Celtic Visions by Caitlin Matthews

Author:Caitlin Matthews
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Celtic Visions
ISBN: 9781780282725
Publisher: Duncan Baird Publishing
Published: 2012-01-31T00:00:00+00:00

PRACTICE

Shining Light upon the Unknown

Whatever is mysterious to you is capable of illumination, if you take it with you into the darkness of the ‘vein of poetry’. Sit still somewhere in solitude, such as on a beach or on a moor or a hillside, then use your palms to cover your eyes.

Without exercising your rational function or trying to find a solution by ordinary means, take the matter into your soul and let it sit there. Make your own invocation, in your own words, for illumination and help to uncover what is needful to know. Speak or sing the words aloud and mean them, let them resonate, just as a stone drops into the pool and sends its ripples running.

In the half-dreaming of your stillness, many immediate thoughts or impressions will arise. If you are outside, the elements, the weather or animals may be part of your findings; do not exclude them as irrelevant. Be aware of the phosphenes that dance behind your eyes when you press your palms over them; their dancing is the pattern of the shapers, the spirits that attend this art. You may be caught up into that dance, or it may come inside you, deepening your understanding.

For your first trial, find a stone nearby and pick it up. Hold it in your hand and try Dichetul do Chennaib for yourself: what is the stone’s story, what does it tell you? Tell it as a story. For your second trial, hold the stone and speak or sing aloud the stream of ideas arising from it, in verse form or chant: that is your Teinm Laegda. For your third trial, hold the stone and wrap yourself up in your coat or shawl and lie down – on your back or side. Be aware of the light that is within the stone becoming larger until it encompasses you. Listen, feel, taste the story that it tells you. This knowing is your Imbas Forosna.

Ensure that the subject of your seeking doesn’t overlook someone else’s business, or isn’t knowledge that you can’t live with: as is often said, those who look into matters that don’t concern them, often find a distortion of themselves.

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