The Terrifying Place

As I was listening to music and grasing the web idley. I stumbled across this little gem, I thought I’d put it out here, and perhaps describe a little of my beliefs regarding this mythos, and how accurately Frank Herbert described some of my beliefs. Although I’ve got a feeling that perhaps initially I was impressionable, but later on through my path I began to see the truth of it.

In the book “Dune” the author Frank Herbert, describes the rise of the Messiah 8000 years from now. Herbert, who studied among other subjects ecology, psychology and eastern philosophies, created a reliable world that describes in minute detail the rise of “qwitzat haderach” - the messiah (qfitzat haderech is an ancient kabalistic term that describes the ability to be in two places at once). The whole book is interwoven with wisdom that can serve the enlightened reader in his personal growth.

The process and change that the books’ hero, Paul Atreides, goes through is in fact a process of enlightenment and divine consciousness, and the recognition of our higher self that exists within us all.

One of the lines in the book is: “That which submits rules”. This short sentence holds the secret of true human enlightenment. All the cosmic forms are creative expressions of one force. All the mystical traditions say that one can experience cosmic unity through various exercises, by which the practitioner gradually eliminates his false identity (self) and his connection to the material world. In the end, the practitioner is able to fully experience the whole cosmos every single moment. When this is achieved the higher self is awakened.

The conscious person understands and experiences cosmic perfection in everything and what results is true awareness of all the processes and occurrences within the universe. He remains totally uncritical of anything. He who awakens to unified cosmos has powers, vision and wisdom that are far greater than the average person who is still identifying with the illusion and the false “self”.

Dune

Crappy jewelry on that page, but a nice succinct synopsis. This got me thinking about my own spiritual journey, where I’ve been, where I am, and maybe even where I’ll be in good time. There was a time, a few years ago, when I used to believe I was having a nihilistic panic attack. I used to lay awake at night and dream of the Abyss, and be drawn to it… In morbid curiosity, like an place that is so terrifyingly stark, you wish to avert your eyes from the horror, but the void locks your gaze and opens up wider for your terror.

It was only after much, cogitation on this (I don’t meditate, I like to think, and conject on issues). That I realised that I was seeing the void within myself, the threshold between the social fluff, and the core of my being. Later on, I came to call the void, Morrighan. Only after I recognised this threshold for what it was could I then work towards embracing it, and siphening threads through it, holding them up to the fluffy mass, finding mismatches, and launching salvos against my own personailty.

It was during this ongoing process that I found Druidry, and started to re-arrange priorities in my life and aim them at spiritual growth, support of family, extended-family, and tribe. I don’t know if ‘Druidry’ from an academic stand-point is the catalyst. Most likely, not, because I don’t study Druidry, I attempt to live it, and interact with it, and like-minded people. It’s a base-camp, a comfort zone of familiar tales, familiar ancient characters, and lessons to be learned. A nest in which mistakes can be made, and are learning experiences.

Where am I going with this? I don’t know, perhaps I should just recommend to people that typically hate Science Fiction, that Dune, its sequels and prequels are a lot more than Sci-Fi. They encompass at least one man’s belief in that every human is capable of bettering themselves, de-programming themselves, and turning themselves into a tool to aid others on the path.

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