Travelling Light: A call to great power through the nine inner places of truth, freedom and love consciousness
by Joseph Barry Martin, PhD with Miriam Sanua
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 Victoria, BC: Source Co-Creations 2007. 537 pp 10 pp bibliography US31.99 CAN $36.99 Available through josephmartin@shaw.ca www.SourceCo-Creations.com Joseph Martin with Miriam Sanua have put together an unusual book. It contains a wealth of discussions and suggestions for holistic health and healing. Martin presents wonderful varieties of stories, myths, meditations, questionnaires for self-exploration, and exercises for self-healing. I was particularly taken by the Jungian interpretations of Grimm’s Fairy Tales, which suggest ways that we can look more deeply into our own lives and relationships to find more profound understandings of our situations in life – in order to bring about the healings we seek.
I also resonate with the Martin’s and Sanua’s understandings of some of the functions of pain in our lives:
When the pain is greatest and completely unbearable, you will finally do something to find your life. Only then will you engage the process we call dropping off the edge of the world. You will need to crush the wall of false beliefs that exists between your individual psyche and the outer society’s cognition incarceration. This psychological wall, which the ancient shamans call the wall to inner remembrance, will impulse your soul to awaken. This is the beginning of the remembrance to being love. (p. 12)
And with their understanding of some of the challenges of life:
Sultan Walad, the son of Rumi, speaks to us about this new life in soul: “A human being must be born twice. Once from his mother, and again from his own body and his own existence. The body is like an egg, and the essence of man must become a bird in that egg through the warmth of love, and then he can escape from his body and fly in the eternal world of the soul beyond time and space. (p. 47)
This book is a labor of love, a compilation of an enormous, rich collection of healing morsels, meals and feasts. It is organized into chapters on holistic levels of being:
Divine-Human Physical;
Divine-Human Emotional and Inner Child;
Divine-Human Mental;
Divine-Human Spiritual;
Divine-Human Unconscious, Archetypes, Dreams, Shadow, Soul Parts and Inner Child; Divine-Human Creativity;
Divine-Human Soul Vocation and Abundance;
Divine-Human Mythology; and
Divine-Human Soul Relationships;
Each of these is discussed within First Nation Medicine Wheel aspects of the four directions.
Martin brings to this book his wonderful combination of Western university education, along with his many years of choosing to live with his Mohawk people – to reclaim this heritage.
To provide a taste of their writing, I quote at some length from the section on the Divine-Human Spiritual:
From a First Nations worldview it is respectful to give honour to mitakuye oyasin or ‘All Our Relations’ as we say. We are all part of One Sacred Hoop, and what happens to one happens to all. In this regard, we give care and concern to our conscious unity with minerals, plants, animals, other humans, and Ancestors, our Seven Generations of descendents from now, and all other beings in the universe.
We expand this awareness to consider our conscious integration with all the Suns, planets, stars, and galaxies, knowing them to be both highly intelligent beings and also where are Ancestors previously resided before coming to Mother Earth.
We experience the fact that, in the fourth and higher dimensions, as well as while living in this changing third dimension, all time is now, and all space is within our own heart and body. The centre of the universe is our own heart; and the centre of the universe is in every being’s heart – from the ant to the jaguar to all other humans. Knowing this, reverence is given to all creatures of the Creator who share this Good Red Road with us. Time and space converge in the Zero Point of Source and all your lifetimes are lived simultaneously in this very moment.
Developing acute awareness of the very subtle high etheric Spirit energies coming to and through us is, of course, crucial to living in both the Spirit and Earth worlds at the same time. Energetically, we are like radios. We can receive, transceive, transmute and transmit energies as they move through our Four Bodies. It is the heart that does the inner work of transformation and sending out healing, loving vibrations. This is given out at the frequencies that beings around you are able to receive.
When you are totally in tune consciously and energetically with Spiritual Masters and their traditions, you have the experience and knowing or gnosis which is the spiritual intuition that you are wanting to develop. In this process, the ego gives up its petty desires and lower materialistic addictions that keep the soul enslaved, and instead the ego dissolves devotionally into the Self in Source and finds its purposeful loving service in the world. And in order to get to this stage, one must first go on the underworld journey to find and attain the nine inner places of greater power.
Once your heroic journey is complete, at least the first spiral of it for there are many spirals back home to Source, then you will find that you are beauty inside, beauty outside, and beauty all around you, to paraphrase a Navajo chant. Life in each Now is a flow of grace and gratitude. You live in the inner heart of spiritual silence where infinite peace, joy, love and creativity abound. The Good Red Road of the Earthwalk and the Blue Road of Spirit merge to give you a Violet Unity Road, the Tehanakerehkwen blessing. You know and feel the unity of all the Grandmothers and Grandfathers enriching your days and nights. You have a Spirit world knowing of how life on Earth is to be lived for you personally, in every second. Deepest heart intuition guides you, no longer your ego planning circumstances of which it knows nothing. (pp. 298-299)
I found this a most stimulating book, despite the complexity of the organization and subdivisions of information that made it difficult for me to track some of the threads of the discussions. In seeking to understand the pattern of presentations, the Table of Contents was more helpful than the meager Index. Once I let go of my expectation of knowing where I was being led, and simply enjoyed the richness of the materials being shared, all was well and my reading was richly rewarded.
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