As per your request :
An elaboration of my experience , though it goes *much* deeper... [thumbup]
As posted by Shawn Blackwolf
December 1, 2016
Some may wonder how I can speak of the Faery , and my Tradition ,
with such authority , even challenging many preconceived ideas ,
or long held beliefs...( and I shall be doing so , in some different threads )
I offer my story :
( reposted from Black Moon / Rosey's Realm , under : Cost Of Living In The Faery Realm )
There is truth in the above words...
From personal experience , as I have never been the same , since my encounter
with the human representation of Pwll , and his wife , ( real life encounter ) ,
and my turning him down when he offered me his wife , the night they
showed up at my house in the pygmy forest on the California coast...
He constructed magickal tools which looked similar to those seen
attributed to the Tuatha De Dannan...
I had traded him for one of his small hammered silver blades in a rosewood and brass sheath...
With "stone in the sword" , not the sword in the stone , so to say...
He told me , after I turned him down , when he offered me his wife Tamar ,
( see Hebraic mythology )
I would receive a gift...he would not tell me when , or what it was ,
but I would know it when it arrived...lol !
( see references to Pwll , and Sir Gawain )
Well , within three weeks , I started a 19 day "kundalini" , or "fire in the head" experience...
I was given what we call the code , the law , or by many other names...
Native Americans have said I was "grabbed by the spirits"...
Then they laughed , and asked me how I liked it...
After 19 days of only about 20 hours sleep , a lot of
water , and very little food , seeing through my eyelids with my eyes closed at night ,
and a continual information stream , I walked down the road , miles from the coast...
Saw three ravens , which I have always had a symbiotic relationship with , and still do ,
every day , Cawed to them , they returned the call...
( see references to Anu , Babd , and Macha , as three ravens )
Suddenly two veered off , and the remaining raven rotated ,
Spread it's wings full open in front of the sun , and raven turned white , and the sun turned black...
( see references to "black sun" in many cultures , including Bon Po...)
And I came to , on my knees , in the middle of the country road ,
with tears on the ground , and streaming down my face , and
with missing time of a few hours , judging by the sun on the horizon...
As my Native Elder said...
"Does not matter if it happened here , or on the otherside...it happened"
"NOW...go put your back against a tree"...lol !
Yeah...23 years , and they still are constantly informing me...
As the Chinese have said :
A gift is a blessing and a curse...
And the Native Americans have said :
Unfolding the medicine bundle never stops...
It is like a rotating hypercube of information constantly turning you inside out , up and down and between the worlds...
I am often told I look a bit like Gandalf...lol..