Friday, June 10, 2011

Post No. 011: Shamanic Seeing — "The Sacred Cow and Bull!"


(Image by Paul Whiting)

(Image by Paul Whiting)

Shamanic Seeing — "The
Sacred Cow and Bull!"

These two images illustrating this "Shamanic Seeing" post are from my surfboard-shaped coffee table, each one with what looks to me like a bovine in the image in a sort of 'abstract' way and, hence, the title of this post!

And in them, I see a Sacred Bull in one image, with horns and a nose ring. And I also see a Sacred Cow in the other image, with ears, eyes and lips!

And to me, these two 'abstract' images symbolize the Sacred Relationship that we truly have with Bovine Cows and Bulls.

So, we should always—and in all ways—treat these Sacred Animals with the utmost respect, because they truly are Sacred to God!

-Paul Whiting
(a.k.a., Poet, Artist and Philosopher)
"I am the poet who thinks that he knows it!"

My Philosophical Notes:

The reason that I wrote this prose can be summed up with the following statement: "Shamanic Seeing" is basically the same thing as the Rorschach test in that you are "seeing" what's in your subconscious mind!

In other words, it's just like when you were a child and you saw "a monster in your closet" at night, rather than seeing that "the monster" was simply the contents of your closet in the dark.

Thus, "Seeing Shamanically" is essentially the same thing: it is simply seeing a pattern in something abstract like the patterns in a painting—and having that mean something to you a metaphorical way—as it represents some part of your subconscious mind.

And this prose was also published on my "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer" blog (please see the hyperlink below for the blog), since I feel that the message in this prose applies to the message that I am trying to convey through "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer."

This prose was written in Portland, Oregon.

-Paulee

https://paulwhitingwriting.blogspot.com

This "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" Post No. 011 was edited May 5th, 2024.

"Prose is using all of the words that are necessary in order to describe all that is necessary to describe." –Paul Whiting [June 1st, 2022]