Mythological Visions
Visions of Myths
Ecstatic trance takes us into several different domains of the world of the spirits, (1) It provides us which energy for healing, (2) It brings to us the spirits of the Earth to heal the Earth, (3) It brings to us the spirits of our ancestors that give us direction in how to live, (4) It brings us the deeper meaning of the dreams of our ancestors, the deeper meaning of the ancient myths. I have journeyed through the myths of Northern Europe, the Prose Edda and Beowulf and found healing in both. From the Prose Edda the healer is Iduun who keeps the gods young with the apples of her garden, the Garden of Iduun. This opened me to wondering about the stories of the Biblical stories of Genesis and the Garden of Eden. Reading Matthew Wood’s yet to be published manuscript “The Seven Guideposts of the Spiritual Path” brought my wondering to a peak, and I have ventured into using ecstatic trance to journey through the seven stories of Genesis, the stories of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph, stories that open up a new much deeper understanding of these stories.
In these stories who or what is the voice of God, the voice heard by Adam and Eve, the voice heard by Cain and Abel, the voice heard by Noah? Then after the Tower of Babel, a Tower build to reach to and be to be closer to God, the voices were no longer heard voices but visions seen in dreams or waking visions from an altered state of consciousness of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph, Jacob’s vision of wrestling with a man at the banks of the Jordan River, angel speaking of Sarah, and Joseph’s visions of a stalks of grain and the moon, sun and stars bowing to him, a branch of grapes and a cup, or a basket of baked goods being eaten by birds interpreted by Joseph, and of cows coming out of the Nile, or ears on a stalk coming out of the Nile, dreams of Pharaoh. These visions were messages that came from beyond the five senses, personal messages important to the receiver, as Joseph said to Pharaoh, “Messages not from me, but from God,” messages typical of those of ecstatic trance.
According to Julian Jaynes, the Tower of Babel was built at a point in neurological evolution of integration between the two hemispheres of the brain. Before the Tower the hemispheres were experienced separately, and voices in the right hemisphere of the brain were experienced by the left hemisphere as coming from outside the brain. After the Tower, when a person opened themselves to their dreams and other extra-sensory experiences, the experiences were divinatory predicting something of personal importance in growth and for the community.
God is the voices and visions coming from beyond the five senses of sight, sound, taste, smell and touch, experiences that could be attributed to the spirit of God, or to the spirits of a world beyond the five senses, the spirits of the Earth, spirits of our ancestors.
Such extra-sensory experiences are of value and for healing and not limited to the Judeo-Christian culture but are found in all cultures around the world, experiences that provided the shamans of their cultures their exceptional powers.
In ecstatic trance we use ecstatic posture of the Olmec Diviner for divination to find answers to questions.
Ecstatic trance takes us into several different domains of the world of the spirits, (1) It provides us which energy for healing, (2) It brings to us the spirits of the Earth to heal the Earth, (3) It brings to us the spirits of our ancestors that give us direction in how to live, (4) It brings us the deeper meaning of the dreams of our ancestors, the deeper meaning of the ancient myths. I have journeyed through the myths of Northern Europe, the Prose Edda and Beowulf and found healing in both. From the Prose Edda the healer is Iduun who keeps the gods young with the apples of her garden, the Garden of Iduun. This opened me to wondering about the stories of the Biblical stories of Genesis and the Garden of Eden. Reading Matthew Wood’s yet to be published manuscript “The Seven Guideposts of the Spiritual Path” brought my wondering to a peak, and I have ventured into using ecstatic trance to journey through the seven stories of Genesis, the stories of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph, stories that open up a new much deeper understanding of these stories.
In these stories who or what is the voice of God, the voice heard by Adam and Eve, the voice heard by Cain and Abel, the voice heard by Noah? Then after the Tower of Babel, a Tower build to reach to and be to be closer to God, the voices were no longer heard voices but visions seen in dreams or waking visions from an altered state of consciousness of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph, Jacob’s vision of wrestling with a man at the banks of the Jordan River, angel speaking of Sarah, and Joseph’s visions of a stalks of grain and the moon, sun and stars bowing to him, a branch of grapes and a cup, or a basket of baked goods being eaten by birds interpreted by Joseph, and of cows coming out of the Nile, or ears on a stalk coming out of the Nile, dreams of Pharaoh. These visions were messages that came from beyond the five senses, personal messages important to the receiver, as Joseph said to Pharaoh, “Messages not from me, but from God,” messages typical of those of ecstatic trance.
According to Julian Jaynes, the Tower of Babel was built at a point in neurological evolution of integration between the two hemispheres of the brain. Before the Tower the hemispheres were experienced separately, and voices in the right hemisphere of the brain were experienced by the left hemisphere as coming from outside the brain. After the Tower, when a person opened themselves to their dreams and other extra-sensory experiences, the experiences were divinatory predicting something of personal importance in growth and for the community.
God is the voices and visions coming from beyond the five senses of sight, sound, taste, smell and touch, experiences that could be attributed to the spirit of God, or to the spirits of a world beyond the five senses, the spirits of the Earth, spirits of our ancestors.
Such extra-sensory experiences are of value and for healing and not limited to the Judeo-Christian culture but are found in all cultures around the world, experiences that provided the shamans of their cultures their exceptional powers.
In ecstatic trance we use ecstatic posture of the Olmec Diviner for divination to find answers to questions.
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