Copyright (C) 1997 by William Mistele. All rights reserved. From the story--The Undine Amue. The Undine Amue Amue's Domain on the Astral: This domain is more a state of mind than a location. It is a way of perceiving. But it is also a location in that you can draw close to it and enter it. Amue can feel a creature or person's physical and emotional life as though the other is part of her own nervous system. Amue embodies the sensitivity of water and subtle perception which are acutely aware of the faintest physical/etheric and astral.vibrations. In other words, to attune yourself to Amue's way of being imagine you can sense an expanse of water, the qualities of the water, and the fish all at once. You can see into, through, and sense the life and vibrations of everything around you. Amue's Outer Aura: Amue exudes a tranquility and nurturing tenderness. She specializes in fish and their environments but this sensitivity to sustaining life also applies to emotions. Automatically, her aura runs a psychic, diagnostic evaluation to discover what you need in order to feel more at peace, happy, and content. And then she provides that energy immersing you within it. Inner Aura: Unlike Istaphul and Osipeh, Amue does not create a powerful magnetic field designed specifically to heighten your attraction to her. Love is not for Amue a contest in which she would prove her prowess. She is not a temptress or an erotic goddess. Instead, it is Amue's nature to circulate a nurturing energy through you that balances the energies of your body and brings peace to your emotions. In this sense, Amue is a healer. It is not the creation of intimate love which is her goal but establishing peace, health, and well-being. Isaphil, another undine, also seeks as an expression of her nature to heighten the serenity and harmony within you. Isaphil will freely give of her own astral life force to bring this result about. But Isaphil uses her attractive power to strengthen her connection to you. For Isaphil, it is nature that water flows, absorbs and releases heat, purifies, renews, and grants life. In a similar way, Isaphil considers that it is the nature of beauty to be captivating. The reason for this is that beauty reveals the clearest vision of the sacred powers which govern and animate life. Therefore, for Isaphil, no one has the right to dim beauty or try to lesson its effects. Isaphil, for all her purity and lunar serenity, is a conscientious enchantress. By contrast, it may be tempting to underestimate Amue's powers and magnetic appeal. Amue is not flirtatious, inviting, or outrageously seductive as are the three previous magical undines. Amue is so relaxed, laid back, and indirect it is easy to take her for granted. Her intentions are so obvious. She does for you what she does for the fish in the sea--she seeks to sustain and enhance your life. What could be misleading about that? Amue is the ideal kind of personal friend if you desire someone who is quiet, gentle, warm, considerate, and always there for you. But Amue is still an undine. She considers it her natural right to influence any creature which depends on water for its life. Meeting Amue on the Astral Plane: I begin by imagining myself surrounded by a vast sea of freezing cold water colored blue green on the physical, astral, mental, and akashic planes. My body actually begins to shiver as my nerves are fooled by what my brain says it is perceiving. Creating a watery cold energy field through force of imagination is one method for contacting undines. It creates a common medium through which our two separate evolutions can interact. As I seek to make a connection to Amue, there is a moment's transition in which I feel I am completely on the astral plane and within her domain. I feel safe, content, and accepted. There is also that otherworldly quality of Amue's sigil: the feeling of not needing to think and being suspended outside of time. There is no reference to human civilization. The primary mode of perception and sensation is being immersed within a vast sea of magnetic energy. I shift my awareness so Amue follows me back to my location in the physical world. Amue is now present here with me in my room. She begins singing to me. She spends a few moments on each musical tone. The notes evoke feelings of childhood--of being held and feeling happy, content, and being at peace. She also evokes with her singing themes from the different ethnic groups which are part of my heritage. There are songs of heros who believe passionately in their ideals and in what they seek. There are songs of love: Amue's songs move imperceptibly between the comfort a mother gives her infant and the song of a lover who gives all of her heart to another with absolute trust. There are songs of longing and desire, of the sun radiant and dazzling in its light as it sparkles and burns within ice. Amue now sings in quarter notes and half tones expressing solitary quests and then the tension resolves with a note evoking transcendent vision and success. As she repeats and varies a melody, I am surrounded by a setting from a Taoist monastery perhaps from some former incarnation. Late at night I sit meditating before an altar burning a few sticks of incense. A gong sounds on the hour. There is a profound satisfaction and a peace within and around me. As Amue sings, I have no doubt I could sustain this sensation of being in the body of a Taoist priest for as many hours as I wish. The chanting is familiar and this place is second nature. And now she sings with words: Peace like a river Peace like the sea of stars on fire Peace like a heart that loves forever Peace like a harp Whose strings haronize and unite Dream, song, and life. Amue asks me because of my tears, "Have I displeased you, my friend?" "Not at all," I reply, "I am delighted with your singing." I take Amue's hand and she clasps my hand with both of hers. I am surprised by the warmth and comfort in her touch. Reading my mind, Amue speaks to me with words from my own vocabulary, "Affection and kindness are common currency. No race of beings has a monopoly when it comes to sharing love." I transfer my mind within Amue and look back at myself through her eyes. She says, "Though my knowledge of the life within the seas is immense, I do not often work with human beings. They rarely visit me. But you underestimate your abilities. Your mind is like quicksilver. Go ahead and do your thing. Join our two auras so they become one." I spend a few moments evoking the penetrating oneness of akasha which connects the two of us on a deeper level. Amue says, "You often over heat burning up your energy through excessive concentration. You need an calm evenness which lasts throughout the day without weakening. Draw my sigil again and let go into the feeling." As I draw Amue's sigil in the air I feel it is her hand that is drawing it instead of my own. Her fingers and motions are more artistic than mine. She draws lines the way a Hula dancing moves her hands. As I finish, I have the sensation of being within a motionless, blue-white iceberg. The two of us let go of our bodily forms and extend our awareness throughout the iceberg as if it has become our home. Amue is very adamant on this point of working with freezing cold. She tells me that to be comfortable with the heat within my body and to dissolve my restlessness I need to master the sensation of cold. I concentrate on the iceberg. After a few moments, it seems I can taste the ice. I can feel the strength of water in its solid form. I can feel the temperature of this iceberg, its weight, and I feel the way it floats. Amue says like a friend insisting I give her my full attention, "Shut up and just be with me in this place for a while." Amue seems to have little patience for the little breaks I take to write down what is occurring. It is dark and cold as I sit meditating with an undine inside an iceberg at the North Pole. You may think it a strange thing to do or even to imagine. And the idea of projecting your mind or part of your consciousness outside your body to another part of the earth? Seems ridiculous though it is also known that the CIA has funded just this sort of thing since the nineteen seventies. This is public record. Still, there is something very special about putting aside some time to spend with an undine. I recall the words of a poem I once wrote which seem to apply also to Amue: "If you held me in your heart, winter would no longer be cold and ice and snow would be warm to the touch." With a friend like Amue, even a desolate waste and a barren place overflow with love. I am beginning to feel where Amue learned to sing her notes and how affection encompasses all the seas of the world. Amue has a pure receptivity and her sensitivity is ancient and primordial--she recalls how the sea held a dream in its heart for a billion years until life finally took form. Amue nudges my shoulder with her shoulder out of exasperation as we briefly assume physical forms. She says, "Can't you be silent?" And then she says in a casual way tinged with an eerie note, "If you give me ten minutes without one thought, I will give you a month of iceberg cold silence in return to cleanse your soul." That sounds fair enough. Meditating without thinking is a basic practice in hermetics and Raja Yoga as well. I stop my thinking and just let go into iceberg cold. Fifteen minutes later Amue says to me touching my shoulder from in front, "There. Doesn't that feel better? Don't you feel more pure?" Then she laughs and jokes, "Your ears have become like seashells filled with the songs of seas." It takes me a few minutes to get my mind in gear so words are willing to appear. There is this wintery darkness inside of me and the sensation that I am surrounded by open ocean from horizon to horizon. I find myself sitting here without moving or thinking. If I did not know better, I would say my ears can hear for miles in all directions. Amue reminds me of a song I once knew--"I would give my all to Thee....Teach me to lose myself in Thee, Oh Lord." Amue says, "For an undine, the sea is the soul of the Goddess. I can lose my self in the sea and feel peace without having to worry about anything. This watery, magnetic expanse covering your planet is full of boundless energy, life, and it celebrates the mystery of love. To be at peace with yourself, you must explore its depths and know its love." Back to Undine Homepage