The Inner Guide Meditation: A Spiritual Technology for the 21st Century

279 Pages·2006·7.13 MB·English

by  Edwin C Steinbrecher

THE
INNER G U I D E
MEDITATION
A Spiritual Technology
for the 21st Century
Edwin C. Steinbrecher
SAMUEL WEISER, INC.
York Beach, Maine
First published in 1988 by
Samuel Weiser, Inc.
R O. Box 612
York Beach, Maine 03910-0612
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Copyright © 1988 Edwin C. Steinbrecher
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or trans-
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Reviewers may quote brief passages.
1st Edition: An Excerpt from "The Guide Meditation, "April, 1975,
private printing, Santa Fe, NM.
2nd Edition: The Guide Meditation: The Manual on Theory and
Technique, July, 1975, private printing, Santa Fe, NM.
3rd Edition: The Guide Meditation, 1977, private printing, Santa
Fe, NM.
4th Edition: The Inner Guide Meditation, 1978, Blue Feather Press,
Santa Fe, NM.
5th Edition: The Inner Guide Meditation: A Transformative Journey
to Enlightenment and Awareness, 1982, The Aquarian Press,
London, England.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 85-51591
ISBN 0-87728-657-4
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Cover illustration is a painting titled Aquarius Rising.
Copyright © 1988 Joe Rizzo. Used by kind permission.
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Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Foreword ix
Preface to Revised Sixth Edition xi
Part 1: Basic Concepts 1
Introduction 3
The Archetypes 6
The Tarot 8
Astrology 9
Projection 12
Active Imagination 21
Becoming Conscious 24
The Initial Experiments 29
False Guides and False Guidance 43
Part 2: Inner Guide Meditation and
the Kundalini Effect 51
How to Contact the Inner Guide 53
Working with Your Guide 67
Kundalini 74
Part 3: Questions and Answers 93
Part 4: Technical Aspects 205
How to Translate a Horoscope into Tarot Terms 207
How to Plug Your Relatives into Your Horoscope 246
The Inner Guide Meditation and the IChing 252
Appendix: Transiting Positions of Pluto,
Neptune, Uranus and Saturn 259
Recommended Reading 265
D.O.M.E. Services 273
About the Author 275
Index 277
Acknowledgments
Ghateful acknowledgment is made to Inner Traditions Interna-
tional, Ltd., 1 Park Street, Rochester, VT 05767; Oxford Univer-
sity Press, 200 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016; Princeton
University Press, Princeton, NJ 08540; the Sabian Publishing Soci-
ety, 2324 Norman Road, Stanwood, WA 98292; and to Mitch
Walker/Treeroots Press, P. O. Box 684, Berkeley, CA 94704, for
their kind permissions to utilize materials from their respective
publications.
I would also like to thank all the people and groups, past and
present, who have helped in their many and varied ways to produce
this present work. Special thanks to my parents, Edwin E. and
Helen S. Steinbrecher, to my God-mother, Josephine M. Siska —
the real founder of D.O.M.E. —who introduced my family to
astrology and metaphysics, to David Benge, Maggie Bott, Stephen
P, Connors, Maryanne Hastings, Michael Sean Tierney, and John
Woodsmall of D.O.M.E., the Inner Guide Meditation Center, for
their inspiration and support over the years, to Steven Hechter for
.ilways appearing to help edit and advise just when I have to get a
new edition out, to Leigh McCloskey, Carol Hurd Rodgers and
Sheila W. Ross for their beautiful artwork for this book, to Karl T.
Tani for both his graphics and his tarot illustrations, and to my five
known Inner Guides, Aman, George, Ta, Emily and Simon.
Foreword
The investigation of the inner world of the soul has long been the
special province of what is known as occultism. Some forms of
religion have also attempted much the same task —especially the
Eastern ones —limited, however, by some original revelation which
hampered the free reign of scientific method. It is only in relatively
recent times that some schools of modern psychology have turned
their attention to that same area, and in the process of doing so
developed their own peculiar techniques. The latter, curiously
enough, bear many resemblances to the more archaic methods that
are referred to as occult.
The author of this little handbook on meditation deserves an
enormous amount of credit for first having approached the possi-
bility of such methods through the medium of analytical psychol-
ogy, the method of Carl G. Jung. Since Steinbrecher was an astrol-
oger years before becoming an analyst and, it did not take him long
to perceive relationships and thus to attempt some kind of unifica-
tion of these different sets of ideas and techniques. So his hand-
book describes an amalgam of Jung's use of creative imagination,
astrology and the tarot. The author evidently knows what he is
doing, for he has evolved a viable system of self-discovery with all
sorts of fascinating overtones and undertones.
The book is clearly written, the technique vividly and plainly
described so that there is little room for misunderstanding as to
what the author means. The meditation often yields up entirely new
and unexpected types of information and interpretation relative to
the meaning of the tarot, for example, and/their relation to the
planetary symbols — and in turn to the psycho-physical structure of
the student.
Steinbrecher's directions are unambiguous and should be intel-
ligible to anybody with the least capacity for imaginative or occult
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work. I am certain this book, from the very tentative first edition of
only a few years ago to the umpteenth yet to come, will go down in
occult history as one of the most significant contributions to medi-
tation in modern times. Edwin Steinbrecher deserves any praise and
commendation that is handed out to him, for he has labored long
and patiently in this field especially to make The Inner Guide Medi-
tation the classic that it is well on its way to becoming.
Israel Regardie
Sedona, Arizona
1983
Preface to Revised Sixth Edition
It is now eighteen years since I discovered the Inner Guides as
entities specific to each person and more than ten years since the
first edition of The Inner Guide Meditation made its appearance in
the world. My view of the meditation continues to evolve and
expand. In a time when many systems for interacting with arche-
types and working on the inner planes abound, I continue to regard
the work with the Inner Guide and archetypes as the safest and
most specific way available for touching Spirit and for learning the
spiritual physics that governs everything in each of our perceived
realities. I see the book as a primer for the 21st century shaman and
the meditation as a spiritual technology for a technician of the
sacred.
A shaman is one who works with super-nature, that which is
beyond, but which interacts with and affects the physical plane.
The shaman of today no longer requires the rigid doctrines and
outdated traditions of other ages and times. The shaman is free —
wherever he or she resides—to discover, test and develop his or her
own unique spiritual path by working with personal Inner Guides.
And the developed shaman, perhaps evolving into priest or priest-
ess, is urgently needed for this post-Christian spiritual era we find
ourselves in. Exclusive religious forms and bibles interpreted dog-
matically have had their day. The time for outer gurus and hierar-
chical spiritual structures is done. We have left the influence of the
autocratic Fish of the first phase of our Piscean Age, and we now
can flow with the friendly Fish of the second phase.
Revisions and additions to this work will necessarily continue
until my death, since the wisdom given by interaction with the
archetypes and the knowledge others bring from their own inner
experiences continue the revelatory process. I feel like a man pol-
ishing a gem to enable it to reflect and refract more Light.
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May this book continue to reach and touch the lives of all of
you who have asked for a way to journey within to your own
spiritual sources. Blessed be your knowledge of Spirit. Sacred is
your Path.
Edwin C. Steinbrecher
D.O.M.E.
The Inner Guide Meditation Center
Los Angeles, California
November, 1987