I participated in the Essene Apprentice Attunement on Saturday the 8th--Thank you JMG for making the Essene training available to us! A couple of minutes after the attunement, I noticed that when I closed my eyes, I seemed to be looking at horizontal planks of cherry wood, very flat with extremely fine grain and well-finished. I opened my eyes several times and closed them again, and saw the cherry wood when my eyes were closed. This persisted for several minutes, then no more cherry planks.
Briefly, this sort of wood is significant to me because it featured in a dream I had while my Father-in-Law was dying. I was with him in spirit while he died.
Questions: 1) Is this the sort of experience that was mentioned as happening after attunement? 2) It seems odd that I would see something that for me was more associated with a death--Is hospice a possible pathway of Essene healing practice?
Thank you JMG and commentariat for any insights or comments you can give. JMG, I know you don't do dreams, but if anyone is interested I have included an account of that dream below:
The day of the attunement, the wood seemed familiar to me--
The next day, I remembered that I had had a dream of my father-in-law as he was dying, 15 years ago, which appeared in a woodcut made of this type of cherry wood. He was standing in a small round boat, typically made of leather stretched on a wood frame (called a coracle). I was invited by someone 'off-camera' to sit with him in the boat for a while if I liked. My father-in-law would not be able to see me or interact with me, but my presence would be some comfort to him. Father-in-law was standing in the coracle, looking desperately to the left and right at the cherry wood-cut waves. He did not have a paddle, and the coracle seemed to be shrinking. And then suddenly, he stopped looking around. His arms dropped to his sides, and he stared over my head at something behind me.
I turned around--And suddenly the woodcut was gone, replaced by quiet, grey water with fog on top. And coming through the fog over the top of the water was Death.
Death was in the expected black robe with a hood, gliding slowly over the grey waters, directly towards the coracle. I could not see his face or hands, though the robe had arms. No sickle, just a Presence.
"Time for you to leave now," the 'off-camera' voice said, with a calm authority -- And I was suddenly awake in my bed, very shaken up.
Just before I was taken from the boat though, I noticed that, oddly, Death was wearing a battered Caterpillar Tractor hat. This was the favorite hat of Father-In-Law's Brother, who had died ten years before him. I could see the bill of the cap plainly, very distinctive because of the way in which it was worn out. His brother was one of the kindest, gentlest men I have ever known.
So--I saw cherry wood that could be made into the same sort of woodcuts, but it was not carved, or not yet carved. My meditations on this seem to indicate that I have work prepared and set before me. This is possibly to do with dying people, or it could be symbolic of other works in Essene Healing.
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A couple of minutes after the attunement, I noticed that when I closed my eyes, I seemed to be looking at horizontal planks of cherry wood, very flat with extremely fine grain and well-finished. I opened my eyes several times and closed them again, and saw the cherry wood when my eyes were closed. This persisted for several minutes, then no more cherry planks.
Briefly, this sort of wood is significant to me because it featured in a dream I had while my Father-in-Law was dying. I was with him in spirit while he died.
Questions:
1) Is this the sort of experience that was mentioned as happening after attunement?
2) It seems odd that I would see something that for me was more associated with a death--Is hospice a possible pathway of Essene healing practice?
Thank you JMG and commentariat for any insights or comments you can give.
JMG, I know you don't do dreams, but if anyone is interested I have included an account of that dream below:
The day of the attunement, the wood seemed familiar to me--
The next day, I remembered that I had had a dream of my father-in-law as he was dying, 15 years ago, which appeared in a woodcut made of this type of cherry wood. He was standing in a small round boat, typically made of leather stretched on a wood frame (called a coracle). I was invited by someone 'off-camera' to sit with him in the boat for a while if I liked. My father-in-law would not be able to see me or interact with me, but my presence would be some comfort to him.
Father-in-law was standing in the coracle, looking desperately to the left and right at the cherry wood-cut waves. He did not have a paddle, and the coracle seemed to be shrinking. And then suddenly, he stopped looking around. His arms dropped to his sides, and he stared over my head at something behind me.
I turned around--And suddenly the woodcut was gone, replaced by quiet, grey water with fog on top. And coming through the fog over the top of the water was Death.
Death was in the expected black robe with a hood, gliding slowly over the grey waters, directly towards the coracle. I could not see his face or hands, though the robe had arms. No sickle, just a Presence.
"Time for you to leave now," the 'off-camera' voice said, with a calm authority -- And I was suddenly awake in my bed, very shaken up.
Just before I was taken from the boat though, I noticed that, oddly, Death was wearing a battered Caterpillar Tractor hat. This was the favorite hat of Father-In-Law's Brother, who had died ten years before him. I could see the bill of the cap plainly, very distinctive because of the way in which it was worn out. His brother was one of the kindest, gentlest men I have ever known.
So--I saw cherry wood that could be made into the same sort of woodcuts, but it was not carved, or not yet carved. My meditations on this seem to indicate that I have work prepared and set before me. This is possibly to do with dying people, or it could be symbolic of other works in Essene Healing.