Staring into the mirror
The introduction of separation necessarily engenders communication
As in the grail mysteries, the king and the land cannot be separated.
The wounded fisher king presides over a wasted land.
The seemingly ‘outside’ world of our senses becomes a dazzling mirror of ourselves; A linguistic construct. Symbol and communication made ‘flesh’.
Its ‘reality’ only lies in our experience of it and ‘our’ communication with it.
This linguistic process yields perfectly valid information, despite its ‘hallucinatory’ nature, for the same reason that a nightly dream yields valid information; It says something true and significant about the dreamer: his or her drives, desires, fears, traumas, etc.
Consensus reality uses ‘beginners all-purpose symbolic instruction code’ in a desperate communication. It reaches out, appealing to our interpretative capacities.
“Can you figure out what I really mean?” It beseeches.
The question isn’t necessarily rhetorical or redundant, for the ‘other’ may not know the answer. In fact, we may be the means through which it hopes to solve the riddle.
The quest turns out to be a search for the ‘grail castle’ and an opportunity to ask ‘the question’.
This ‘castle of souls’, like the celtic otherworld is not a part of our consensus ‘external’ world.
It might be visited once in youth, one may even be invited in, happening upon it without searching or seeking. The import of that encounter is only discovered when we realise the castle resists being found again.
The search becomes a lifetime quest.
