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| Lair of the Serpent Queen |
It is symbolism. In the western world, the predominant "magick" is "science". We focus on the physical world and believe that reality is the lowest common denominator of what we, as a cultural group, can measure, perceive, and explain. What we can all agree on, the things we all observe as repeatable patterns from day to day, compose our accepted version of "objective reality", which we perceive as concrete, factual, and immutable.
Reality is not immutable. There is NOTHING immutable about it. Truth is paradox. Change is the only constant. Change will occur, its constant flow is the only certainty.
Shamans are those who possess the ability to see beyond the limitations of "objective" - that is to say, culturally accepted - reality.
The artist possesses a mode of shamanism, whether he/she realizes it or not. The created image is but a snapshot of something beyond our normal experience. Staring at a piece of art, the viewer creates it in his/her mind as a reality, attempting to experience it as something real. Most often, we attempt to apply the rules and regulations of our culturally accepted (western/scientific) reality upon this experience. Where is the tentacle headed woman standing? How can she function and exist in a capacity we can identify with and understand... The answer is, SHE CANNOT. The being in the image does not, CAN NOT function in the context of the reality we understand and thus, the mind is tormented by her presence. We cannot make sense of her, as much as we try. This is the lesson we must learn. Life is not to be "understood", "made sense of" or "classified". It is to be experienced. You are one eye amongst a million eyes, all experiencing something whole, and yet separate. A broken mirror. AUM.
-CHUK
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