Meditation on symbols.

Piero Ferrucci : What we may be, techniques for psychological and spiritual growth though psychosynthesis: Penguin 2004. page 119-120

THE LIGHTHOUSE

Let us now turn our attention to a visualization exercise that focuses on another symbol – one coming from the man-made world this time: the lighthouse. You are on a small ship at sea, at night. A storm is raging, and the rain beats down on the deck. The ship is rolling and pitching. All around is darkness. Feel the rolling and pitching of the ship, hear the wind howling, feel the chill of the wind and rain on your face. See the stormy sea at night. Experience the fatigue in your muscles and the difficulty with which you wrestle with the wheel. Now, in the distance, you can see a dazzling light shining. Its source is a lighthouse. Its steady, radiant beam guides you though the night. You welcome this guidance with relief. Now you know where to steer. Concentrate on the lighthouse, and visualize its light radiating in all directions to help people who have lost their way, to give guidance to all who need it. The storm is raging, the wind howling, the rain falling, the night pitch-black. But the lighthouse stands solid and shinning nothing can shake it. After a time, let the visualization gradually subside, yet keep within you this sense of shining strength.