I Learn Whose Heart Cores Border Mine: A Spirit Journey

This morning, I became determined to find out whose mindscapes or Heart Cores border mine, and to get an idea of the lay of the land in my own Heart Core. I had no clear ideas when I began of what I would find, or how the map would look when I was done exploring.

I rose up above my Relationship House. This was the first time I'd ever been able to do this. Always before, my vantage point had been stuck, pivoting from a point in front of the House, just inside the trees bordering the lawn.

The Relationship House is in the center of my Heart Core. All that surrounded it were trees, with a few patches of grass here and there. I found I was unable to zoom in and out to examine these patches more carefully. I do not know if they were areas where perhaps buildings or other structures once stood, or if they were random. I doubt they were random, but saw no purpose in many of them.

Perhaps they were rabbit dancing grounds, or Fairy Rings.

My Heart Core turned out to be an oval of a few acres, laid out "east" to "west" (remember, directions are fuzzy here). It is therefore a sort of island, surrounded by areas belonging to several people I know personally. It is representative of the rest of my mindscape, but not directly connected to the whole of it. That explains why I've never been able to get anywhere particular from my Heart Core, save by the square hole I told about here.

Surrounded my Heart Core are others, or at least, they are but snippets of mindscapes rather than whole inner worlds.

Richard's blends right in on the west - my hardwood park turns to his pine forest in the space of a few yards.

My son Cody's borders mine in the east, with his water lapping right up against a strip of sandy beach where my grass ends.

Another friend, Nate, has a connection on the northwest corner.

Someone I would consider a bit of a clinging acquaintance borders the south with a nondescript meadowland

My husband has his great, Viking-colored sea beyond Richard's section, to the far west.

My friend Riley's is on the north [see section "Riley's Experience"]. It has a border made of great, sharp, iron-granite mountains.

I took a moment to ask Riley about his mountains.

Apparently, he surrounds his Heart Core with them as a matter of course, because he gave an amused smile and said, "You can warp, you know." Which was as much of an invitation as I'm likely to get to come visit him. Perhaps I've been there before, subconsciously.

I found myself giving Riley both a silly smile and a disbelieving stare. He had proved to be an extremely cautious person when making friends or acquaintances. An invitation from him really meant something. I told him I would see about coming to visit him, soon. I wasn't sure I'd have the guts to carry through - I was shy, and he was someone I respected too much to treat lightly. His presence alone was overwhelming; he was the type you felt long before you saw him. What then would his Heart Core be like?

My actual mindscape is accessed through a hole in the ground...but I'm not sure where this hole is in relation to the rest of my Heart Core landscape.

Judging by the shelf of rock the osprey tends to sit on near there, I'm guessing it's close to Riley's granite mountains. I have every intention of going back and finding out for sure.

I still am having trouble seeing everything in my Heart Core clearly, and have to concentrate deeply while navigating from one portion to the next. I suspect I have some kind of mental block about the place, but haven't identified why.

To be continued...