Mystical experiences happen with me somewhat regularly (meaning randomly several times in a year). A very vivid one happened when I climbed up Pen Dimas, a bronze/iron/medieval hill fort in Aberystwyth, and as I walked through the original entrance all of a sudden I could hear and feel children laughing and running past me, all sorts of activities like blacksmithing, etc, taking place, I could smell smoke and bodies and animals, I could hear the sea below. I felt I was right in the centre of a thriving community. It was astonishing. It’s just open land now with a few interpretive boards about archaeological digs in the past. In my present reality I saw red kites skimming along the edges as they would have done back then. So I get what you’re saying.
WOW, Kerri. This gave me goosebumps. Thank you so much for sharing. Do you remember how old you were when you started noticing these experiences? And did you immediately know to value them? I'm convinced that telling kids off for daydreaming deprives our society of an awful lot of insight.
Hi Ellie, I spent a great deal of my childhood either in my head thinking or my nose in a book reading. Either way I wasn’t much open to the mystical although I did have an active imagination which came out in imaginal play when I was young or not very good drawings as I got older. Then I spent over 20 years as a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism, which gave me an incredible creative outlet but in rather specific ways. It’s only been in the last 10 years when I have gotten much quieter within that mystical experiences started being noticeable. I’m post menopausal now and while the number of these experiences hasn’t increased the vividness of them has. I call them ‘seeings’ because they often have an internal visual quality to them.
Another thoughtful and lovely piece Ellie. I always enjoy your posts. The mystical continuum, so to speak, is the human birth- rite and we should be able to naturally alter our vibration to connect with all worlds. What Shaman call a variation into our assemblage point. From which we perceive reality. There is always work to do at the level of mind and attention but imagination in its true sense is necessary. I enjoyed all the writers you cite and look forward to how you develop this scene.
Hi David -- thanks so much for this. "We should be able to naturally alter our vibration to connect with all worlds"—I couldn't agree more! And yes, isn't it strange how both "imagination" and "myth" have come to be synonymous with fabrication, because our society doesn't remember the different but very real order of the world they tell us of?
Mystical experiences happen with me somewhat regularly (meaning randomly several times in a year). A very vivid one happened when I climbed up Pen Dimas, a bronze/iron/medieval hill fort in Aberystwyth, and as I walked through the original entrance all of a sudden I could hear and feel children laughing and running past me, all sorts of activities like blacksmithing, etc, taking place, I could smell smoke and bodies and animals, I could hear the sea below. I felt I was right in the centre of a thriving community. It was astonishing. It’s just open land now with a few interpretive boards about archaeological digs in the past. In my present reality I saw red kites skimming along the edges as they would have done back then. So I get what you’re saying.
WOW, Kerri. This gave me goosebumps. Thank you so much for sharing. Do you remember how old you were when you started noticing these experiences? And did you immediately know to value them? I'm convinced that telling kids off for daydreaming deprives our society of an awful lot of insight.
Hi Ellie, I spent a great deal of my childhood either in my head thinking or my nose in a book reading. Either way I wasn’t much open to the mystical although I did have an active imagination which came out in imaginal play when I was young or not very good drawings as I got older. Then I spent over 20 years as a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism, which gave me an incredible creative outlet but in rather specific ways. It’s only been in the last 10 years when I have gotten much quieter within that mystical experiences started being noticeable. I’m post menopausal now and while the number of these experiences hasn’t increased the vividness of them has. I call them ‘seeings’ because they often have an internal visual quality to them.
There is really only One Moment!
Another thoughtful and lovely piece Ellie. I always enjoy your posts. The mystical continuum, so to speak, is the human birth- rite and we should be able to naturally alter our vibration to connect with all worlds. What Shaman call a variation into our assemblage point. From which we perceive reality. There is always work to do at the level of mind and attention but imagination in its true sense is necessary. I enjoyed all the writers you cite and look forward to how you develop this scene.
Hi David -- thanks so much for this. "We should be able to naturally alter our vibration to connect with all worlds"—I couldn't agree more! And yes, isn't it strange how both "imagination" and "myth" have come to be synonymous with fabrication, because our society doesn't remember the different but very real order of the world they tell us of?
Indeed, a by-product of reductive materialism and ‘scientism’. True scientist have an awareness of the Grace and the Mystery.