Symbols - What does heaven look like
Clouds
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – from The Poems of Longfellow [printed about 1875] From Voices of the Night – Prelude
The land of Song within thee lies, Watered by living springs; The lids of Fancy's sleepless eyes Are gates into that Paradise Holy thoughts, like stars, arise Its clouds are angels' wings |
Clouds may also be ‘seen’ as a type of Barrier or boundary between Levels and Layers typically in the ‘Air’ level. In effect the symbolism is consistent with what one comes to expect in the physical world. Remember that all these images are being manufactured for us by the composer, so it puts together from what it encounters an image consistent with the symbolism we might recognise. Thus we may meet a cloud barrier.
The lower boundaries and barriers are often ‘seen’ as white thick opaque cloud, the upper of thicker denser and often darker clouds.
There are a lot of layers, it is extremely difficult to know where you are because there are no ‘landmarks’ and furthermore, the clouds appear to change, just as they do in the material world. People have become seriously lost up here and it helps to have a guide.
I am not joking in this, it may be symbolism and the travel may be ‘in your mind’ - within other vibrational layers and levels - but the dangers of being lost are real.
When travelling around the ring, the barriers are the same in the air level as they are going up and down, that is they are still clouds, the difference being that they are seen not as layers of cloud but as large fluffy cumulonimbus or similar clouds. These two can be quite daunting.
It is worth mentionning that the top most level before you get to the layer of aether can be almost purple, like a lowering storm cloud and when seen from below can be quite ominous and frightening. Rather like a storm cloud.
Observer 771
- I am sinking into a peaceful semi dream.
- My hands raise up, at least a white ghost of my hands raises up in a sort of prayer position.
- A long elongated figure rises up. It isn’t me because I can still see my hands, so it is something else. It gradually goes up, then grasps my hands. It isn’t very big, it is white, sort of translucent, long flowing with very elongated fingers, a spirit I suppose of some sort.
- I am pulled up and up. We go through a really misty sort of area where there appears to be nothing, this seems to go on for ages I can hardly see in front of me let alone see the spirit, but I know it is still pulling me up because my hands are in its hands.
- We break free of the mist and it is below us - a huge expanse of wispy thick ‘cloud’ white with gentle undulations along it. We are in a vast space whitish cream in colour, not blue, slightly misty, not clear, but not thick like the mist below. Lots of clear light.
- I can ‘see’ the spirit now. It isn’t very big. He is really playful, joyful and keeps doing twirls and circles and spirals in the air with me. As if he is like a leaf in an air current. I think he is trying to tell me what he is – could he be an air spirit – a sylph?
- We go up further now straight up and I see the upper barrier again – a purplish grey sort of cloud barrier. Impenetrable, which the sylph ‘says’ is forbidden.
Observations
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- Alexander, Dr Eben - has to go back
- Atharvaveda - IV 10 The Pearl and its Shell bestowing long life and prosperity
- Baudelaire, Charles - Les Fleurs du Mal - Above ponds, above valleys Mountains, woods, clouds, seas
- Baudelaire, Charles - Les Plaintes d'un Icare
- Baudelaire, Charles - My Beatrice
- Bax, Clifford - The Meaning of Man - Dear and fair as Earth may be
- Blake, William - Around Golgonooza lies the land of death eternal
- Blake, William - My roots are brandished in the heavens, my fruits in earth beneath
- Blake, William - We reap not what we do not sow
- Blithe spirit - Flying with the gods
- Blithe spirit - I almost reached the Light
- Blithe spirit - Palace and the hornets
- Blithe spirit - Thought palaces in pink and gold
- Braveheart - Enters a castle
- Braveheart - A long shamanic journey
- Braveheart - Crossing the bridge
- Braveheart - Guardians and keys
- Braveheart - Meeting three spirit helpers
- Braveheart - Meets demons
- Braveheart - Steam cleaned and broccoli
- Castles in the air
- Cayce, Edgar - Meets his Higher spirit
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - Religious Musings
- Colours more beautiful than he had ever experienced before
- Crowley, Aleister - Divine synthesis
- Dali - The Temptation of St. Anthony
- Dickinson, Emily - Like rain it sounded till it curved And then I knew ‘twas wind
- Dickinson, Emily - The lonesome for they know not what
- Dickinson, Emily - The Sun retired to a cloud a woman’s shawl as big
- Engel, C - Bakala and the bagpipes
- Ficino, Marsilio – Selected Letters - From a letter to Giovanni Cavalcanti, methods
- Frost, Robert - Let chaos storm, Let cloud shapes swarm
- Frost, Robert - The clouds, the source of rain, one stormy night
- Gardner, Ingrid - Up through the planets
- Genesis 09 - The Aftermath
- George Harrison - Stuck Inside a cloud
- Gnostic Gospels - Judas
- Godwin, Joscelyn - The Starlight years
- Goethe - Faust Part 2
- Goryeo sijo - So Kyongdok
- Goryeo sijo - Yi Chono
- Hammond, Bill - Unknown European Artist
- Healer H - Bracelets and necklaces
- Heine, Heinrich - The North Sea - Shipwreck!
- Herbert, George - Peace
- Hiroshige’s waterfall
- Hokusai - Mishima pass in Kai province
- Hokusai - Red Fuji
- Hokusai - Views of famous bridges
- Hokusai’s floating world
- Holderlin, Johann - Out for a walk
- Homer - The Iliad - The Hours
- How sweet the heavens are
- Huangdi Neijing - Suwen
- Ibn El-Arabi - The Tarjuman al-Ashwaq - Flashes of lightning gleamed to us
- Jami - SALÁMÁN AND ABSÁL – from 05 The Story
- Karma Lingpa's Zhi-Khro
- Khusrau, Amir - Ghazal 1
- Khusrau, Amir - Ghazal 1836
- Kipling, Rudyard - Kim - On fasting
- Ludlow, Fitz Hugh - The beauty of heaven
- Magritte, Rene - The Victory
- Master Naong - Song of the Pure Land
- Masters and Houston - The citadel
- Meister Eckhart - Selected writings - It is the Sun that has burnt me
- Meningitis
- Michaux, Henri - In the Land of Magic - The most interesting things in this country cannot be seen
- Mircea Eliade - Australian Aboriginal Initiation rites
- Monroe, Robert - Barriers and boundaries out of body
- Moody Blues - OM
- Morrells, Luce and an apocalyptic dream
- Morrells, Luce and Pink clouds and bliss from acupuncture
- Morrells, Luce and the angel of annihilation
- Moses - Exodus 34
- Muhammed - Isra and Mi'raj
- Near death on Cough syrup
- Nerval, Gerard de - 02 La Reve et Vie
- Ninety year old remembers his teenage NDE vividly
- Odetta - Mr. Tambourine Man
- Ogotommeli - Energy recycling
- Osis and Haraldsson
- Ovid - Metamorphoses - Birth of Bacchus
- Ovid - Metamorphoses - The Story of Daedalus and Icarus
- O’Keeffe, Georgia - Horns and flower
- Panic with unexpected rebirth
- Peake, Mervyn - The Wings 000141
- Persian caves
- Previn, Dory - Mythical Kings and Iguanas
- Rene Magritte and J H M Whiteman
- Rene Magritte and J H M Whiteman
- Reverdy, Pierre - Carrefour
- Ricardo from Mexico experiences divine love
- Russell, George William - Song and its Fountain
- S'RÎMAD BHÂGAVATAM – Canto 10, Chapter 20 – The Rainy Season and Autumn in Vrindâvana
- Saadi - A Drop of Rain was falling from forth a summer cloud
- Saint Brendan - 01 The Voyage of Saint Brendan
- Saint Brendan - 15 The Voyage of Saint Brendan
- Saw her son's baseball shoes levitating over her chest
- Schrodinger, Erwin - Mind and Matter - The Cat
- Seeress of Prevorst, the - A glimpse of Paradise
- Shaikh Muhammad Karim Khan Kirmani - Irshad al-‘awamm - Descent and ascent
- Shinto – Kagura
- Sterry, Peter - At our Birth, our Soul and Body are joined as Horses are put into a Waggon
- Ta Ssu Ming - Open wide the door of heaven
- The Cloud of unknowing
- Thinking of elevators
- Tholey, Paul and LaBerge, Stephen - Effects of Destroying the Ego Core
- Thoreau, Henry D - Walden - Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in
- Valerian, insomnia and anxiety
- Washington, George - A vision and a prophecy
- Watson, Lyall - Water
- Watson, Sir William - Epigram - The gods man makes he breaks; proclaims them each
- Weir Mitchell - The Effects of Anhalonium Lewinii [part 2]
- Wizard of Oz - Somewhere over the rainbow
- Wordsworth, William - Peter Bell
- Yram - On portals
- Yram - Rain
- Yram - The invisible universe is formless
- Yu Xuanji - Farewell
- Zhu Xi - Reflections While Reading