THE CAVE IN DREAMS AND SHAMANISM
In my childhood,
we lived next to a beautiful and completely untouched
These deep realisations. 1) Lying on my bed (
14th July.
1977
A time with a
group of travelling players, masks, feathers (see Jung for group anima, et
Al.). I dream of another cave with red iron-rich rocks and a terrible Goddess
lives there, beneath her jewelled canopy. This experience of red is contrasted
by a dream of snow white cabbage prepared by my grandmother. I dream of another
cave with red iron-rich rock!
28th
February. 1978
Green, almost
manicured valleys, lawns, rather like Glastonbury Abbey - with ruins - possibly
a cave, or such shape made from a ruined building. I approach a high energy
Kali Shrine, which is a single column with a sort of radio transmitter thereon,
beaming out a high frequency. Associations: lighthouse, lingam, pole, column,
transmitter. K+A+L+I=7 = The Victory of Realisation.
Drawing of
Dream:
A climb up a
luxurious mountain slope - to find a cave - wherein a huge, glorious open stone
phallus lies embedded amongst the moist ferns and stones and rotting humus. A
deep blue stone phallus, it is about 5 feet, veined like marbled paper, and it
has a pattern - i.e. the central streak is a clear lapis lazuli column of blue,
to the left and right of this, milky, cloudy veins. Within this Yoni cave.
Stepping back, I see deep beneath and behind the cave, a beautiful valley with
a meandering river.
June
26th.1978
(On train en
route to P.E.) Again, I am climbing up a steep mountain path - in front sits an
ancient Sage, with snow white hair and staff and bright blue eyes and pink
complexion. I climb to a ledge just above him and sit down on smooth shiny
marble rock, rather like the lingam in the fern-cave.
Nat &
Irene in a Valley - there are two caves - deep, round, tunnels. They are
supposed to be volcanoes. One is wet, or in other words active - the other dry,
or inactive (or vice versa). Above is a steep grassy hill. The dream is totally
connected to what I dreamt the night before sleeping: DE Rola, Alchemy, p. 123:
Two Alchemical procedures, The Humid Way, and the Dry Way - plus a secret Third
Way - the Lightning Way. Later Phase: Hugh and Cheryl give me a beautiful
Tibetan calendar for 1979.
29th Sept.
1978
A huge spider
- with a body like a mountain tortoise. I dream of Andries - a deep, dark cave
where I find a sarcophagus, and a statue of a dog.
January
29th. 1980
I am with my
father in a seaside cave - the sea is rising and we are trapped. An ancient
stone staircase at the back - I intuit a door encrusted therein - but the sea
resides. Recall that the ocean represents my mother as in her State she
threatens the two of us with her subconscious.
January
30th. 1980
Another
underground grotto - in shingled yellow rock - silent and hot desert - there
are Chaldean cuneiform-type carvings on the walls - the nymphs were there -
Temple Goddesses - and they had devoured the King, or surrogate King.
Oct.11th.
1980
A crow like
bird, cliffs, caves, greenery and an abstract threat. Fear of falling - Baakens
krantzes. Deep forest beneath.
29th June. 1991.Sat.
Left for
28th May
1995.