Another beautiful piece here, Alex. I'm just writing to express a sense of profound resonance, a way in which your experience matches my own in ways that seem astonishing. All the way to getting sober! And even to my recent participation in the Animas Valley Institute's Soul Craft Intensive.
Thank you for allowing these powers to speak through your pen. I honor the vulnerability implied. It inspires me to more courage.
Something's opening up for me as I listen, including what I'm sensing as an invitation to notice archetypal figures that I have not considered before.
Thank you, Gibran. Your words moved me. And I’m so glad to hear you’ve been part of the Soul Craft work with Bill Plotkin’s lineage. I hear that’s deep and potent terrain. Thank you for bringing a part of your own journey here. May the archetypal presences guide you well, and may we keep meeting each other in these mythic waters.
Beautiful! I’ve had a similar journey with the Gaia archetype, and have come to view my self-regulation as an expression of her homeostasis, and my self-expression as her voice. Thank you for sharing Pan’s voice. I actually consider myself a panpsychologist!
Thank you, Tham. I really resonate with what you shared, especially the way you experience self-regulation as Gaia’s homeostasis and self-expression as her voice. That lands deeply. As a panentheist myself, I feel consciousness flows through everything, and your framing aligns beautifully with that.
Thanks for sharing Alex! I like the way you explain your thoughts and feelings about your journey. I have experienced some of what you describe and I have a new relationship with nature and animals that is very different than it was before. I am going to read about the mythopoetic field so I can understand what it is. Also, is this in the realm of magic(k), when you talk about Pan and the archetypes. Thanks again and have a great weekend ✌️👍🍁
Thank you, Theo. I appreciate you taking the time to read and share your own experience, especially your evolving relationship with nature and animals.
As for your question about whether this is in the realm of magick (with a “k”), I’d say: not quite how I understand it. From what I’ve read, magick often involves intentional practices: invocations, rituals, and directed will toward specific outcomes. In my case, nothing like that occurred. I didn’t invoke Pan or seek him out. I didn’t even consciously think of him at the time.
Instead, what happened felt more like a quiet emergence in my field of consciousness. I began noticing repeated synchronicities. His image appeared unexpectedly, again and again, over a few days. The timing and symbolism were too specific to ignore. That’s when I began researching Pan and realized something meaningful was showing up, asking to be noticed and seen.
So no ritual, no invocation, just presence. The sense that something archetypal had entered my awareness and wanted to be witnessed.
To some, this might seem magical because there’s no scientific explanation or obvious cause-and-effect. But I see it more as a layer of reality that is always here, just usually hidden beneath our everyday senses. A kind of symbolic or mythopoetic layer that becomes perceptible when we’re attuned. I’d argue that a great deal of reality is like this: real, though not visible.
Thanks again for engaging! Wishing you a beautiful weekend too.
Good morning Alex, I have so many synchronicities and visions and now I’m able to control different aspects of my abilities whereas before I had a more limited understanding. I’ve experienced some cool stuff seeking the light while my eyes were closed but no particular experience with Pan, although I might have and just didn’t realize it. Have a nice day today!
Another beautiful piece here, Alex. I'm just writing to express a sense of profound resonance, a way in which your experience matches my own in ways that seem astonishing. All the way to getting sober! And even to my recent participation in the Animas Valley Institute's Soul Craft Intensive.
Thank you for allowing these powers to speak through your pen. I honor the vulnerability implied. It inspires me to more courage.
Something's opening up for me as I listen, including what I'm sensing as an invitation to notice archetypal figures that I have not considered before.
Thank you, Gibran. Your words moved me. And I’m so glad to hear you’ve been part of the Soul Craft work with Bill Plotkin’s lineage. I hear that’s deep and potent terrain. Thank you for bringing a part of your own journey here. May the archetypal presences guide you well, and may we keep meeting each other in these mythic waters.
Beautiful! I’ve had a similar journey with the Gaia archetype, and have come to view my self-regulation as an expression of her homeostasis, and my self-expression as her voice. Thank you for sharing Pan’s voice. I actually consider myself a panpsychologist!
Thank you, Tham. I really resonate with what you shared, especially the way you experience self-regulation as Gaia’s homeostasis and self-expression as her voice. That lands deeply. As a panentheist myself, I feel consciousness flows through everything, and your framing aligns beautifully with that.
Thanks for sharing Alex! I like the way you explain your thoughts and feelings about your journey. I have experienced some of what you describe and I have a new relationship with nature and animals that is very different than it was before. I am going to read about the mythopoetic field so I can understand what it is. Also, is this in the realm of magic(k), when you talk about Pan and the archetypes. Thanks again and have a great weekend ✌️👍🍁
Thank you, Theo. I appreciate you taking the time to read and share your own experience, especially your evolving relationship with nature and animals.
As for your question about whether this is in the realm of magick (with a “k”), I’d say: not quite how I understand it. From what I’ve read, magick often involves intentional practices: invocations, rituals, and directed will toward specific outcomes. In my case, nothing like that occurred. I didn’t invoke Pan or seek him out. I didn’t even consciously think of him at the time.
Instead, what happened felt more like a quiet emergence in my field of consciousness. I began noticing repeated synchronicities. His image appeared unexpectedly, again and again, over a few days. The timing and symbolism were too specific to ignore. That’s when I began researching Pan and realized something meaningful was showing up, asking to be noticed and seen.
So no ritual, no invocation, just presence. The sense that something archetypal had entered my awareness and wanted to be witnessed.
To some, this might seem magical because there’s no scientific explanation or obvious cause-and-effect. But I see it more as a layer of reality that is always here, just usually hidden beneath our everyday senses. A kind of symbolic or mythopoetic layer that becomes perceptible when we’re attuned. I’d argue that a great deal of reality is like this: real, though not visible.
Thanks again for engaging! Wishing you a beautiful weekend too.
Good morning Alex, I have so many synchronicities and visions and now I’m able to control different aspects of my abilities whereas before I had a more limited understanding. I’ve experienced some cool stuff seeking the light while my eyes were closed but no particular experience with Pan, although I might have and just didn’t realize it. Have a nice day today!