My inner artist dances with this post! At last someone else willing to let go the hierarchical view of some colours being higher than others. Yes, to the inner attitude of surrender to whatever image wishes to be formed, longs to come up, to be encountered. Yes, of course! Dreams not needing to be remembered, or put through analysis, to do their thing.
Guided meditation is such a cringe for me. I can be guided, yes, by the drum, the song, the ritual, the place, the other being, but not by words alone. Someone telling me when to breathe in or out, only messes up my breathing.
I deeply feel the loss of place, of tribe. I hardly am indigenous. But the answer given to you is so true. It is all the relations, of which we only know one millionth I suspect. We are only just starting out on that journey.
And yes to the vision quest, of giving space and time to the imagination during the waking hours....
Ah, so much in here. The feathered dragon... where to start?
Thank you Bertus. I think your arrow has landed right in the heart of the Anthropocene there. The hierarchical system wants to control EVERYTHING. Not just our actions, thoughts, and beliefs. But our feelings, experiences, our creativity, even our dreams!
I usually don't remember my nighttime dreams. "I'm a daydreamer," I usually say to people who want to invite me to some 'dream-interpretation workshop'.
In my kind of daydreaming I always unterstand what they (the dreams, my Imagination) are trying to tell me. I wouldn't necessarily be able to put the messages into words. I don't need to. It's a spontaneous type of understanding, through images, which say more than 1000 words (as we know).
Thank you so much for your thoughts and feedback 💚 🙏
Wow. Great chapter. Read a few times. Brings to heart- McGilchrist The Master and Emissary and The Matter With Things dancing with Plotkin and Richard Wagamese. Swimming in coulor. Turquoise oceans and Magenta skies. As above. So below. A door. A poem. A life. A soul. Bless you Veronika. Your writing is a vision quest. 🙏❤️
Week by week, chapter by chapter, the book of the Noctarine is emerging into the 3-D world. This post being on the Imagination and the role it plays as one of the eight Faculties of Consciousness. The "WindTrees" experience was certainly unforgettable, and one of those moments that gifts one's life in a more authentic direction.
"We see through a glass darkly" and see only shadows on the cave wall, but with Synchronosphy a beacon of light is shone into our con-fused inner world. Another great write.
Yes... and the way we stumbled into the whole WindTrees chapter of our lives was quite remarkable in hindsight too. Not even knowing what a 'VisionQuest' was... It has certainly launched us into a lifelong VisionQuest!
What a joy and adventure to be on this VisionQuest with you 💗🙏
Oh.my.god. Veronika you are doing such brilliant work. I’m breathing deeply over here trying to calm my heart rate after reading this chapter.
Your critique of anthropocentric visualization hits home in a way I could never explain though I always felt that this “typical” visualization was a subtle form of violence toward self. It never made sense to me that it was used within the guise of wellness and healing.
I want to see schools and universities built around your work someday. Synchronosophy breathes hope, harmony and healing into this planet. It’s such a magnificent and necessary departure from where we are and yet it’s also as ancient as the infinitely collaborative unfolding of our beautiful earth.
Thank you so much, Kimberly! Thank you for seeing Synchronosophy!!!
As I write, I am also groping my way through the dark towards this beautiful world I know is possible, which embraces so-called negative experience and recognises its dormant potential. Your receptive heart and mind gives me hope that this is possible, that there are kindred spirits out there who see, feel, believe ~ no, who KNOW this at a deepest level too.
Yes, Synchronophy has been gifted by my Inner Genius, and my job (as I understand it) is to share it as best as I can in the most accessible way.
Thank you for seeing me! Your vision is mine too ...
Your explorations, your work and your writing never fails to both excite my curiosity and fuel my inspiration to learn, while also granting me deep comfort and peace inside the mystery of it all....
Goosebumps were induced by the synchronous private meeting you were granted at the cafe!!
Thank you Jacqueline, I'm so happy that sharing these experiences and thoughts travel to deep places, from my heart to yours... 💚 🙏
Yes, that synchronous date with our 'ancestors' was one of those moments you never forget in a lifetime. And at Land's End of all places, where all roads literally drop off the cliffs and into the ocean...
indeed! I think that's where Synchronosophy is guiding me... to develop maps and trails to enable us to read the signs in everyday life and recognise that guidance... to perceive and interact with the beautiful world in which we are all indigenous natives
Dreams, I believe, reflect our inner world and often reflect our memories that have been repressed during childhood. Recurring dreams of a negatjve nature, called nightmare in English and cauchemar in French, are transmission signals of the mind.
Now, the question becomes what we do with this information. Acknowledgement is one first step; as is discussing it with people you trust, as is communing with Nature. What is not good to do, and I have done this, is forget about it and try to bury it in the recesses of our minds.
This might come out as a physical ailment. I think it is true in my case with a cancer diagnosis. Our minds and our Imagination are powerful and it is better for our health to listen to what it is transmitting to us.
Words come in fragments here; the presence at the computer keyboard a dreamcatcher.
"I am a daydreamer" per your comment to Bertus, per symbiocentric visualization. Dreams as living and needing not interpretation but presence to what is living through them.
"In the beginning is relation." Martin Buber
Georg Groddeck, MD, a contemporary of Freud, so drawn to understanding the expression of the organism out of harmony with true self (disease), coined the term, It, to describe the mystery (of consciousness) as the organizing principle of all life. Freud borrowed Groddeck's It as the Id but took it in a wholly different direction (i.e., conditioned belief in eros as source of "original sin" in W.) spiraling back to your words again (remedy): "The serpent of all cultures unifies the feminine and masculine. This is not a pair of opposites but a oneness of the two principles which give birth to life. The ‘inner hollow’ of the snake represents the womb, the outer shape is a phallic symbol."
None of these fragments an integrated whole and yet, in a dream state, they are, and I thank you. . . .
Those fragments were wholly nonsensical outside of the dreamspace you usher us into, and what fertile soil is that space. . . .
Groddeck: His idea of It was that there could be no representational construct of what an 'It' is and so a way of describing the unseen creative force in us, making his "It" quite a contrast from Buber's It in I-It, and Freud's Id. Groddeck, unfortunately, later became influenced by Freud's take on repressed sexual everything. But his early reflections are illuminating. Anyway, I digress wildly.
I subscribed a long while ago after reading some of your comments on Kimberly's Unfixed posts. And I have to admit that I just read my first Synchronosophy post. Wow! I'm going back to start at the beginning. There is so much wisdom here, it's going to take a while for me to catch up but I'll leave a trail of comments as I journey on. 💜🌿
I have to catch up before I can go forward with your writing but reading this makes me truly excited. In my small stack titled, Monsters Myths, Legends and More. I touch upon the serpent influence so imagine how excited I was to read your beginning. What we are facing now is to go even further back when the serpent was not embedded into our very being. I look forward to reading your past writings. Very exciting. It is understood-in one translation of our human journey-that dream time might represent a period of time when humanity was not linked to the serpent; where one can receive direct experience and join with Truth
My inner artist dances with this post! At last someone else willing to let go the hierarchical view of some colours being higher than others. Yes, to the inner attitude of surrender to whatever image wishes to be formed, longs to come up, to be encountered. Yes, of course! Dreams not needing to be remembered, or put through analysis, to do their thing.
Guided meditation is such a cringe for me. I can be guided, yes, by the drum, the song, the ritual, the place, the other being, but not by words alone. Someone telling me when to breathe in or out, only messes up my breathing.
I deeply feel the loss of place, of tribe. I hardly am indigenous. But the answer given to you is so true. It is all the relations, of which we only know one millionth I suspect. We are only just starting out on that journey.
And yes to the vision quest, of giving space and time to the imagination during the waking hours....
Ah, so much in here. The feathered dragon... where to start?
Thank you Bertus. I think your arrow has landed right in the heart of the Anthropocene there. The hierarchical system wants to control EVERYTHING. Not just our actions, thoughts, and beliefs. But our feelings, experiences, our creativity, even our dreams!
I usually don't remember my nighttime dreams. "I'm a daydreamer," I usually say to people who want to invite me to some 'dream-interpretation workshop'.
In my kind of daydreaming I always unterstand what they (the dreams, my Imagination) are trying to tell me. I wouldn't necessarily be able to put the messages into words. I don't need to. It's a spontaneous type of understanding, through images, which say more than 1000 words (as we know).
Thank you so much for your thoughts and feedback 💚 🙏
Wow. Great chapter. Read a few times. Brings to heart- McGilchrist The Master and Emissary and The Matter With Things dancing with Plotkin and Richard Wagamese. Swimming in coulor. Turquoise oceans and Magenta skies. As above. So below. A door. A poem. A life. A soul. Bless you Veronika. Your writing is a vision quest. 🙏❤️
Thank you, Jamie for your appreciation and for mentioning these names. I'll most certainly follow up on those tracks. 💚 🙏
Week by week, chapter by chapter, the book of the Noctarine is emerging into the 3-D world. This post being on the Imagination and the role it plays as one of the eight Faculties of Consciousness. The "WindTrees" experience was certainly unforgettable, and one of those moments that gifts one's life in a more authentic direction.
"We see through a glass darkly" and see only shadows on the cave wall, but with Synchronosphy a beacon of light is shone into our con-fused inner world. Another great write.
Yes... and the way we stumbled into the whole WindTrees chapter of our lives was quite remarkable in hindsight too. Not even knowing what a 'VisionQuest' was... It has certainly launched us into a lifelong VisionQuest!
What a joy and adventure to be on this VisionQuest with you 💗🙏
Oh.my.god. Veronika you are doing such brilliant work. I’m breathing deeply over here trying to calm my heart rate after reading this chapter.
Your critique of anthropocentric visualization hits home in a way I could never explain though I always felt that this “typical” visualization was a subtle form of violence toward self. It never made sense to me that it was used within the guise of wellness and healing.
I want to see schools and universities built around your work someday. Synchronosophy breathes hope, harmony and healing into this planet. It’s such a magnificent and necessary departure from where we are and yet it’s also as ancient as the infinitely collaborative unfolding of our beautiful earth.
Thank you thank you for your genius self.
Thank you so much, Kimberly! Thank you for seeing Synchronosophy!!!
As I write, I am also groping my way through the dark towards this beautiful world I know is possible, which embraces so-called negative experience and recognises its dormant potential. Your receptive heart and mind gives me hope that this is possible, that there are kindred spirits out there who see, feel, believe ~ no, who KNOW this at a deepest level too.
Yes, Synchronophy has been gifted by my Inner Genius, and my job (as I understand it) is to share it as best as I can in the most accessible way.
Thank you for seeing me! Your vision is mine too ...
This poem was in my inbox this morning and I had to share because of its beautiful understanding of symbiosis and love:
You Belong
The way grass belongs to the meadow—
how without it, the meadow
would not be a meadow—
this is the way you belong in my heart.
Not that I’ve made a space for you here,
more that you’ve helped make my heart what it is,
and without you, my heart is not my heart.
I cradle you here as in a nest of wheat—
soft home, humble home, ever rewoven
to fit the exact shape of you.
It’s not true our hearts are our own—
they’re symbiotic as meadows in spring.
The heart exists for who grows in it.
You belong here like sunshine, like grass, like wind.
—Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
what a stunningly gorgeous poem!
Thank you so much for sharing,
for our symbiotic seeking
and for being here 💗🙏
Your explorations, your work and your writing never fails to both excite my curiosity and fuel my inspiration to learn, while also granting me deep comfort and peace inside the mystery of it all....
Goosebumps were induced by the synchronous private meeting you were granted at the cafe!!
Thank you Jacqueline, I'm so happy that sharing these experiences and thoughts travel to deep places, from my heart to yours... 💚 🙏
Yes, that synchronous date with our 'ancestors' was one of those moments you never forget in a lifetime. And at Land's End of all places, where all roads literally drop off the cliffs and into the ocean...
Incredible magic. Reminding us it's there to tap into and guide us at all times....what a beautiful world!
indeed! I think that's where Synchronosophy is guiding me... to develop maps and trails to enable us to read the signs in everyday life and recognise that guidance... to perceive and interact with the beautiful world in which we are all indigenous natives
Dreams, I believe, reflect our inner world and often reflect our memories that have been repressed during childhood. Recurring dreams of a negatjve nature, called nightmare in English and cauchemar in French, are transmission signals of the mind.
Now, the question becomes what we do with this information. Acknowledgement is one first step; as is discussing it with people you trust, as is communing with Nature. What is not good to do, and I have done this, is forget about it and try to bury it in the recesses of our minds.
This might come out as a physical ailment. I think it is true in my case with a cancer diagnosis. Our minds and our Imagination are powerful and it is better for our health to listen to what it is transmitting to us.
I agree wholeheartedly. We have learned to listen to our dreams (especially nightmares), and they have protected us on several occasions. 💚 🙏
Ah, a very well researched and informed piece. What interesting information too; in depth research into dreams and aboriginal culture; well done!
Thank you so much, Bethel. 💚 🙏
Veronika,
Words come in fragments here; the presence at the computer keyboard a dreamcatcher.
"I am a daydreamer" per your comment to Bertus, per symbiocentric visualization. Dreams as living and needing not interpretation but presence to what is living through them.
"In the beginning is relation." Martin Buber
Georg Groddeck, MD, a contemporary of Freud, so drawn to understanding the expression of the organism out of harmony with true self (disease), coined the term, It, to describe the mystery (of consciousness) as the organizing principle of all life. Freud borrowed Groddeck's It as the Id but took it in a wholly different direction (i.e., conditioned belief in eros as source of "original sin" in W.) spiraling back to your words again (remedy): "The serpent of all cultures unifies the feminine and masculine. This is not a pair of opposites but a oneness of the two principles which give birth to life. The ‘inner hollow’ of the snake represents the womb, the outer shape is a phallic symbol."
None of these fragments an integrated whole and yet, in a dream state, they are, and I thank you. . . .
Thank you for tuning into the dreamspace and letting your words float through.
Freud seems to have been a keen borrower, while figuring out his Œdipus complex...
and thanks for mentioning G.Groddeck, he hadn't been on my radar yet.
Thank you also for the reminder of Martin Buber. My father was a 'great fan' of his...
Those fragments were wholly nonsensical outside of the dreamspace you usher us into, and what fertile soil is that space. . . .
Groddeck: His idea of It was that there could be no representational construct of what an 'It' is and so a way of describing the unseen creative force in us, making his "It" quite a contrast from Buber's It in I-It, and Freud's Id. Groddeck, unfortunately, later became influenced by Freud's take on repressed sexual everything. But his early reflections are illuminating. Anyway, I digress wildly.
I subscribed a long while ago after reading some of your comments on Kimberly's Unfixed posts. And I have to admit that I just read my first Synchronosophy post. Wow! I'm going back to start at the beginning. There is so much wisdom here, it's going to take a while for me to catch up but I'll leave a trail of comments as I journey on. 💜🌿
Warm welcome to Synchronosophy, Tania 💚 🙏
Very much looking forward to your commentary trail.
In the meantime I'll explore your Sacred Environment....
I have to catch up before I can go forward with your writing but reading this makes me truly excited. In my small stack titled, Monsters Myths, Legends and More. I touch upon the serpent influence so imagine how excited I was to read your beginning. What we are facing now is to go even further back when the serpent was not embedded into our very being. I look forward to reading your past writings. Very exciting. It is understood-in one translation of our human journey-that dream time might represent a period of time when humanity was not linked to the serpent; where one can receive direct experience and join with Truth
So interesting! Thank you for sharing, Elizabeth 💚 🙏
I look forward to delving into your work too!!
It is all part of the puzzle of life. I am so excited to have found you.