Meditation & Altered States

Subject18 entries

Tarot · Major Arcana

The High Priestess

Intuition, Mystery, Subconscious

The guardian of intuition, inner wisdom, and the subconscious secrets waiting beneath surface awareness.

What it meansShe sits between the pillars of Solomon's temple with the scroll of the law half hidden in her robe. The knowledge is present and deliberately unread: this is not ignorance but reticence, the teaching that some things are known before they can be said, and spoiled by saying.

Symbol · The Ancient World

Labyrinth

The Path to the Center

One path, not a maze — the turns that feel like going wrong are the way in, and the way back out.

What it meansIt has one path and no choices, so it cannot be solved and cannot be entered wrongly. Everything that feels like error — the sudden turn away from the centre — is the route. Walked in place of a pilgrimage, it makes the journey a matter of continuing rather than deciding.

Symbol · Esoteric Symbols · the 1980s

Merkaba

The Chariot of Ascension

A three-dimensional star tetrahedron composed of two interlocking pyramids, serving as a divine light vehicle.

What it meansTwo interpenetrating tetrahedra, one pointing up and one down, counter-rotating — spirit and body held in one figure and turning against each other. The vehicle in the name is Ezekiel's chariot, and the reading is that ascent requires both directions at once.

Poems from the Masnavi 1

Passages 2

Books and texts 1

Teachings 2

Practices 2

Symbols 6

Tarot cards 4