Symbols - What does heaven look like
Thread and cord
We have both inputs and outputs coming from and going to the spiritual world. In effect we are symbolically connected to the external spiritual world, firstly via our composers, and Higher spirit but also symbolically by a sort of ‘conduit’ to us.
- Spirit input – shown blue below – is principally invisible input. Ascending via spiritual input notably invisible input is seen symbolically as ladders, chains or stairs
- Spirit output is our Perceptions – shown red below. Ascending via our perceptions is symbolically described using coils, thread, ropes, cords, string and so on. Anything that can be conceived of as a type of string is a means of ascent but via perceptions.
Although ladders, ropes and wings all appear to be similar as means of ascent, there is a very distinct difference symbolically.
- Wings - The ones with wings are those who are capable of having spiritual experiences with little difficulty. In a sense they are the ‘mystics’, but they are also naturally able to ‘fly’.
- Ladders, chains and stairs - Those with ladders have a rather slow upward climb that involves stages and steps towards the goal of enlightenment. These are people on the spiritual path. As a consequence those on ladders have spiritual awareness and are climbing up to the spiritual world via wisdom and inspiration, for example, as opposed to visionary experiences
- Ropes, threads, thread etc - The ones using perceptions have to have assistance from above and occasionally below and are always having to pull themselves up by sheer hard work against the ‘gravity’ of the pull to the earth – the physical. It means the person is much more attuned to the world of physical perceptions and the physical, and is not naturally a spiritual traveller. If they make it, it will only be through sheer force of will and perseverance.
It appears that the type of ascent is not always of our choosing, it is decided by destiny.The symbolism of the rope or vine or similar is worldwide. In the 1940s, for example, Alfred Metraux discovered that the South American Caribs experience visions induced by tobacco juice and hot pepper. They ‘see’ a twisted rope, climb it in the vision with the aid of ‘the Grandfather vulture’ and so reach the first level of the cosmos.
If we go ‘out of body’ this string is occasionally seen as the link between our perception function and the composer – traveling off into the rest of the spiritual realm for us.
This aspect is an important feature of the out of body experience.
It is our composer that does the travelling, but via our perceptions – this long cord that links us to the composer - our Conscious self gets to see beyond our own mind and body. The thread or cord is thus symbolic of our perceptions not any form of spiritual input.
Different tribes and indigenous people have various traditions about the thread that links the soul to the body. Australian Aborigines say that it issues from the mouth [or the penis].
Some see the thread coming from the centre of the forehead [the third eye], some from the back of the neck. The Selk'nam Indians of Patagonia, for example, say that in an out of body experience, the soul flies and trails a fine thread
If cut, the person dies as their soul/higher spirit has been severed from their body
Thus it is from these actual experiences from shamans that we get the generally held story of the 'Grim Reaper' who cuts the thread of life. In out-of-body experiences, which are acknowledged to be dangerous visionary experiences, this can happen. There are shamans who never found their way back.
Observations
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- A P Elkin - Aboriginal men of high degree - Dhakkan's watery dwelling
- A P Elkin - Aboriginal men of high degree - Dieri initiation
- A P Elkin - Aboriginal men of high degree - Goanna totem
- A P Elkin - Aboriginal men of high degree - Jajauring initiation
- A P Elkin - Aboriginal men of high degree - Medicine men can fly
- A P Elkin - Aboriginal men of high degree - Southern Australian initiation
- A P Elkin - Aboriginal men of high degree - The Bandjelang clever man
- A P Elkin - Aboriginal men of high degree - Threads and levitation
- A P Elkin - Aboriginal men of high degree - Throwing him into sky-land
- A P Elkin - Aboriginal men of high degree - Ungarinyin (Ngarinjin) man
- A Psycho-Spiritual Experience Ibogaine by KBF
- Ancestors, the - Art - David Lewis-Williams from The Mind in the Cave
- Ancestors, the - Art - Rock Art Kruger National Park
- Arifi of Herat - The Ball and the Polo Stick - He bade them put the saddle on a steed
- Aurelius, Marcus - Meditations - Fate
- Blackmore, Dr Susan - Goes out of body
- Blake, William - I will give you the end of a golden string
- Blake, William - Joy and woe are woven fine
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 42
- Bruno, Giordano – Cause, principle and unity - 01 The Second Dialogue
- Brunton, Dr Paul - A Search in Secret Egypt - A night inside the Great Pyramid 3
- Brunton, Dr Paul - A Search in Secret Egypt - A night inside the Great Pyramid 4
- Bullett, Gerald William - Maître de Ballet
- Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - The First Day
- Cirlot on chariots and reins
- Codex Azcatitlan - Aztecs and Mexica - Adepts
- Coiling
- Cretan complex
- Crowley - 13 Death
- Dante - Inferno - Canto 16
- David Lewis-Williams - The San [Xam] bushmen and the thread of life
- Degas - Miss Lalla
- Delog of Tsarong, the
- Deng Ming-Dao - Each day
- DPT - The Mind Is A Powerful Thing - Atman
- DPT, threads and slugs
- Dr Robert Crookall - More Astral projections - Peter M Urquhart has an OBE
- Dr Robert Crookall - More Astral projections – A man with a weak heart has a NDE
- Dr. C. E. Simons goes out of body in January 1890, when he was 23 years old and a medical student
- Durville, Hector and Henri - The observer felt blows, touches, or pulls by invisible hands and the phantom double was even visible
- Egyptian Book of the Dead - Spell 153
- Escher - thread and cord
- Ezekiel - Ezekiel 40 - The New Temple Area
- Fox, Oliver - Extremely unwell after chloroform
- Fox, Oliver - Wind, cords and pull in out of body states
- Gentling the Bull – 04 Catching the Bull
- Gentling the Bull – 05 Gentling the Bull
- Gerhardie, William - Resurrection 02
- Gerhardie, William - Resurrection 03
- Gerhardie, William - Resurrection 05
- Goethe - Faust Part 2
- Grant Gronewald - HTML flowers - Bright threadz
- Hammond, Bill - Jingle Jangle Morning
- Hammond, Bill - Ancient Pitch
- Hammond, Bill - Signal Box
- Harris, Bob – The Near death experience and OBE from Legionaire’s disease
- Hinton, Charles - What Is the Fourth Dimension – The threads of the loom
- Indriðason, Indriði – Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research Vol 57 – 03 Going out of body
- Jeans, Sir James - The Mysterious Universe - The Loom
- Joseph Campbell - Kung dancing
- Kabir - The flute of interior time is played
- Kabir - The woman who is separated from her lover
- Lalla - I’m towing my boat across the ocean
- Lethbridge, T C - ESP Beyond Time and Distance – The Harmonics of the cones
- Lethbridge, T C – ESP Beyond Time and Distance – Stone circles were laboratories in which power could be collected and stored until such time as it was needed
- Ludlow, Fitz Hugh - The pain of separation
- MacLaine, Shirley - Going out of body on a long silver cord
- Manning, Matthew - The Link - 25 Communication from his dead grandpa
- Marie-Claire experiences divine love in her NDE
- Marryat, Florence - The Spirit World – Edith, being in a state of clairvoyance, witnessed the process of separating the spirit from her sister’s body
- Masters and Houston - Loom and tapestry
- Melville Jean Herskovits - The Dahomey god of snake like things
- Michaux, Henri - Miserable Miracle Mescaline - Mescaline and Hashish compared
- Mircea Eliade - Australian Aboriginal Initiation rites
- Mircea Eliade - Tibetan Buddhism - Ropes
- Mircea Eliade - Unravelling the symbolism of a strange custom
- Monroe, Robert - The thread and cord when out of body
- Morrells, Luce and the egg
- Morrells, Luce and the loom
- Mr L Hymans has an OBE at the dentist’s and in a hotel room
- Muldoon, Sylvan - Cord length and width is health dependent
- Muldoon, Sylvan - Emotion increases 'cable-pull'
- Muldoon, Sylvan - Flying and swimming
- Muldoon, Sylvan - Getting lost in an OBE
- Muldoon, Sylvan - Interaction between spiritual and physical
- Muldoon, Sylvan - Stages in separation OOB
- Muldoon, Sylvan - The negative effect of fear
- Muldoon, Sylvan - Types of separation
- Mundaka Upanishad
- Music Bureau - The new wife
- Out of body and cord appearance or not
- Out of body from dentist
- Out of body from flu
- Out of body from flu
- Paul Devereux - Australian aboriginal – Flying through the sky
- Plato - Cratylus - On weaving
- Plutarch – The Vision of Aridæus 06
- Ramakrishna - Hymns of Ramakrishna - High in the heaven of the Mother's feet
- Rebell, Fred
- Redon, Odilon - Les Noirs 3
- Reid, Christopher - Whether truly modest or not , he wrote
- Rene Magritte and J H M Whiteman
- Resurrection of Osiris
- Rig Veda - The bond of existence is in non existence
- Rig Veda - Weaving the Matrix
- Rops, Felicien - Study for the Temptation of St Anthony
- Schuré - The Great Initiates – Hermes-Thoth
- Scott, Sir Walter - The silver link
- Shinto – Shimenawa
- Shot up like a rocket
- Six little mice
- Spencer, Stanley - Symbolism 03 - The Roundabout 1923
- Spencer, Stanley - Symbolism 07 - A village in heaven 1937
- Spinning
- Sri Aurobindo - 07 Savitri Book VII Canto II
- Stapledon, Olaf - Starmaker - The Loom
- Symbolism - Korean mystic shamanism – Costume: Thread or cord
- Symons, Arthur - The Loom Of Dreams
- Tagore, Rabindranath - Recovery
- The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead
- The Ishavasya Upanishad with Shankara’s Commentary 04
- The role of Spirit helpers in an NDE 01
- The Saami - A Cultural Encyclopaedia - The Power of the Drum
- Tolstoy, Leo - Confessions - The thread of life
- Traherne, Thomas - Centuries of Meditations - It is not by going with the feet, but by journeys of the soul
- Tranströmer, Tomas - Open and Closed Space
- Turvey, Vincent – The beginnings of Seership – Phone-voyance, OBE versus remote viewing
- Turvey, Vincent – The beginnings of Seership – The silver cord
- Typhoid
- Wereide, Professor Thorstein - The Trance Phenomena of Mrs Ingeborg
- Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass - Through me many long dumb voices
- Who Killed Cock Robin
- Willetts, Sam - Yarmulkah
- Yeats, W B - Selected poems - His Bargain
- Yram - The pull of the cord