William Blake wrote of his visionary experiences: Now I may say to you, what perhaps I should not dare to say to anyone else: That I can alone carry on my visionary studies in London unannoyd, & that I may converse with my friends in Eternity, See Visions, Dream Dreams & prophecy & speak Parables unobservd & at liberty from the Doubts of other Mortals; perhaps Doubts proceeding from Kindness, but Doubts are always pernicious, Especially when we Doubt our Friends. I will go so far as to say that the above quote could have been written by me, as I have experienced in exactitude this exasperating problem. His quote suggests to me that he was well-reasoned about its place in society, as something unacceptable. This also strongly implies that he was neither a psychotic nor delusional, as he knew that such phenomena did not sit well with the materialists point of view. Only someone who has their wits about them could say such a thing. I have a hunch that although Blake experienced visions more regularly than many with a psychic gift, or second sight, he remained largely untrained in its use. This doesnt mean that they did not have a profound effect upon him and his authorship. But I wonder about his interpretation of what he saw. An issue for many who work directly with psychic sight is the issue of interpretation. The subconscious mind tends to color what is presented in the garb of what it is conditioned to. Thus many see Christianized beings, including the Virgin Mary, or a Jesus because the mind is trying desperately to interpret to the conscious mind what it is perceiving. Such visions are conveyed to us as a form of telepathic communication. So Blake was most likely seeing what he called angels but who should have rightly been called intelligent projections of spirits.
Posted on: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 17:43:45 +0000
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