What was it like reading it for the first time?

Immensely exciting, I absolutely couldn't put it down! A deep resonance, and a feeling of long-awaited homecoming, as well as a gratitude and a sparkling connection with the author who had put into words things that I thought nobody else ever felt.

I loved reading the stories - telling and hearing them is one of my favourite parts of PS.

How have you used the Project Sanctuary approaches so far?

Mainly for fun and relaxation, partly because there's some work to do on my Sanctuary before I get down to the serious adventuring. Unfortunately this 'big stuff' has become something that I'm forever planning to make time for...

What are the most important learnings you have derived from doing Project Sanctuary?

That it's ok to be alone. That it's ok to go to places and do things that some cannot imagine. That I have all the resources I need to deal with anything that life gives me. That I, alone, am more than I ever imagined. It has also taught me about my fears of madness and social stigma, but that I am brave enough to overcome them and reach for *my* stars.

Do you have a favourite PS story you would like to share?

My favourite so far was the one about finding my subconscious, which I have 
already shared, but two of my favourite experiences are;

- Drinking the cool, clear, sweet water from the fountain that insisted on being right in the entrance to my Sanctuary - I don't know what magical properties this water holds, but it never fails to make me smile.

- Implementing a series of satellite-like devices up among the stars which play music that showers down from the heavens - dancing around my Sanctuary garden like a loon with my gorgeous spirit guide, or snuggling under a blanket and watching the stars, the music is just about my favourite Sanctuary feature.


Thank you for this way cool technique.

Jenny, 20, UK

What was it like reading it for the first time?

It was quite freeing really. 

Like being given permission to do something you would love doing but had either not thought of doing or thought was 'not allowed'. 

At the same time it is simple enough in concept and leaves one thinking why didn't I just do these things anyway!

How have you used the Project Sanctuary approaches so far?

Of course for my Adam Faith experiences. For just chilling out in a lot of the time. 

Recently I had the feeling that if only I had a couple of old Aunts living in the country on a small farm they would look after me and make me well. They would feed me in a simple country fashion without fads and food sensitivities and cholesterol worries etc. In reality I am discovering several food allergies and need to follow a diet for hypoglycaemia which is all very wearing and inconvenient. 

So I realised after quite a few weeks of this yearning that in fact these Aunts for sure live in Sanctuary and so I have sent myself there and that is where I am in the background whilst dealing with reality here. Occasionally I go and see how I'm getting on. They want me to rest a great deal.

The initial setting up of my Sanctuary created a few shifts in real life.


> What are the most important learnings you have derived from doing Project Sanctuary?

That I have possibly never been in love despite being married twice. I have confused it with enjoying being loved which is a different thing entirely and with conditional love.

It has also stretched my mind as far as what is real and what is not and does it matter!

> Do you have a favourite PS story you would like to share?

This is my favourite story. I have already shared it with the group but here it is again. It is about my meeting with Adam Faith for the first time since my teenage Sanctuary experiences.

At first, though we met in the beautiful gardens of my house, we found ourselves in a hotel bedroom, me wearing my school uniform! Not as kinky as it sounds, this would be my usual garb at the time I last 'visited' Adam when I was about 14 years old :-)

Clearly sex was on the cards and I was not happy with this. It seemed so impersonal and unloving. So I said so and what happened then was extremely surprising to me. Basically we spent a whole day in the most romantic way possible - walking on the cliffs, lunching a deux somewhere overlooking the sea, sailing on a yacht and swimming in the sea all afternoon culminating in a delicious romantic dinner with candlelight and dancing cheek to cheek. Throughout the whole day Adam was perfection, he was incredibly attentive and seemed to be delighted to be with me the whole time. He told me how much he loved me and finally asked me to marry him!!! The stunning part is I did not know what to do with all this. So Adam took me to see a delightful Irish priest in a cottage on the cliffs and this is what happened:

Adam told the priest we wanted to talk to him about marrying and this is what he said.

"Well now, the thing is when you decide to marry you send out a powerful message to the universe. You stand your two selves there on a kind of pedestal, saying here we are, standing as one. And now the universe sends back the winds of change, the lightning bolts of insecurity, the thunder clouds of indecision and the rain of individuality. If you are not standing very firmly on solid ground then you will be swept away and I'm not wanting to see you, Linda my dear, drowned in the flood and mire of your own uncertainty. So, before taking this momentous step, my advice is go from here and put all your efforts into finding your own, your very own solid ground."

It became clear to me that, although I believe I have been loved, I, myself, have never really loved. The actions and feelings that I have translated as love have, in fact, been actions to attract love and the feeling of being loved but where was the feeling of unconditional loving? The strongest feeling right now with Adam is that he is showering me with his love, and enjoying it immensely, but I am simply an empty, cracked vessel, just taking and taking and finding I can never be filled up. I would like to find the ability to love. I understand I have it in me but it is deeply hidden.

> Anything else you'd like to say?

One always feels there ought to be LOL.
I guess the only thing is I don't feel I have at all grasped the full use and significance of Sanctuary but I do feel it is in my life for keeps. 

I don't go there all the time and long periods may elapse between visits but I never, ever forget it exists.


Linda, 53, England

What was it like reading it for the first time?

Confusing and, as if I was doing something wrong and wasteful. Just like all those times I was chided for “daydreaming”.


How have you used the Project Sanctuary approaches so far?

With enjoyment, wonder and gratitude that I have my magic back. 

I have used it mostly for rest and to find out what *I* truly want.

Just today (Duh!) I realized that I can ask a guide, whom I met many years ago in a dream, to meet me there and we shall have a talk and we shall see where it leads. I have spent many occasions pondering that dream meeting and wishing I could remember the great stuff he told me.


What are the most important learnings you have derived from doing Project Sanctuary?

I began in a fortress setting of safety, beauty and luxury. 

After some time, I realized that I did not have a community with which to interact and that I was lonesome. I have since realized how much of a solo person I am and I am pondering and initiating ways to enter into nourishing community here in the Hard.


Veronica, 52, USA

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What was it like reading it for the first time?

A relief, and very exciting

> How have you used the Project Sanctuary approaches so far?

I guess ive been a bit hyperactive in there so far ... fixing up some stuff in my life, mostly 

> What are the most important learnings you have derived from doing Project Sanctuary?

It doesnt have to be hard ('it' being anything at all, really)

> Do you have a favourite PS story you would like to share?

Well I haven't been doing this very long, and i dont know about favourite, but i thought id tell you about something that happened today.

i had a vision of this electrical energy, like lightning, in the core of my planet. 

(my house is on an island, but i have a whole planet as my sanctuary, and i fly to other continents on it ... i also fly to earth sometimes). 

so i made an elevator which took me down to the core. the energy was totally contained within it, 
and i decided to make some pathways for it up to the surface, much like meridians :-). back up on the surface, the energy was crackling all around, but the whole planet was rumbling, i thought it might explode, or at least cause lots of earthquakes, so i installed a controller in the core, who regulates the level of energy through the planet. there is now a lovely background hum of energy everwhere. the only problem is the it sparks off little fires now and then. 

i havent decided what to do about this yet, or even if it really is a problem.

> Anything else you'd like to say?

i love it. i completely love it. thank you so much.

Sarah, 22 Australia

What was it like reading it for the first time?

Absorbing, stimulating and exciting; tho' not an entirely new kind of technique, being already very familiar with creative visualization.

How have you used the Project Sanctuary approaches so far?

Mostly for 'looking and seeing' - ie exploration.


What are the most important learnings you have derived from doing Project Sanctuary?

That I have such a strong link with spirituality/mythology.

Anything else you'd like to say?

A very clear reminder that 'as within, so without'. And thanks.

June, 60, UK

What was it like reading it for the first time?

It was like reconnecting with my power and my autonomy through a joyous inside game. 

Every page opened up more and more my mind. 

It was like re-contacting this incredible child limitless creativity that I've forgotten somewhere in my past.



How have you used the Project Sanctuary approaches so far?

For myself, I've used it most of the time for relaxation and exploration. 

But on friends I've used it for helping them to move forward on their life when stuck on something.

What are the most important learnings you have derived from doing Project Sanctuary?

That Life is a playground where everything is a potential tool for learning. 

That nothing is as dramatic as it looks like when you stay opened in that game of Life. 


Do you have a favourite PS story you would like to share?

One of my friends has a depression and before to work with her she said she wasn't able to see where to start, which problem to pickup first. 

The metaphor for her problems was loads of paper in which a traumatic even was written on each sheet… but someone had made a bad joke to her by putting many many blank sheets through the pile.

She wanted to clean the pile but hadn't the strength to do it. I suggested hiring the service of thousands of secretaries; everyone had some sheets to clean and a summary of the main traumas to produce. After that a responsible would be in charge to make a summary on one sheet of the core problems behind all those problems and traumas. 

My friend could then work on those core problems with her psychologist. This PS session was two weeks ago and she has started to go much better… she was stuck their since six months. 

She hasn't received the summary's sheet yet but it seems she had a breakthrough with that session and she now sees some light amongst the darkness!


Anything else you'd like to say?

It's a bit curious but Project Sanctuary gives me hope for the "after-life". If there is some "after or between life", actually, I'm learning its rules right here with Project Sanctuary. 

Maybe the hard is for those who aren't able to cope with the limitless "paradise" of the free soul and they couldn't pursue their evolution without "real hard lessons"!!!


Jocelyn, 39, Quebec

What was it like reading it for the first time?

It was brilliant - like finally it was alright to do this sort of thing, and not only that, I'd been right to think it so important and that I kept on dreaming even though everyone around me told me it was stupid and a waste of time.

For that alone, I will be eternally grateful!


How have you used the Project Sanctuary approaches so far?

I use it for all sorts! When I'm bored. When I'm overtired and need some healing, to be in a place that just soothes me. To not be alone when I don't want to be. To ask questions from the guides. To try out new things there before I do them for real. With clients, I often use it for creating healing stories with them, that is just so powerful, really magical. 

What are the most important learnings you have derived from doing Project Sanctuary?

I think the most important learning was to understand how I had limited myself. Here there is this space where you can have anything, be anyone - and what do I do with it? Make a hut somewhere in the wilderness and really think that's the bees knees. It really makes me laugh sometimes when I do a version of that again, but at least now I notice. It shows up so immensely what your real beliefs are. 

Do you have a favourite PS story you would like to share?

Oh but there are so many! The one that had probably the most impact on me was this one. I've never had what you might call a "good relationship" with someone of the opposite sex in my entire life. But one time I was doing a fairly mundane sanctuary thing when from nowhere, this man turned up. I don't know if he was a guide or what he was, but I felt something that I have never, ever known before - and it's just a little thing or so it seems, but it was as though I didn't have to do anything to please him, that it was ok to just be there with him and be me and not have to try so hard all the time. I didn't even know such a state of being could exist for me, it was totally new and it changed - well everything I guess about the expectations or understandings of what a relationship could be like. 

This was absolutely beyond my own previous experience - so I got to experience something in Sanctuary that I didn't even suspect could exist at all. It is really difficult to try and explain what that was like or what it meant to me. 

Even if that never happens "for real", at least I know now and I've felt it, well calling it a gift doesn't do it justice, nor how grateful I am to have been able to know this.

Anything else you'd like to say?

Project Sanctuary has changed my life. It'll always be with me and to have that there and know it is priceless.

Thank you, Silvia.


Anne, 44, United Kingdom

Project Sanctuary Player's Questionnaire 


What was it like reading it for the first time?

A deep resonance -- yes this is so right, so powerful, I read it with a great amount of excitement, happiness and even relief. Although I had some experience with fantasy/visualization and exposure to Grovian metaphor work, I had no idea how to really put it all together or how to have fun with it! 

And this is really important: when reading PS, I couldn't wait to get started --- I was thinking Oh boy, this is going to be FUN! 

Without PS, I wouldn't give myself permission to going into these realms and just play! Imagine that, doing deep work and having fun at the same time --- what a concept!!!

How have you used the Project Sanctuary approaches so far?

I have used it a lot for rest and relaxation - I regularly use the healing pool and have a team of energy healers who come to give me treatments. 

Other uses: Creativity: I have an artist's studio where I am playing with sculpture and a library where my designer is working on a brochure for my business. 

Guidance: I regularly meet with a guide (the original guide has disappeared and been replaced with someone I've met before in meditation/visualization -- the first one I think was just there to welcome me) and recently started consulting with her about clients. 

Travel: I haven't had a vacation (in the Hard) for a long time, but in PS I just recently went to a beach resort. There's a lot I want to do but haven't yet, like meeting/healing my past selves, working on relationships, meeting a lover, etc. (have tried several times, but feel asleep......very interesting). 

What are the most important learnings you have derived from doing Project Sanctuary?

That creativity is a crucial part of healing and transformation and it doesn't have to be hard work. It has also given me more evidence that there is truly no separation between the quantum realms and the Hard - what we do in either place will manifest somehow in the other, be it subtle or more dramatic. 

The other important thing is that it has given me something to do with my "overactive" mind. Instead of always trying to clear my mind, focus, be still, etc. it is VERY FREEING to just let my mind go and do what it wants! 

I'm another one of those people who has been told many times that I think too much ---- my mind just needed something to play with, to grab onto and explore! 

Do you have a favourite PS story you would like to share? 

Two that I love:

1) My favorite has got to be the bubble house which I wrote about before: After an intense session of Slow EFT and ET a core issue I went into Sanctuary, and suddenly the main dwelling/house was completely wrong somehow. 

Previously it had felt comfortable, safe, cozy, pretty large with a variety of rooms; now it felt small and dark. Knowing it needed to change, but not how, I called in a designer to help and when he raised his arms the dwelling expanded rapidly -- in fact it is so large I can barely see from one end to the other. It is now a huge 3 level structure, completely transparent, but not made of glass. It is rounded, with no sharp edges anywhere -- like 3 slightly squashed balls sitting one on top of the other. The transparent material is somehow slightly permeable because it "breathes" instead of having windows. There are absolutely no walls inside, everything is visible (previous dwelling had separate rooms). 

The top floor is like an observatory for star gazing (and maybe future gazing?), the middle level has everything for rest, relaxation and healing and the bottom floor seems to be about work/creativity -- a large portion is dedicated to an artists studio (which didn't exist at all in the first dwelling). I am totally amazed, delighted and excited about this change and though I am refraining from analyzing, it feels like a HUGE shift for me. 

2) After working with HypnoDreams Receiving the Colors quite a bit, I went in to Sanctuary, and found myself in a long tunnel made entirely of crystal and as I whooshed through the tunnel the walls lit up with colors that changed and swirled as I went by -- it was beautiful. At the end of the tunnel I came into a space of pure, bright ,whitefish light -- overwhelmingly bright, which filled me with awe. When I opened my eyes in the dark room (it was night) the room seemed brighter! Very amazing.

Anything else you'd like to say?

Project Sanctuary is brilliant. The book is wonderful, inspiring and invites the reader to join in. I also very much appreciate the stories of people's experiences using PS. 

I have introduced two friends to PS who are actively involved now and we got together a few days ago to share stories. I have also used the process with one client and have introduced another to it. My heartfelt gratitude to you Silvia for a wonderful, life changing gift! 


THANK YOU!

Lisa age 49 USA

What was it like reading it for the first time?

Deep resonance. The feeling that this is what I have been looking for for a long time.


How have you used the Project Sanctuary approaches so far?

I am pretty new to it. I have been working on getting it cleaned up. It is now a place where I go to and feel good energetically. There are times I go there and feel so good it makes me cry. I still have a lot of exploring and creating to do.

What are the most important learnings you have derived from doing Project Sanctuary?

I am finally, finally, finally learning to communicate with my body and subconscious self. I approach it as an exploring what is there and then working on it until it feels right.

Do you have a favourite PS story you would like to share?

I started out being in a church. Later I realized it looked like the Baptist church my aunt goes to. I have a lot of blocks to the church as well as not good experiences with the Baptist church in my youth. (Funny that a lot of people I am attracted to and like, I later find out they are heavy-duty Christians.) I did Emotrance and dropped my shields to the church. This brought up a lot of emotion. I let go of a lot and the church turned into a log cabin. I had more work to do and now the log cabin is gone, and the place where it was is a cliff that looks out over the beautiful countryside. To my left is a waterfall and behind is a tree for shade. I like to lie on the grass and look out at the vast land. It is a very powerful feeling.


Anything else you'd like to say?

I’m just so grateful that Silvia discovered this and shared it. It feels like I’m finally getting back in touch with my child self and the magic she believed in.


Laura; 52; USA