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Into the deep earth
Go to your Gaia place, or somewhere else in a natural setting where you can be
at peace.
Lie face down on the earth. Breathe calmly and feel the weight of your body on
the ground. Relax into the sense of being held gently by the great body of the earth
beneath you.
You have acquired the ability to pass at will through the seeming density of solid
matter. Feeling calm and relaxed, you descend gently into the ground like a swim-
mer beginning a slow dive from the surface of a calm lake. Breathing comes eas-
ily, as with gentle strokes, you sink head first into the ground.
Swimming down through many metres of soil you enter the crystalline bedrock
that makes up the thin crust of the earth. Plunging through 40 kilometres of
this brittle crust, you pass into a new realm where the rocks are thick, dark red
and viscous, like immensely dense molasses. You have reached the surface of the
earth's mantle.
Pausing just below the crust, you feel the glutinous rocks around you moving
slowly like oozing glass. With astonishing agility you swim into an immense down-
ward torrent of slowly descending mantle rock, feeling its dense treacly substance
gradually growing hotter and denser around you as it takes you down, deeper and
deeper, for hundreds and hundreds of kilometres.
With stroke after stroke you glide down with an easy grace, swimming along
the slowly downward moving mantle rocks until, after what seems like an age of
travel, you reach the lowermost edge of the mantle, some 2,900 kilometres from
the surface.
Diving deeper still, you plunge into yet another realm. You are now just inside
the earth's outer core, where you encounter super-heated molten liquid lava that
swirls quickly around you, buffeting you with
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