Friday, January 11, 2013

Post No. 026: Shamanic Seeing — "The Sign of Super Guy!"‏


(Image by Paul Whiting)

Shamanic Seeing — "The
Sign of Super Guy!"

Looking up—and so spry!
He's a nerd!
He's so plain!
He's Super Guy!

The image illustrating this "Shamanic Seeing" post is a drip pan that I was cleaning with oven cleaner. You see, I kind of "swirled" the oven cleaner around in order to cover the entire drip pan... And I realized, later on, that I had kind of created a Superman-style letter "S" in a sort of 'abstract' way and, hence, the title of this post!

-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 poem (with 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 younger 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 patterns created during cleaning—and having that mean something to you a metaphorical way—as it represents some part of your subconscious mind.

And this poem (with 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 poem (with prose) applies to the message that I am trying to convey through "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer."

This poem (with prose) was written in Portland, Oregon.

-Paulee

https://paulwhitingwriting.blogspot.com

This "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" Post No. 026 was edited on December 7th, 2022.

"Poetry is using the fewest words possible in order to describe all that is possible to describe." –Paul Whiting [June 1st, 2022]

"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]