop their presence. Practice your toning and ask them to join you, lead you, embrace you, and love you. Ask for their vibration of love to embrace you and all with whom you interact. Ask them to become one with your heart. Ask them to overshadow you while you are dealing with a difficult situation. It is their joy to serve in this way.
THE “I LOVE YOU” EXERCISE A Writing and Speaking Exercise to Open Your Heart
Give yourself permission to look at yourself from the other person’s perspective. If you are able, you might connect at the soul level with each person (or at least some of them), and then you may be able to hear them telling you exactly how they love you.
Listen to Mother Earth speaking to you with gratitude for all you do for her. Hear Father Sky giving you compliments for who you are and the joy you bring to the earth, the care you take to assist with the environment, and other things you do to support the ecosystem.
Then name something, whatever you choose, to no longer be an obstacle in your world. You might write something like, “Every day I am surrounded by people who help me to perfect me in the most loving and joyous way. When I need a reminder to be patient, it allows me to appreciate someone else’s presence in my world and it helps me to grow and learn.” Another example might be, “When I forget important details, it gives others the opportunity to see how important they are in interacting with me. When I graciously receive their reminders, they feel important, loved, and appreciated by me. This, in turn, teaches me to be more attentive to details, for which I am grateful.”
Clearing the Residue of an Abusive, Unloving Parent You are about to learn a very specific technique for clearing your subconscious of all the old programming of anything less than unconditional love. I developed this tool based on years of sales experience when I needed to counter objections by potential buyers. It occurred to me that a person could answer and clear inner objections in the
same way. This is a technique that will slip by your internal gatekeeper and allow the new statement to be seeded into your subconscious.
For example, if your mother always criticized the way you dressed you would write the following script: “(Your name), I used to criticize the way you dressed and questioned your taste in clothes, but now I see you have beautiful taste and are always well put together, and I am so proud of you.” If you experienced a hypercritical parent who thought you could do nothing right you might write: “(Your name), when you were younger I always said you could not do anything, but now I see clearly that you can do anything you put your mind to, and I am so proud of you!” Each time you will rewrite the script in a very precise way. If you could put words in the critic’s mouth, what would you like to hear from that person? As you rewrite the script of the people you wished had loved you unconditionally, make sure you examine the statements so that they contain the following elements: A clear reference to before (I used to think or say…) Followed by the derogatory statement (may be a milder version) Followed by “but now I can see… ” Ending with a statement that is completely unconditional and supportive
Always write the first part of the statement in the past tense. Use phrases like, “When you were…” or “I used to think that…” followed by “but now” and then the reframe. This is a technique that will slip by your internal gatekeeper and allow the new statement to be seeded in your subconscious.
You do not need to write why the person said those painful words. In fact, it is counterproductive to write the why because it takes you back into a place of judgment and rationalization. None of that matters. When you are completing a fifth-dimensional “reframe” like this, polarity doesn’t matter. You do not care why the person did it. Knowing the real reason will not make any sense to you anyway. At some point you might even be in a place where you will no longer need to forgive anyone for anything.
Record Your “I Love You” Statements Once you have written the exercise, recording it should be easy. It is important that you record this right away after writing it, so have your recording device at the ready. Do not delay. If you don’t have a recorder you probably have a cell phone or answering machine. Use that. No excuses. If you have no other option, you can always call yourself leaving a message on your voicemail. This one exercise will so transform your inner you that you will become a magical being, far more loving than you ever knew was possible. Trust me, this is amazing. When you record yourself, imagine you are your Higher Self, the loving being who sees you from all vantage points and knows your true, beloved essence. This is God in you, speaking to you, in your voice, loving you. Pick a quiet spot, preferably with a comfortable chair and light. Test your equipment. Play some nice background music. Remember, you are loved and are loveable. Practice reading it once or twice without recording it. Get familiar with the words you’ve written. Let yourself feel the love others have for you. Think of someone you love. That will help you open your heart.
Speak to yourself the way you would like others to speak to you. Speak with gentleness and softness, clarity, and great love. Speak with joy. You are now ready to record. Speak the words of “I love you” addressing you. Record it in its entirety, both the positive feedback and the reframe statements. Revisit your recording in a few days to consider making some changes: You may want to consider rewriting and rerecording it. You may remember more people who have said loving statements you can include. You may want to change or reword what you wrote. You may want to add or change background music.
the date you will be completed with this exercise the first time (forty-five days from when you start it): ___________. This targets your completion date, when you know you will be transformed. You will become one with your heart. You will become one with the love you wish to send out to the world. Remember, before you can completely love anyone else unconditionally, you must learn to love yourself unconditionally. This single exercise will do more to help you transform your past than any other thing you can do for yourself. Please do not procrastinate. You will be able to move mountains from this practice. None of what I will give you in this book as information will be as personally powerful as the exercise of playing the “I love you” recording to yourself for forty-five or more days. You will find it extremely useful when you’ve had a particularly bad day, where you may be yelling at someone or feeling very judgmental. In my personal experience as a single parent with four sons, sometimes I was pushed to the max. On the occasions that I felt my tone was too harsh, or whenever I…
SELF-FORGIVENESS This next exercise is deceptively easy. Doing this exercise immediately following the previous exercise should be spectacular. The first time you do this, stand in front of a mirror. Hug yourself. Look at yourself with love. You might imagine that you are looking at yourself as a child, your child, for indeed,…
Say, “I forgive you for all the times you let me down. I know we agreed beforehand to experience all these things together in order to learn. Thank you for your willingness and courage. I love and appreciate you for all that you are.” Say, “I accept the love from God as it flows through my entire body, into every organ, nerve, bone, and cell. I let this high-frequency energy nurture me from the inside out, replacing dense resistance with joy and light.” Take some time. Relax and enjoy it. Feel the sureness of renewed energy and well-being. Know…
FORGIVENESS EXERCISE This amazing exercise has been around for a long time. My sister Chris told me about it originally. I’ve used this process many times, and I have some amazing things to report about it. Starting today and every day for forty-five days, write out the names of everyone you need to forgive. Set your goal completion date forty-five days from now on your calendar, to make it easier to remember. List the names of individuals you need to forgive. Then write one of the following statements, or something similar that feels right to you: I forgive anyone I think has…
Just as in the previous exercise, it would be counterproductive because you would be reverting to a place of judgment and…
You and I do not care why they did it. Knowing the real reason will not make any sense to you anyway. Even the Course in Miracles…
I am on day 4 of the forgiveness exercise. I am listing not only people but events and actions. I find that 90 percent of all the stuff I need to forgive has to do with only myself. Most of my list is a version of “I forgive myself for…” What I am realizing is that most if not all of my ‘stuff’ around ‘being wronged’ has everything to do with my filters, perceptions, and journey, and nothing to do with others or what I perceived they had done to me according to my reality at the time. I believe that this clarity is due to the work.
Ancestral Clearing
But time and time again when investigating someone’s issues, I find problems that stretch back generations. Their spirit is not just an individual entity, it is also part of the family spirit that births and nurtures it. The next exercise comes to us from a wonderful teacher, Tony Stubbs, who encourages us to take this step for ourselves. It is called an ancestral clearing and it is a powerful tool. Speak this aloud to yourself: I now rescind any and all vows that I have taken to experience the illusion of unconsciousness. As Lightbearer of my genetic lineage, I break these vows for myself and for all of my ancestors. I declare these vows null and void in this incarnation, and all of our incarnations across time and space, parallel realities, parallel universes, alternate realities, alternate universes, all planetary systems, all Source systems, and all dimensions. I ask for release of all crystals, devices, thought forms, emotions, matrices, veils, cellular memory, pictures of reality, genetic limitation, and death—NOW! Under the Law of Grace and by the Decree of Victory! By the Decree of Victory! By the Decree of Victory! As Spirit wills, I ask for Awakening. As Spirit wills, we are awake! In the beginning, I AM THAT I AM! B’ray-sheet, Eh-yah esher Eh-yah!2 Remember that all the exercises and clearing we do enable us to more easily and fully open our hearts to unconditional love.
Susan Sheppard, author of The Phoenix Cards, tells us that at death our brain cells die and memory is wiped out, causing our memory to need to be rejuvenated in a subsequent lifetime.
The record keepers tell us to imagine a public library. The main branch is where the Akashic Records reside (in the eleventh dimension). Though you may also find what you are looking for in a local branch.6
You can instantly let go of old patterns that you did not realize were not your true self! If you have the resources, please find this book and deck and work with them.
Expect a Blow to the Heart As you move into mastery, expect a blow to the heart. What is a blow to the heart? It is an emotional experience that will occur as a result of some unexpected behavior. It typically will occur because someone you are in relationship with does something, or fails to do something, yet you feel the person knew the correct action and should have made a different choice.
When you are in relationship with someone who disappoints you over something you think the person should know or understand, it hurts. I call this a blow to the heart. This occurs as a result of your close interaction with your dear friend or beloved. Only someone this close has the ability to give you this transformational upgrade.
We all have layers and layers of armor around our hearts, and we add new layers every time we get hurt. This is how we survive. This is normal for all of us as we move from childhood to adulthood; we spend the first thirty years of our lives getting settled into our bodies, building up the ego and the armor around the heart. We spend the remainder of our lives trying to undo this process! Most of the armor-building is done by the ego, which interprets reality and helps us perceive what is safe and not safe. The ego has done a terrific job of keeping us safe so far and believes these protections are necessary, but the ego is not always accurate.
She allows the blow to expand her heart, giving him room to change or exit.
How could you refuse a blow to the heart knowing it is going to give you what you really want—an open, clear channel to your Higher Self and an open heart?
A Blow to the Heart: Ascension Rocket Fuel The heart is the translator for Higher Self information. The more open your heart is, the clearer the incoming information will be.
You should never accept the same inappropriate behavior from someone consistently. If the same friend does the same type of thing more than twice, her status gets downgraded to acquaintance. We let our loved ones and friends help and teach us by administering a blow to the heart, but if it becomes abuse, we need to walk away. Releasing your attachment to being wronged (by a friend, again I am not referring to a perpetrator here) will assist you greatly here. You know you were wronged; that is useful to know. Next decide that the other person’s mission for you has succeeded—that helping you gain a quantum heart opening is accomplished.
Much loss is associated with pain. When a child outgrows his childhood toys, does he cry for them? Only if it is not his idea to let them go. If you move too quickly you may find that your job, spouse, friends, and career all change abruptly, and even though you say you are ready to do whatever it takes, perhaps you’re not. Ready or not, a blow to the heart will give you advancement after advancement in your spiritual connection with your own Higher Self and with God. It is worth it.
Even when the strike to your heart is so deep and searing that you wail with agony, know that your activated MerKaBa will be the secure environment for your heart to stay open and create a greater pathway of unconditional love to flow through you. Like a volcanic crater that blows open, your heart may feel as if there is a huge wound. Yet with the MerKaBa in place you can heal all of this pain in an instant. How do you do this? When you are ready, acknowledge the other person has done the job well. This acknowledgment need only be in your own thought. Be clear that that person’s whole purpose was to help you get to this state of openness. That will release the charge that keeps you and the other person locked, and frees you from your pain.
3 Toning, Chants, and Exercises to Open Your Heart
Toning Toning is singing a specific set of sounds, sometimes specific words, and is usually repeated, which produces a certain vibration of resonance. This resonance will enable you to change your thoughts. It happens at a vibration level rather than a thought level. Because the chant’s vibrations are repeated waves, their resonance within the body causes the change.
Key Factors of Toning Toning creates the rarified state of instant fulfillment. This means that toning makes us pure simply by vibrating a pure tone through our bodies, which produces instant connection with all that is.
If a note is missing in your energy field, playing it on an instrument or reproducing it through the voice allows your body to replicate the missing vibration for itself. All vibrational healing works with this principle. You can heal emotional traumas through toning, which means your body can heal itself through sounding a tone that is missing.
Here is an excerpt from The Hathor Material about the words in this chant: In our worlds we have sounds for each of these four sacred elements: el is earth, ka is fire, leem is water, and om is space, or air. These four constitute a vibrational continuum. It is possible to chant the sounds of these elements and enter the archetypal reality in which they exist. It is as if these sounds open the door of perception and allow you to move into the resonant field of consciousness where the archetypal reality of the elements is alive. Indeed, entering into that realm and staying there for a while enables you to shift consciousness and perception in such a way that you sense the profundity of the physical world and also its place within the continuum of consciousness.
When the bodies are lined up, coherent, connected, and communicating with each other, you are in alignment.
Emotional Body
Emotions are energy that holds a purpose or feeling. Emotions reside in the fascia, or connective tissue. When the same emotional wound occurs, the fascia retains divots that accumulate more of the same wound. The Orion Series oils lift and dissolve these stuck emotions. The Intention disc reformats the stretched-out fascia like spandex returning from the laundry. Ascension tools make easy work of clearing your emotions.
This way you can focus more fully on the chant. Chant the names of the elements in a state of reverence and discover that an inner world opens far beyond your imagination. Be aware that the Hathors may cause you to feel like you cannot move. Their energy may “freeze” your physical body while they work on you and clear your pranic tube. Don’t let this frighten you; instead say, “Thank you.” After completing the chant take an additional ten minutes of complete stillness and silence. This is quite profound.
The Hathors ask you to chant four times and only in repetitions of four (for example, 4x, 8x, 16x, and so on). The Hathors show up to work with you in groups of four; one in front, one behind, one on your left, and one on your right, which is why they prefer repetitions of four. Ideally you would recite this four to the fourth power, 44, which totals 256 repetitions.
Chanting Is Timeless
Om Mani Padme Hum is a Buddhist mantra, which is also used by Grandmaster Lin Yun’s Black Sect Feng Shui as one of the three secret reinforcements for the purpose of energizing a cure or an enhancement.
You can chant or sing this mantra, and there are many recordings available worldwide. My favorite is by Philip Glass.
The purpose of repeating these names in ever-shuffling combinations is a simple one: to merge with the Divine.
Composer and pianist Philip Glass has led the charge in bringing lesser-known chants to the West. His Freedom Chants from the Roof of the World, with the Gyuto monks, Kitaro, and Mickey Hart, was recorded at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York during the first Chinese crackdown on Tibet. The twenty-one monks are from the 500-year-old Gyuto tantric order, chanting for freedom and world peace.
Chanting in the King’s Chamber Another location well-known for its acoustical properties is the King’s Chamber inside the Great Pyramid in Egypt. Sounds from the Great Pyramid is a 2-CD set that recreates the experience of toning inside the King’s Chamber.
How Does Chanting Affect Your Ascension Work? Any form of ritual vocalizing or toning and chanting will bypass the brain and go for resonance. This tells us it doesn’t require thinking or emotional processing to heal an emotional wound.
Only when the heart is coherent, as in feelings of love and connectedness, can the energy come through in force. Resonance and coherence in an orderly system are tools allowing for access to the energies from higher realms. With your MerKaBa activated you have stepped up this process. It is real and measurable.