Measurable Prayers and Wounded Warriors

by Dionysos Maskaleris

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I wonder if one prays in secret for an other if a measurable correlating change of brain patterns would happen in the one being prayed for.

 

I wonder if there are any differences or correlations with physiological brain pattern measurements [like REM patterns] between lucid dreaming, meditative and prayer states and self induced ecstatic experiences of artistic creativity. 

 

I wonder if a person experiences one of those three states of consciousness frequently - if that encourages the experiencing of the other states of consciousness and if they all become one. 

DIon

{All Dionysos Maskaleris writings copyright or copyright pending}

 

"Freud could not be further from what Lommel and many others have described: the shamanic attitude to art and life. Here, suffering is not to be fended off by art. Rather, the fruits of suffering and art combine, and help to build up the power of the psyche. Nor is shamanic imagination simply wishful thinking, keeping reality at arm's length: it gives birth to, shapes and nurtures 'reality'. Art in shamanism is thus far more than the evidence of personal or collective neurosis. It is one of the chief means by which the shamans master their personal initiatory illnesses, in order to fashion a life and work of inspiring, transpersonal import."

"...only a wounded person can be a healer... His wounds remain open, but his suffering from them is situated in depths from which another curative power arises, and this curative power is the creative process.... it [is] essential for the shadow side of the personality to be recognized, and brought into the play of creative vitality. There can be no light without darkness, and no order without chaos: the esoteric heart of the transformative process lies in the perpetual

inter-relation and transmutation of these two sets of complementary contrasts in the psyche."

"...when the Freudian school advances the opinion that all artists are undeveloped personalities with marked infantile autoerotic traits, this judgment may be true of the artist as man, but, it is not applicable to the man as an artist. As Artists, human beings are not people endowed with free will, simply seeking personal ends; but nor are they the sublimated end product of a determining childhood neurosis. They are the instruments of something much larger than themselves, and Jung insists that a person must pay dearly for 'the divine gift of creative fire'." 

 

-Three quotes from: 

'Dreaming With Eyes Open - The Shamanic Spirit In Twentieth Century Art And Culture' 

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