Would you like to know what metaphors really are, and how to work with metaphors most powerfully, regardless of whether you want to do this for therapy, for art, for creativity or simply because you know there's something incredibly magical about metaphors?

One of the core practices in NLP and personal development in general is to "visualise the desired outcome state" of a goal and to make it as real as possible.

Now I have my problems with the entire concept, but here's something for advanced Project Sanctuary users or beginner magicians, much the same thing really, that works a little different and may turn out to be slightly ... hmmmm ... well shall we be careful and say, more effective?

More transformative?

This is a very, very neat Project Sanctuary game that, if played correctly, will help "align the planes and the totality".

Its name comes from the observation that many women wear red stilettos on the outside, which are the sign of sexual availability, or the metaphor thereof, but "on the inside", they are really a librarian who wants to be admired for their book learning. Or vice versa!

This sort of thing is a form of massive incongruency which causes - well, catastrophes, really, from their love life to their "self concept", What it does to their energy systems, I can't begin to imagine, only that it can't be good, whatever that is ...

Here is a seemingly simple technique that combines lessons from advanced hypnotherapy, the quantum energy spaces and the new energy healing approaches to make bed time a time of true R&R for all parts of your mind and your body.

*This is a classic Project Sanctuary Pattern, adjusted for the general public or as an introduction to the benefits of PS.

This short article from 1997 states the basic ten presuppositions of the worlds from which Project Sanctuary originates.

Pink Patsy is a pattern which is applicable to very long standing problems of all kinds; at it's outside edges it becomes extremely complicated and hard to track in consciousness, but the central point is easily grasped.

I think it's probably a more important pattern than we have conceived of so far and invite you personally to both try it out as well as keep experimenting with various aspects of it. In the context of general Sanctuary interventions, it becomes highly relevant to any number of puzzles.

Named after its originator, David Grove, this is a very interesting and complex way of working with client generated metaphors to firstly find, then undo deeply repressed traumatic memories.

There are two basic and quite unique patterns from Grovian Metaphor Therapy which are of great help to Sanctuary processes.

As "Good Companions" to Project Sanctuary go, a finer friend is hard to find.

An extremely useful technique I would like to introduce is a method of increasing conscious - unconscious communications quickly, to be better able to visualise, and to be able to generate representations quickly and at will. This technique is Image Streaming by Win Wenger.

When this article was written on ideas how to use EFT Emotional Freedom Techniques to "unstick stuck PS puzzles, EFT was still new and hardly anyone had heard of it.

This is not now the case and as EFT can be really helpful even in the most esoteric of spaces and situations, here is a re-print of the original article.

Bored? Need something interesting to do?

Well, don't despair - Project Sanctuary is here for you.

Just pick an item that "catches your interest", close your eyes, let your head fall back and ... GO!

Do you like stories?

Thinking of scenarios and playing them in your mind, dreaming and living dreams in an altered state of awareness?

Genius & Creativity by Silvia Hartmann

Silvia Hartmann writes: In 1993, I developed a process that I called Project Sanctuary. I said that it improves Self Hypnosis, Psychic Abilities, Emotional Intelligence, Quantum Thinking, Spirituality, Creativity, Autogenic, Healing, AND that it is FUN. I appreciate that it sounds like hype, impossible, too much but it's true, it's proven, and it's absolutely REAL. I think it is about time more people got to the benefits of this which is still NEW, STARTLING and - OTHER THAN.

Confused or mystified about metaphor, simile, poetry and language? Need homework help on poems and metaphors? Is it all too much like standing in the middle of an enchanted realm but someone's tied your eyes shut and you just can't find the knot? Don't despair! Here's a really short, easy and simple 12 point mini-course on all things metaphorical!

The Making Of The Enchanted World by Silvia Hartmann

Poem about shamanic travel and live Mother Spider by Silvia Hartmann

Love Poem about remembrance Solace by Silvia Hartmann

I am calling far and wide - the purple flames are set alight, they radiate into the astral darkness and they call my fellow children of the night.

Poem Yesterday's Child by Silvia Hartmann

Must creativity be spontaneous to be real?

Can creativity and creative states be manufactured? Is creativity and accessing creative processes an accident, a gift from the muses or can it be ...

Your spirit came to me said, hey, I could do with brightening!

I have just been informed by the German translators of my books that I cannot use the word "totality" because it would remind the German speaking public of the word "totalitarian state", aka the 3rd Reich, and they'd all have a nervous breakdown.

That made me furious.

And it opened my eyes to something I consider to be very important.

Namely, that we as human beings and as societies must ABSOLUTELY NOT allow the symbol thieves to get away with it any longer. Take the 3rd Reich ...