I would like to hear from anyone who experiences disharmonious relations with the World of Spirit, especially those who have no other mental health issues. Please share with me (and the other readers of this blog) a few words in the comment section at the bottom of this post.
Hi there. Yes, I have. I am mentally stable, albeit physically unwell, and though it was an extremely stressful and tiring experince that I could not share it in a meaningful way with anyone but my mother, I was able to investigate it with a scientific (read rigorously analytical) frame of mind and write a book about the paradoxical nature of reality. It offers a whole new perspective on the spirit world - but the book is not out yet as there is still much work to be done, so I'm not trying to advertise it here!
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid to say, that we have all been prone to superstitions and a host of illusions about the spirit world, but it's also normal that we have to go through them very thoroughly before we can emerge as well-balanced individuals and move on to a realistic idea of self. Psychosis is one way of connecting with the feeling self - being challenged by disembodied people is another. Sometimes they appear to coincide.
I'm in awe of your art and music, and can see that you're going to be alright in the end. You're a very soulful person with a glorious future ahead of you. I realise that you haven't written in a few years and so I don't know how you're doing these days, but I'm sure you have the inner resources to get through this ordeal in one way or another (it's obvious to me from the way you write, if I may say so). However, perhaps consider that there are no wandering spirits who hassle us purely out of malice? There are spirits, yes, but if they are here and not in Heaven, it is not due to a coincidence. I had six of them to begin with, but five left after a short while. I can now see that they helped me question half-arsed beliefs that I had at the time. One remained, and she's still here, but we are now in accord. The challenges have helped me understand the nature of the psyche and how it acts as a mirror of reality. I've seen how this kind of experience serves to heal our fragmented self by correcting illusory belief systems. I wish you patience and all the best on your journey!
Hi tight-rope a thousand thank yous for your comment and kind compliments. I was very interested to read what you said. It is very very good to hear of someone with a similar experience and I'm glad you also have a scientific mentality towards spiritual matters. It is interesting to consider that we should "think outside the box" and not rule things out too easily - the "paradoxical nature of reality". Good luck with your writing, I hope your answers come to you easily and with wonderful inspirations. I think the culture could use a change, and the rational/scientific approach is most valuable.
DeleteThank you for your kind thoughts. I kind of left the blog, and I shouldn't have done - I will start posting again soon. There is a new story to tell. Thank you for believing in me! I wish to find my way to a different reality in this lifetime and live a LOT more in peace. Today the message is Nature time (being outside) and meditation.
You have made me appreciate that one of the values of the experience is it telling you you are sensitive - not meaning fragile, but awakened or awakening to something larger - you are knowing. So what does that mean to you, I wonder? ;) To me it means you have taken an evolutionary leap.
Thank you for your interesting comment. I wish you light and encourage you on your writing path.
Mr. S
P.S. I really do mean that your art is profound. I especially liked the electronic piece you call rowdy. It is remarkably expressive of complex feeling states, honest, and anything but unpleasant. I would love to hear more. I hope you'll accept my praise as before experiences with the spirit world, I was a visual and sound artist myself - at the moment I'm a consumer of music who is starved for food for the soul!
ReplyDeleteThank you! The art came straight of the 'unconscious', the old stuff, - but maybe it all does anyway??
ReplyDeleteI am becoming more interested in visual and sound art combined. I have been listening to a lot of modern ambient music for a while, and my favourite artist (one of them) is BvDub - go look him up...
It may be that I'll make some new things and put them up here, I think that would be a good idea. I'd really like that.
If you're looking for some really peaceful, nice music, I would recommend Nada Himalaya by Deuter. Maybe that will fill you up!
Interesting, thanks. BvDub - not bad, just a bit too homogenous for me at this point. I needed soothing music earlier in my life - but as I’m changing, I’m finding it more soothing to listen to electronic music with a more futuristic male sound to it. Funny how it goes, eh! Am liking Arms and Sleepers, for instance. :)
ReplyDeleteHi again, thanks for your reply, my first took three months, yours two hours!
ReplyDeleteI like music to 'tune out' what's going on otherwise, so I usually am listening to something. I just looked up Arms and Sleepers and didn't get very far - I pretty much can't listen to music with voices. I love techno now! (One of the last things I bought was an EP by Lady Starlight.) Otherwise I make my own music. I'm looking forward to really devoting myself to a longer composition, rather than always being spontaneous which is what I usually do. I love to sit and play the keyboard/ piano and make it up as I go along. So it will be a big change to make something deliberate, the first plan is something long and abstract/ambient with beats and tones, also some recompositions of folk songs done with different sounds onto computer. I'd like to take my time over it and so that's not just a day or a week, but work over months, I think. But I think this would be a nice place to put it when I've finished!
Nice to get your reply!
I look forward to hearing what you come up with - it sounds marvellous. I just left another comment above but I wonder if maybe it got deleted by mistake? If that’s the case, I’ll try and rewrite it. I’m not so used to these comment boxes!
ReplyDeleteHi again!
ReplyDeleteI'm really excited about the new music, I hope to have it up in the next 6 months, you'll have to check back.
PS There wasn't another comment! There was a blank one much earlier which I deleted. Nice talking to you, I hope you can rewrite.
Damn! I’m really buggering this up! A shame really, because one always has a certain drive the first time around. Anyway, there isn’t that much I feel I can say in a public space but what I did say earlier was that from a lot of deep thought about these types of phenomena and the basic assumption that we are all basically one, I have seen that there are levels of the type of experience people have traditionally called ‘possession’. It’s not so difficult to imagine that voices are symbolic of disowned aspects of the self, but what I firmly believe (or know, as the case may be) is that voices CAN also belong to people who appear to be separate from us but that do in fact belong to the self in a larger sense. And so as an individual progresses on their evolutionary journey and needs to fill the ‘gaps in their soul’ in order to become whole, they may find themselves challenged by disembodied people with whom they share their inner self. They are not evil - they merely express what the ‘possessed’ person has disowned, or rather, misunderstood. What I see is definitely not a fragmentation of the psyche however hard it may be to go through the experience - by the time a psychotic episode and/or an encounter with the spirit world has occurred, the problems that have brewed in the unconscious are already becoming conscious.
ReplyDeleteWhatever we encounter, we are better off trying to embrace and endure, because it is in the acceptance that the key to true healing and spiritual fulfilment lies (though I have to admit that I have seen life after spirituality too...). I am not a medical professional but it’s my informed opinion that manifestations of illness are not symptoms of degeneration but of regeneration! The reason is that the psyche can only heal itself through awareness. Whether your voices are aspects of your smaller self or are in fact disembodied people who mirror more substantial disharmonies on the level of the psyche, I see it as a fantastic opportunity to integrate shadowy aspects of the self! So this is a very brief summary of some of my ideas, and I do hope that this little fragment is helpful to you! I hope that you will continue believing in yourself and pouring your experiences into art. I’ll just post this now so it doesn’t get lost..!