What does 'Keeper of the Blue Flame' mean, anyway?

Sometime in my 20's, I started hearing a phrase when I was meditating, trancing, or in an altered state of awareness.  Sometimes it was when I was in a hypnagoggic state.  Sometimes hypnopompic.  It would come on me when I was doing shamanic visioning or self-healing.  When I was dreaming.  Sometimes just in the middle of the day when I was going about the business of living. 

A voice would say in my thoughts, "You are Keeper of the Blue Flame."  Now what the hell does that mean?  I always thought, "Hmm... that sounds pretty.  Maybe I heard it from a movie or a book?"  On further analysis, I could find nothing in my memory or the books I had read that held that phrase.  I started thinking of other relationships to it.  "My favorite color is cobalt blue, which is the color of blue flame."  I thought about chakras; my favorite being the Blue.  I thought about the Blue Ajah in the fantasy books, The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan.  If I were Aes Sedai, I would be the Blue Ajah.  The women that used spiritual truth, secrets, knowledge, and social politics to fight evil.  And they were also the Battle Ajah; them what done used their magical powers to protect the innocent from harm and evil.  I always say I want to reincarnate as a Battle Angel.  Some force of good that combats evil or energy that is harmful to innocent beings.

Fast forward to Imbolc eve in 2003.  I had never celebrated the Pagan tradition of Imbolc.  Yet me and my best friend, and my partner in the spiritual journey, decided that's exactly what we needed to do.  This holiday is dedicated to the Goddess Brigid, or Brigit.  We prepared my space and had a ritual in front of a blazing fire.  We went into trance together.  And a whole life unfolded before me.  Later, I will tell that story.  But I learned then that the Priestesses of Brigid were also the Keepers of the Blue Flame.  I also learned it held an older tradition.  I still didn't KNOW exactly what it meant.  But I did get that being a Keeper is the spiritual representation of keeping the light of expanded consciousness and knowledge alive.  That being it, and doing it mean that you hold the ancient and arcane knowledge, and keep it warm and burning in your soul and mind.  Then you give it to others for healing and growth. 

Since then, in random ways, that phrase has found me over time.  In other Past Life Regressions.  In dreams.  In books, and on the internet.

In one description of what the purpose of a Keeper of the Blue Flame IS, they name the titles, or areas, or responsibilities a Keeper must uphold or embody.  (They are SUPER WOO-WOO!)  They include, but are not limited to, the following:  Protector of the Freedom Plan, The Uncloaked Wonder Worker, The Defender of God's Holiness, The Transmitter of Light from the Second Chohan, The Proclaimer of Splendor, The Divine Mystery Laborer, The Custodian of the Sacred Word, The Pointer to the Truth of the Higher Way, Master of Transformation, Eye of Light, and Intense Expression of Will.

Do I know where this phrase originates from?  Do I know why it was created?  I've never found it any book.  I got the answer from channeling.  And yes, as crazy as it sounds, I believe a lot of what I am shown and told through visions, dreams, trance, and channeling.  Truth to me in these matters is what I FEEL it to be.  So I do know.  Do I yet have confirmation?  No.  Do I need it?  Not really, but it's always nice! 

I just know this.  That it helps me to know that I have a path with the work I do spiritually and metaphysically.  It's this huge part of my life that I keep secret.  I don't keep it secret because I have to.  Nor because I want to, really.  I keep it secret because it makes others uncomfortable.  Most of my tribe is either agnostic, atheist, or deeply spiritual in a non-traditional way.  Some are deeply Christian or Jewish.  Almost none of those folks like a Fundamentalist Christian to witness to them.  Some bible thumping freak that makes judgment on us with scripture from the Bible, or talks about religion unbidden has no place in my life.  It annoys the shit outta me!  So I do my best not to do it to others.  Because I know belief in such thing is personal, and private. It doesn't matter what other people believe;  what matters is WHAT YOU BELIEVE!  That's what your life is based on.  What I believe in is so far out of the range of what the average human believes or cares about that it would be plain RUDE to converse about it unbidden.  Now if they're INTERESTED in it, that's a different story!  I'll talk about it all day long! 



People ask what we are all the time.  If you could give an over-arching name or title to your purpose as a living being, what would it be?  I only know that I am a Keeper of the Blue Flame, and shall ever be. 

Do )“

Lighting the Fire

All of us have a secret identity.  To some degree, I think.  There is always at least one thing we are interested in or know about ourselves that we have to protect.  That part may be something we only communicate to those closest to us.  Or it may be something we fear to speak about to anyone.  My secret identity isn't really that much of a secret to those who know me best.  For those who don't know me well, they still sense it.  They know it's there.  They just don't know what "it" is.  If I could count the times people have said to me, "There is SOMETHING about you... I don't know what it is..."  and then it's normally followed by something positive. 

Long have I held views, thoughts, and feelings about the Unseen world that I keep close.  There have been times in my life when I was burned for expressing my feelings.  (Through Past Life Regression, I have uncovered that I have literally burned for my beliefs... over and over and over again.)  Yet I have spent the bulk of my life doing, thinking, and feeling the way I chose to, with little regard for how other people felt about it.  And when I say that, I don't mean I don't consider others feelings.  I do.  But other people's feelings don't come into play when we are deciding who we are, and what we're about.  My rule for myself is this:  Be who I am and do what I do; just not at the expense of another person mentally, physically, emotionally, or spiritually.  "Do what they wilt and harm none." 

So now I am creating a place to write my own experience of spirituality, metaphysics, and the Unseen world.  Know that I accept the fact that what I believe is my own perception.  It is not my intention to prove anything to anybody; nor sway their views in any way.  My reality is my own.  And I fully accept that it may be population 1.  ("Table for one, please, at the edge of the Universe."  I am NOT writing this blog to be right.  I am writing it to express my experiences.  The cosmos is large enough for each of us to have our own perception of it.  And this blog represents my own.