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3 Signs That Your Visions Are Real.

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What is a vision?

Why is it that if a vision evokes fear, it is a psychotic break, wherein when a vision evokes faith and determination, it is divine? Where is the line between the prophetic and the mad? Let me tell you: there isn’t one.

Before you check yourself into the nearest nuthouse, consider the possibility that what you are experiencing, unusual or unpleasant as it may seem, is perfectly legitimate.

Consider the possibility that just because the culture around you does not recognize what you are, it doesn’t mean you have to accept what they tell you, you are.

Consider the possibility that all this is going somewhere. That this breaking down of barriers between the conscious mind and the infinite unconscious has a purpose. Perhaps it is the answer to a question you forgot to ask. Perhaps this slippery slope is the means of transportation to the life you know you should be living. Maybe it is divine.

Maybe your terror is really the result of a cognitive dissonance so deep and encompassing that you’re finally becoming sane. Maybe the madness has always been there, and it is leaving you.

You will never find out unless you see it through to its natural end.

If there is anything to be afraid of, it is the people around you. They who cannot see. They who cannot bear your wailing and your elation, being bereft of the capacity to feel their own.

A vision is more than an inner visual stimulation. It is an experience encoded in the language of Creation.

A vision dissolves the barriers of time. All time happens simultaneously.

A vision dissolves the barriers of space. The curtain between worlds opens up, and the same safe, small space one occupies in body is also seen to be occupied by the presence of others. Some human. Some not.

A vision is visceral. Your body will respond to it. Your synapses will light up. Your heartbeat will change. Your breathing will become the wind in the place you are viewing. Sounds not your own will escape from your lips. You may write. You may moan. You might scream. You might cry. You might see the answer you’ve been seeking all your life.

You might not recognize it. It will come back around again, someday.

You may think, that deciding how to define your visions doesn’t matter because it will not change them. But you’d be wrong.

Perception determines experience. If you let them, your visions will teach you that.

Experiential reality may not be objective, but it undeniably determines the quality of your life. How you name, process, and hold your experience is everything when it comes to fate. Your conclusions determine what you will and will not allow, what you will or will not attempt, what you will or will not give yourself permission to be and become.

If you decide you are mad, you will learn what madness truly is. If you decide you are a prophet, you will come to understand the nature of prophesy.

There is a school of thought in this culture that says, if you don’t fit in, you’re sick. If you don’t comply, you’re a freak. If you see what others cannot, you are in need of medical care in the form of forced drugging, physical bondage, and electro-tortures.

If you believe they can help you, they will singe your brain and tell you you are healing. They’re a faction of the old dungeon-masters, reincarnated just to make you suffer until you agree with their take on reality.

Until you promise to behave, to be docile and non-threatening to the social and political agendas that have been working so well for so long.  Until you pinky-swear you are devoted to their way. Only then might you be released, cautiously, back into the world, well-medicated and smoking with terror. It worked during the inquisition.

It worked during the Middle Ages (Medieval, sounds like ‘many devils’). And it still works, sometimes.

This is how great souls get captured.

So, what’s it going to be, Seer? Are you going to learn your lessons under the loving guidance of the divine, or are you going to give yourself over to a tiny cage and leave the real work to the ones who are willing to learn a new language?

Or are you going to own what’s inside you, claim what is yours, and develop your super-power into something that is healing, that is holy, that can change the destiny of the world?

It’s up to you.

 

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{Claim What Is Yours}

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Alison Nappi

Alison Nappi

Alison Nappi is the creator of The Wildness Deck; she is a writer, a creative consultant, and spiritual teacher coaching Wild Women back to the arts of creation and embodiment through ceremony, creativity, and oracular feats of wildness and wonder. When she splits off from the pack, you may find Alison howling at the moon through a thick canopy of trees, singing songs with trumpeting daffodils, or dancing her embodied prayers around a campfire, mud in her hair. Like Alison on Facebook or send an email to be added to her mailing list.
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