Honouring the invisible, growing into illumination
When I was taken into an emergency surgery to save my eyes from blindness due to a sudden and inexplicable retinal detachment, I was only 23.
My life had just begun. Left home at 21 to pursue my art studies at the Academy of Fine Art, losing my sight could not happen! Painting was my life.
We take our precious senses for granted. Through our senses we feel, perceive, we experience human life on earth.
After that traumatic experience I embarked in a project with visually impaired young people, involving drawing deliberate marks on paper and recording the sound that act produced. The “sonic impression” produced a memory upon their imagination through which they could relive the moment of creation. The significance of the “sound-image” and its potential meanings and interpretations resided in the mind of the listener.
The experiment caught the attention of a musicologist teaching at the academy that year. A fascinating experiment where a new “language”, “The Sign Sound”, was created, in which our friends could “see” in their mind’s eyes, recognise and reproduce their drownings through their sound vibrations. It was magical and like magic everything made sense for them, their accomplishments were astonishing!
In their humbleness they taught me so much, true masters of the soul, no external appearance could distract them. They know you and appreciate you for who you are, for where your heart is. The electromagnetic field of the heart is a major factor in their communication and interaction with the external world. They feel and perceive deeply on a subtle energetic and vibrational level, like Snake. With an absent sense of hearing, for survival, snake rely on the vibrations they pick up from the external world, with an acute tuning to their inner resonance.
The retina is a precious phenomenon, able to pick up the light and translate it into form. By phototransduction, the retina converts light energy that enters your eye into electrical signals sent by your optic nerve to your brain, which creates the images you see.
We receive the gift of light daily from the great sun Ra, unconditionally and relentlessly bathing us in its warm rays.
Without our retina, how do we convert light energy into images and form?
Like plants, even without retina, we absorb light and convert it into energy for growth, spiritual illumination and manifestation. We harness light energy for creation, translating light potential into form. With intention and invocation, wisdom and magic.
We affect our life and the external world with the energy field exerted by our thoughts, states of mind, intentions and actions. Consciously or unconsciously, we alter the rate at which the atoms of our bodies vibrate and the electromagnetic field of our heart.
The ancient Egyptian gods Hu, Heka, and Sia, which accompany the sun god Ra in its cyclical journey, represented the necessary elements for manifestation, guided by the creative intelligence that accompany creation from light.
“With Sia (wisdom or perception) and Hu (divine utterance or invocation), Atum (the creation god), uses Heka (magic) to create the cosmos at the beginning of time. Every day, Re renews himself using this same magic. Hu (the breathy voice vibration - sound), is magical breath, inhaling and exhaling…. Sia is wisdom and understanding; he is the power of conscious thought and focused attention….. and Heka is spiritual intention, the force behind magic. All three divine beings exist in the realm of God as the light and life force that extends into the universe.
All three must be kept in the mind of the high priest shaman and within the heart of the pharaoh from the opening of day to its close—and especially on the soul’s journey through death, the dreamtime, or through the night.”¹
Embracing the eternal creative light within and the divine light intelligence, we receive the light of Ra, “the spiritualizing consciousness that enters the third eye (Sia) and then moves down to the throat to become an embodiment of the god Hu. Sia is part of the Eye of Re and represents “seeing true,” an accurate perception that is inseparable from divine understanding.”²
And so it is that in our mind and within our heart we hold our inner vision and express it into the world, striving towards “seeing true” beyond the physical eyes and become the ‘Eye of Ra’: the “eye of truth”, to be the light in the world and imagine the world into existence.
Notes
1. Ellis, Normandi, Imagining the world into existence: an ancient Egyptian manual of consciousness, 2012, Bear & Company
2. Ellis, Normandi, Imagining the world into existence: an ancient Egyptian manual of consciousness, 2012, Bear & Company
Bibliography
Ellis, Normandi, Imagining the world into existence: an ancient Egyptian manual of consciousness, 2012, Bear & Company
