When the Veils are Thin

A lot of this material is a crossover of my shamanic training from years ago, and as an “experiencer” myself, I was on familiar ground, but only to an extent… the layers to this are much deeper and stranger than we generally care to imagine.

The unexplained territories of consciousness that for the most part are blocked out or dampened down by the many interferences of modern living and a scientific model that writes it off as woo-woo, or delusional pathology, are felt by the energetically sensitive, the mystics, seers, occultists, and geomancers.

Mostly we only see and experience the tip of the iceberg.

Unless we have direct experience of the paranormal and the unexplained, unless it shakes the foundations of our psychic structures, or unless the disturbances break through to the waking world of “normality”, where we take comfort in the known, this is the stuff of science fiction or fantasy.

And yet, many of us, whether we speak of our experiences or not, have had some kind of encounter with the irrational world of the supernatural.

I chose the image below to illustrate my post because it speaks to the unspoken. I love the work of Leonora Carrington, herself no stranger to the dark or other side, but I had not seen this image before. Adieu Ammenotep was painted in 1960 as a symbolic farewell to the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten, who for Leonora represented the founder of patriarchy.

The image is a comment on the reemergence of the feminine. One wonders if the oppression of the feminine was/is not, at least in part, down to a repression of circular consciousness, a connection to the natural and supernatural worlds (all one world), the dark moon as well as the full moon, and the mysteries of blood, ritual, and knowing form the womb that women experience intuitively and naturally. For archaic feminine consciousness perhaps what we call para normal or supernatural was not so unnatural.

When the temples of the goddess were desecrated, when the priestesses were disallowed, and the witches were burned, the ancient ways of knowing that connect the living and the dead, the human and divine, and the ways of magic went underground, pushed deeper into the unconscious. The peculiar, unexplained, rich expanse of human experience that finds its way back through the cracks of reality leads us from the shackles of technocratic and scientific control back into the wonderful, if sometimes terrible, multi-dimensional worlds of the divine.