Loving The Mystery

Painting by Christian Shloe

A meaningful katabasis into the cave of initiation and secret knowledge is for the restoration of the whole person. The dead become an imaginal presence, “the growing understood as descent in the world, becoming useful to it and contributing to form, requires that it descend into the world that is under the world. To be an ancestor, a benefactor, a conservative and a mentor you must have knowledge of the shadows, being trained “from the dead” (from past…