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CHAPTER 2: STALKING THE INTRUDER: THE BEGINNING INITIATION

1. What is your understanding of the "natural predator" of the psyche? Have you experienced this contra

naturum ("against nature") force in your psyche?

2. When have you, like the young wife in the Bluebeard tale, overruled your intuition, with detrimentalconsequences?

3. Do you remember having had an initiatory experience in which you became "prey" of a predatory

force/situation/person?

4. When have you allowed yourself to be "food" for the predator?

5. Did you have early training in "being nice?" Did you experience early mothering that "went along for

the ride,", i.e. did not warn you about the predator?

6. Have you ever heard, but ignored, the voices of the "older sisters" in your psyche, urging you to greater

consciousness?

7. When have you found yourself saying "His beard really isn't so blue?"

8. When have you been forced into believing you were powerless, or trained to not consciously register

what you know/knew to be true?

9. Have you ever been promised you would become a "Queen", when in fact your "murder" was being

planned?

10. Have you ever chosen to open the door to the "ghastly secret room," to use the small key that would

bring you to consciousness?

11. What are some "key" questions you have asked that caused the secret doors of your psyche to swing

open?

12. When have you opened the door of your own life and found that you have been allowing the assassina-

tion of your dreams, goals, and hopes?

13. Do you remember any night time dreams that were shouting warnings to you to "wake up, get help,

flee, go for the kill?"

14. Have you experienced that wherever the predator lurks and works, everything is derailed, demolished,

and decapitated?

15. When have you "lost arterial blood from your soul?"

16. What do you know deep in your ovaries that you wish you did not know?

17. Who in your female blood-line lost her instincts to make good choices for herself, and lived a marginal

life? Who in your female blood-line honored the force of the creative feminie in her life?

18. What are the dark [arts of your psyche that need to be illumined?

19. Do you have a sense of the "indestructible force of the feminine,", i.e. of your feminine soul?

20. When have you been in the cellar/the dungeon/the cave? What did you do to "track the bodies, follow

the instincts, see what you could see, call up psychic muscle, dismantle the destructive energy?

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21. Have you ever "backtracked and looped", stalling and biding for time to reestablish your sovereignty

over your own life?

22. Have you experienced the aid of your "psychic brothers" (your animus)?

23. Hav you had an experience of dismantling/dismembering the predator of your psyche?

24. What are your fantasies "filled with frosting and frou-frou", the vulnerable, desirous, and underprivi-

leged parts of your psyche?

25. How do you understand the transformation/vanquishing of the predator to take place?

26. In what way have you understood the Bluebeard story as "medicine" to set your inner life back in mo-tion again?

27. Has the Bluebeard story raised to consciousness the "psychic key," the ability to ask any and all ques-

tions about yourself?

28. What is your experience with "dark Man" dreams?

29. Has the "business of valuing your creative life" been a perennial issue for you?

30. How do you feed your inner predator?

31. How do you/ When have you:

~unlocked or pried things open to see what is inside?

~ used your insights and ability to stand what you see?

~ spoken your truth in a clear voice?

~ used your assist to do what needs to be done about what you see?

32. When have you listened to the voice of your intuition, and what has been the result? When have youignored the voice of your intuition, and hat has been the result?

33. Have you experienced the power of Wild Woman coming to your aid against the predator?

34. What can you do to stop your key from bleeding?

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1. Create a SoulCollage card for the Dark Man/inner predator of the psyche.

2. Fold a piece of paper in half. On the left side, make a list of all of the ways that your Inner Bluebeard at-

tacks you. On the right side, reframe and rewrite each statement to dismember this Inner Predatory Voice.

(E.g, "I do not have enough time to create art" becomes "I have all the time in the world" etc)

3. Create a Bluebeard mask with paper mache. Incorporate the statements written on the left side of Sug-

gestion #2 above into the mask by actually paper macheing them into the mask.. Wear your mask when

you realize/acknowledge that you are engaging in self-sabotaging behavior.

4. After creating a Bludbeard Mask, decorate a hand-held mirror with the Reframed Statements from the

right side of your paper in Suggeston # 2 , as well as other symbols which indicate that you have found thekey to vanquish the inner predator.

3. Create, and then dismember, a Bluebeard doll.

4. Make a key ring and label the psychic keys you need to raise your consciousness.

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5. Use a box to create your "ghastly secret room." Fill it with images/symbols of the murdered parts of

yourself.

6. Create a totem pole of your positive female bloodline - include actual relatives as well as spiritual fore-

mothers.

7. Write a "cursing poem" to Bluebeard/your inner predator.

8. Keep a Bluebeard journal. Write freely and uninhibitedly about your meanest, most murderous thoughts

towards yourself and others.

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