Iconology - Plant and Mountain

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These images originated in “directed imaging” experiences.

Both plants and mountains are symbols, or sources of symbolic imagery, thorough out human history and prehistory. This image was an exploration of what I might call “primal imaging.” I typically do not “hang on” to internal or external experiences. If they do hang around I am sure I am resisting something about those experiences. Both plant and mountain images came as “fun”. There was nothing to resist there for me. In the case of this drawing I wanted to get it out before it disappeared to see what it would look like as an drawn image.

Image - The plant was “seen” during a process, which replicated a Kahuna healing ritual in which I saw a steel filing in the eye of a workman (I had no prior knowledge of this person), which required immediate attention. I was told later that the person I was talking about, the brother of my partner in this exercise, had had a recent accident in his shop with a lathe and had postponed going to a doctor thinking that the problem wasn’t serious. The filing subsequently threatened the sight of the workman. The prelude to the healing vision was this walk around a plant with my fingers.



Image - The Mountain “showed up” one day while drawing.