Symbols - What does heaven look like
Ferry
Ferries are symbolic of crossings, you cross the water to the other side. Thus symbolically speaking, you go from the Earth across the water, to another shore – another levels and layers or beyond that . The ferry is thus yet another symbol for a ‘means of transport’, a bit like a boat. The difference is that someone else does the ferrying for you. If you have help with a spiritual experience from a hypnotherapist for example, you are symbolically speaking being ferried.
The ferryman is to be found worldwide from the Greek myths of Charon to the Indian allegories and stories of the ferryman. Thus as one can see, the person who helps you can take you down to the underworld or up to the other levels and layers.
The Buddhist text named the Prajna-paramita , for example, is called ‘The Wisdom (prajna) Gone to the Other Shore (paramita)’. In most Buddhist teaching however, the ‘other shore’, is not just simply any old spiritual experience, it is the journey out of your cone and into the bowl of the cone beyond that means you have achieved enlightenment [see Types of Spiritual Experience].
Prajna Paramita-hrdaya sutra
O thou who art gone, who art gone, who art gone to the other shore, who hast landed on the other shore, O thou enlightenment, hail.
Observations
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- Amsterdam
- Bayard Taylor - Poems of the Orient – The Garden of Irem
- Billy Joel - The River of Dreams
- Böcklin, Arnold - Isle of the Dead (1880-1886)
- Book of Five Spheres - The Fire Scroll - Crossing a Ford
- Brittia
- Burton, Sir Richard - THE KASÎDAH 03 3
- Cash, Johnny – Relates the story of his dying brother Jack
- Cayce, Edgar - He was with me at the river
- Cohen, Leonard - Ballad of the Absent Mare
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - Water Ballad
- Dickinson, Emily - Pass to the Rendezvous of Light
- Dürer, Albrecht - Symbolism - Mary with child
- Dürer, Albrecht - Symbolism - The sea wonders
- Epic of Gilgamesh, the
- Gaudi - Professional work - 11 The Artigas Gardens
- Gentling the Bull – 01 Searching for the Bull
- Guru Granth - Bilaval 03
- Han Shan - Encounters with Cold Mountain Translated by Peter Stambler - MY CANDLE GUTTERS IN A SUDDEN GUST
- Hobson, Dr Allan - The effects of a stroke 03 - A monkey mama is floating in the air in front of him
- I'm coming across the river, Honey. Wait for me
- Khusrau, Amir - Ghazal 870
- Lalla - For a moment I saw a beautiful moving river
- Lalla - I’m towing my boat across the ocean
- Lalla - The road I came by wasn’t the road I took to go
- Larsson, Carl – And a poem by Pär Lagerkvist
- Lyrics from the Chinese - The gourd has still its bitter leaves
- Michelangelo - 1534 Sistine Chapel - 04 Last Judgement
- Mirabai - I have found
- Mirabai - Life in the World
- Mirabai - The Bhil woman
- Mirabai - We do not
- Mircea Eliade - And the Manacica people
- Moreau - Sappho on the rocks and self portrait 1872
- Nerval, Gerard de - El Desdichado
- Nick Bostrum - On the bank at the end Of what was there before us
- Pauli, Wolfgang - Dream, 28th August 1954
- Pillar of the Boatmen
- Ravidas – from the Adi Granth 04
- Ray Davies and the Kinks - 1965 See My friends
- Ruth Hall has an NDE and goes to paradise hearing celestial music
- Samavedas – Book 04 Chapter 01, XXI Soma Pavamana
- Spencer, Stanley - Symbolism 05 - The Nativity
- Spilliaert, Leon - The Crossing
- Ssu-Kung Tu - Concentration
- Surdas - Lord heed not my faults
- Symbolism - Korean mystic shamanism - Path or road
- The bridge or barrier in the NDE 03
- The bridge or barrier in the NDE 05
- The Heart of Prajñāpāramitā - 'Gone, gone, gone to the other shore, gone together to the other shore.
- The Sutra of Hui-Neng - Paramita
- The Tai Chi Grand Master and the rainbow bridge
- The Tai Chi Master gone, gone to the other shore
- There and Back Again: A Journey to Death 5-MeO-DMT by Harry Shimlight
- Tranströmer, Tomas - from Along the Lines (Far North)
- Tranströmer, Tomas - Two Cities
- Tulsidas - Vinaya Patrika 19
- Various symbolic concepts - Nibiru
- W.Y. Evans-Wentz - The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries - The Narrow Bridge
- Yassawi - 25 HIKMET 128
- Zimmer, Dr Heinrich - On the ferryman