I posted the Story of Persephone because it is such a beautiful description of the two worlds I navigate on a regular basis. \u00a0Except that for me the dark realm is most often painful and confusing, with times of depression, terror, and despair, and the light realm can be piercingly beautiful, but too often it reminds me of all the beings that are suffering.<\/p>\n
I’ve had a number of names<\/a> for the dark realm: Symbolic World, Heraldic World, Invisible World, Imaginal Realm, Shamanic Realm. \u00a0In the post where I talk about them, I quote Carol Lee Flinders:<\/p>\n Inherently \u201cmore real\u201d than everyday reality, this noncorporeal world has always been thought to surround and sustain it and to percolate up into it at regular intervals, visible and audible for those who are attuned to its presence. I say about my experience:<\/p>\n I knew, without being able to articulate it, that the symbolic realm was no colorless abstraction of Platonic Ideals, no far off heaven somewhere up there, that this realm was colorful, magical, mysterious, and contained the true beings of the trees and birds and streams I loved.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n I talk about my struggle as I travel back and forth in a post about Ereshkigal<\/a>:<\/p>\n Ereshkigal says to me: The reward is great depth of perception, great power in expressing what you see, and the glorious moments of bringing through a truth from the shamanic world.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The price is self-doubt, and conflict, a struggle to keep your balance among the great spinning wheels, constant effort to see truly, rejection of easy answers.\u00a0 The reward is the satisfaction of encountering truth: bone-hard, bone-deep.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Other posts about bringing through a truth:<\/p>\n Awakening Kali<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Truth Express<\/a><\/p>\n Writing the Real Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I posted the Story of Persephone because it is such a beautiful description of the two worlds I navigate on a regular basis. \u00a0Except that for me the dark realm is most often painful and confusing, with times of depression, … Continue reading
\nCarol Lee Flinders<\/a>, Enduring Grace, p 84<\/p><\/blockquote>\n