Suggestions
Created on 11/30/2008
Hi Everybody,
I want to thank you again for visiting Cliffhouse. And thank you for your private and public letters and comments, they are very important for me.
I’d like to share some of my suggestions with you, especially in relation to Virtual Retreats and what I would like them to be.
When you read Asking for Healing Shame, as much as it appears to be my deeply personal story, it is written for you, and it is done quite straightforwardly so to help you to get to the core of your healing. There are a couple of things I need to mention following that publication before I publish the next retreat (Transforming the Guilt):
It is quite common to feel sad when the feeling of shame is being reached and transformed. It’s natural. Just as feeling angry, enraged, belittled, frustrated, disappointed and so on, is natural. Any strong feelings (except confusion which indicates enforced denial) that you may experience following the Virtual Retreats are good indications that you respond profoundly. And those uncomfortable feelings are usually replaced quite rapidly with the sense of liberation and lightness.
Here are a few suggestions to keep in mind to help you to make sense out of your communication with the Memorymaker:
Love your memories. Just love them because they are you. Love them as you would love your children, without discrimination, unconditionally accepting, without expecting anything in return.
There are different ways to remember, very different ways to relate to memories, and those ways can either change us for the better or fixate us more in past pain. Choose ways to remember that make you better. Deep down you know exactly how to make that choice.
Accept your memories completely. Don’t judge them, don’t impose your ideas of what is “good”, how it is “supposed to be”, what other people would think about it. It doesn’t matter. You and your memories, all of them, share the intimate connection that is free from judgment. Just love your memories because they are you.
You know, I was driving home the other day, along the ocean and I decided to stop by one of the state beaches to look at the sunset. It was still far away from home and I had never stopped there before, but that afternoon something was so appealing in this tiny side road coming off the freeway that I took the exit and followed the road. It curved, almost making a circle, before leading me to the parking lot placed next to the ocean. Tall trees with large branches almost created a green screen protecting this space from the busy freeway. I stepped outside my car and heard myriads of birds singing loudly somewhere on the tops of palm trees growing close to the ocean. The parking lot seemed to be a home mostly for RVs which gathered there closer to night fall. People who live in their cars were going into public restrooms to take a shower, some families gathered around a grill cooking something, laughing. A few couples were walking on the beach holding hands, kids ran around playing with dogs. It looked busy, yet so serene. Like a movie scene; bright but surrealistic, framed by the white foam of ocean waves, relentlessly brushing off the sand, and by remote cliffs rising on both the north and south ends of the beach, as well as the penetrating reddish color of the orange sunset with groups of tiny birds flying briskly back and forth over the warm sky. Most people on the beach were the ones who live in their cars and RVs, and who came to this remote place for a safe night. I know for a fact how challenging this life can be, and most people probably didn’t have a choice but give up their homes and live in their cars, often with their kids and pets. I had no illusions about the harshness of it. Yet, the sense of peace, joy, freedom and connection which I sensed there was unparalleled. And I thought about how simple the pathway to happiness can be. Really. When we open our internal space, even though it takes great efforts to cleanse our spaces from traumas and pains of the past, still when we open up and accept fully, the feelings, the images, experiences, impressions even from one simple moment, the way the children running on the beach do, the happiness it brings is real. And it is going to stay as a memory magnet that will bring more simple, happy moments to remember. So we can be like children again.
That is what the Cliffhouse is about for me. It can be anywhere your mind is, like the story I told you of the Cliffhouse in the Rocky Mountains. But when I was standing on that remote California beach, my mind, my body with its perceptions, emotions, and processes became a Cliffhouse on the border of realities, and I felt it as a space where we are all connected because those people on the beach were able to share their joy with me without even knowing it. For that moment, before the harshness of life hit again, they had it in abundance, and in some way it is always going to stay there. And I thought, even though our wounds are different, we all share the feeling of lightness and openness that healing brings.
Love,
Olga
Comments
Hi Olga,
thank you soooo much for helping all of us to get to our memory demons and giving us a way of healing the trauma. The first experience I had when I visited my room in cliffhouse was very exciting and I could really relate to what Cliffhouse and the work that is done here, means.
I was able to experience my room and all of a sudden I had the impression of big wooden wheels lookin like wheels from water mills would be inside my body. The wheels where located in different areas that I experience to be blocked. I imagined how water would flow through the wheels and therefore healing energy flows through my body. This happened only one time.
Now, a few weeks later it seems like I cannot connect anymore. Somehow when I visit my room and try to reach memories or “see” the memorymaker, I either drift away as I am unable to concentrate or I simply kind of fall asleep (without remembering any dreams). The same happens when I concentrate on the wheels.
That is frustrating and I wonder, if it is the memory demons, that try to keep me away from getting to the core of the things. It’s important to me to know, if other people have similar experiences like falling asleep or other stuff.
I know that I really want to get to freeing my blocked memories and getting on with what my true destiny in this life is.
Basically I don’t remember a lot of stuff that happened in my past - I guess it is the way my psyche learned to deal with painful experiences: blocking them from my memory. But this needs to change, as I have more and more difficulties remembering all kind of things and also the right side of my body is severely tense. Then I’m totally sensitive to noise; the trigeminus nerv on my right side seems to be “shaky” as well. I know that these are just symtoms of psyche landscape shown in the body’s physical appearance; the symptoms have been different a few years ago but they always seem to make me weak and exhausted so I cannot do my life work.
Maybe you have some idea what I could do now to free the memories or understand what is going on?
Thanx for being there for us and that you decided to even let your soulmate go in that accident to be here to still work with other humans in this intense time. Only people with a very big heart would do that.
Love, jaybee
By jaybee on 12/20/2008Dear Olga,
it is a great gift to receive all the teachings and thoughts and memories you share with us. I am going through a difficult period, grappling with a deep pain I do not yet fully understand. Your warm and wise words help me intensely in my struggles. Thank you!
By Marie on 06/20/2009Dear Olga,
I am so excited to hear that a new book is coming soon!! 
Thank you for all of your hard work!
In your books, and on this website, you talk about experiences you’ve had, as well as things you learned from other cultures. You also mention some “visualizations” we could use to explore our internal world.
I was wondering if you could also write articles about what you have come to understand about the “mechanisms” of how the “external world” and the “internal world” affect each other and shape our personalities through the window of the mind/brain.
Thank you
Dear Olga,
Good luck with your new Book! I look forward to it! And thank you verry much for all the things you share with us.
Lots of greetings, Malissa
I´m looking forward to read your new book.
Will it be possible to buy a copy sign by you?
Love
Andreas 
Hello Olga,
This is the very first time for me to write to you.
I’ve been your reader for last seven years, The Entering the Circle was introduced by my husband when we married (Japanese transrated version). Then, I met The Master of Lucid Dreams, English version, when I lived in Hawai’i, and I found it’s content very important for all individuals on the Earth. However, there is no Japanese translated version of your second book, and I would like to ask your permission to become the translator of the book in order to introduce such important book to the Japanese people. I’m very serious about it. And now I am very happy to hear about your next book coming soon, that I’ve waited for long time.
I’ve been working with my spirits of trauma, and also I’ve been helping my husband to deal with his own, your books have helped us greatly. Thank you very much, truly appreciated.
Aloha a me mahalo nui,
Yumi
Hi Olga,
Really looking forward to reading your new book!
Love,
Graham
Hi, Olga, been reading your book Entering the Circle (in Swedish)—it is really, really exciting.
Would you mind telling where in the Altai Mountains I could find a shaman?
Best wishes, and good luck with your third book
By Gosta on 04/15/2010Dear Olga,
So happy to hear from you again and I’m looking very much forward to reading your book!!
I am sorry that I wrote “hope I’m right” at the New Year greeting post instead of"hope we’re right”.I don’t know if you noticed.I sort of didn’t feel I deserve to put myself in the same league as you,that’s why..
I am so grateful for your sharing of your personal experience both here and in your books-it is a very great gift.
Best wishes,
Monika
By Monika on 04/19/2010sentimi
By ornella salghini on 06/18/2010Hi Olga,
I just finished last night the german version of your two books (in one book). I enjoyed them very much and growing up in the GDR I felt an additional connection and made some peace. When growing up we were almost forced on the friendship to the UdSSR and that frustrated us and I disliked all things russian becuase of that. Reading your books and getting to know you through it has changed some feelings that were still there. It would be great to meet you some day.
Thank you for sharing your so personal stories to pass them on to the people for their learning.
As I’m learning more about shamanism your books were great learning.
Best wishes to you,
Susi
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By Susi Kunza on 07/11/2010Olga, I certainly am looking forward to your new work… Your books in English have been “basic realities text-books” for me. I have been wondering if the (below listed) books, two in Germain and one in French are original or unique works or are they translations of the English “Entering the Circle” and “Master of Lucid Dreaming”: (anyone who knows can answer - Dave)
Samarkand, Eine Reise in die Tiefen der Seele
Das weisse Land der Seele
La chamane blanche
Also looking forward to the new Cliff House and the time when we can pick up the dialog…
Love and Light - Uncle David
Hi David,
“Samarkand” is the German translation of “Master of lucid dreams”.
“Das weisse Land der Seele” is the German translation and “La chamane blanche” the French translation of “Entering the Circle”.
Best wishes Iris
Dear Olga,
will you come one day to Germany?
Love Iris
By Iris Gibier on 08/10/2010Olga,
I just discovered Entering the Circle yesterday. Amazed. Much to explore and uncover.
Thank you much.
Jim
Dear Olga
I hope you are alright! Hopefully this long absence is only because you have a lot to do and perhaps you are very busy with your book.
My suggestions for this page would be to have some music here.I love the cd you gave out called Altai ,maybe some tracks from it?
Love and best wishes from Monika
Dear Olga,
I’m Russian, I come from Bijsk, Altay and I live in Munich, Germany now, so I read your books in German, I’ve been impressed and deeply moved and wanted to ask you if there are any translations in Russian, because I want my parents and other Russians who don’t know any foregn languages to read your books. I also know one German Shaman who lives not far from Munich and I work as an interpreter Russian-German with people who come from Russia to be healed by him. If you happen to come to Munich, you are most welcome and if you are interested in meeting him, I will be happy to assist you there.
Love
Nelia
Dra Olga,
Estou quase no final do Circulo de Xamãs e me identifiquei muito com ele, com os caminhos e conhecimwntos ali descritos. Espero ter a oportunidade de ler outros livros traduzidos para o Português.
Você com certeza é especial!!
Josy
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