Symbols - What does heaven look like
Pierced with swords

A type of rebirth experience in which the person having the spiritual experience feels themselves and usually sees themselves, to be pierced with swords, lances, arrows, daggers or knives. This experience is usually part of the dismemberment process, but may not always be, occasionally there is just piercing but no actual cutting up
The symbolism is the same as with all rebirth experiences in that it symbolically shows the reconfiguration of the person’s functions with the removal of unwanted function and the addition of new needed function. The purpose is to make the person fit for a new role within the spiritual world connected with their destiny.
Instead of the process being a long slow gentle one however, it is completed within one visionary experience and is thus traumatic, as the removal of the functions and addition of new ones can be felt physically and real pain ensues.
The Composer simply adds images suited to the degree of reconfiguration that has had to take place. If the person is lucky they simply become unconscious during the worst parts, if they are not lucky they symbolically see and experience every step of the process.
Observations
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- A P Elkin - Aboriginal men of high degree - Arnhem land initiation
- A P Elkin - Aboriginal men of high degree - Dieri initiation
- A P Elkin - Aboriginal men of high degree - Mulukmuluk
- A P Elkin - Aboriginal men of high degree - Pointing and projecting magical substances
- A P Elkin - Aboriginal men of high degree - Southern Australian initiation
- A P Elkin - Aboriginal men of high degree - Webb and Warner 2
- A P Elkin - Aboriginal men of high degree - Yualai (Euahlayi) initiation
- A Psycho-Spiritual Experience Ibogaine by KBF
- Aliens with scythes
- Anaesthetist goes out of body
- Ancient Egyptian - Osiris and its symbolism
- Ancient Egyptian - The symbolism of the four sons of Horus
- Aurora Consurgens - 02 An allegory of entombment
- Aztec Codex Magliabecchiano - Aztec rebirth
- Burmese boiling
- Burmese rebirth by crucifixion
- Burmese rebirth by swords
- Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - The Third Day
- Chod
- David Lewis-Williams - Native American Indians - Rebirth and violence
- Egyptian Book of the Dead - Spell 153
- Homesweet Home, But Not Yet - Toad Venom by White Rabbit
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - Dismembered by swords
- Kahuna - Caves and rebirth in North Borneo
- Kahuna - Rebirth in Sarawak and Borneo
- Mayan - Kirchoff - 'Arrow sacrifice'
- Metamorphosis San Pedro by Anopseudonym
- Mircea Eliade - Describes a Tibetan Tantric rite
- Mircea Eliade - Describes Altaian shaman rebirth
- Mircea Eliade - Describes Arunta rebirth
- Mircea Eliade - Describes Tungus rebirth
- Mircea Eliade - Describes Yakut shaman rebirth
- Mircea Eliade - Eskimo rebirth experiences
- Mircea Eliade - On caves and rebirth
- Mircea Eliade - On Tibetan rebirth experience
- Mircea Eliade - Rebirth In the cave of the Reindeer woman
- Mircea Eliade - The initiation rites of the Aranda (Arunta) of Central Australia
- Mircea Eliade - Tibetan Buddhism - Rebirth
- Moreau - St Sebastian and the angel 1876
- Mutwa, Vusamazulu Credo - Consumed by leopards
- Mutwa, Vusamazulu Credo - Undergoes rebirth
- Nuremberg Chronicle - Saint Lucy
- Plutarch - De Iside et Osiride
- Quakers - Kirk describes his rebirth
- Redon, Odilon - Les Noirs 1
- Saint Sebastian - The matrydom of St Sebastian
- Saint Teresa of Avila - Pierced by an angel
- Saint Teresa of Avila - Sees herself in a large field alone
- Simon Magus - The ‘death’ of Simon Magus, from the Nuremberg Chronicle
- Soustelle - Aztecs and Mexica - Rebirth misunderstood
- Spencer and Gillen - Atnongara stones
- The other night, I dreamed of a weasel with one eye biting my arms
- Thompson, Francis - Strange Chief, with the scars of Thy conquest trenched about
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 09 - 3 The Dinner
- Villoldo, Dr Alberto - The ayahuasca ceremony
- Vitebsky, Piers - Siberian shaman
- Zosimos of Panopolis - The Vision of Zosimos - 03