Decoupling Metaphor

[freyjasdaughter]

The simplest way for me to describe what the first stages of a Seidhr trance are like is to compare them as a process to sinking down into a river and treading water at a neutrally buoyant spot.  You know, a river.  Of water.  Like, outside and away from your computer and your office and your living room and TV.  If you've never been swimming in a

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[freyasman]

I admire your ability to verbalize your experiences so clearly. Because of your writing skills I can actually experience, in a once-removed kind of way, your experience! Your posts help me think about my own experiences. My experiences of reading others comes in my personal practice with Freyja when there is something important for me to see and when I meet with my counseling clients at work. When I listen to my clients I spontaneously enter an altered state in which I just know, in the moment, from where they come and where they are going unless something significant happens. I've learned to ask questions and make comments to help my clients verbalize their own line and make changes if they want to-and have the strength-or prepare for what's ahead. I do not feel that the read is mine in any sense , but that it flows through me. I do not try to do it. It just happens. It does me! Do you experience anything similar?

[freyjasdaughter]

Thank you...

It sounds as though your experience has some parallels with mine, though I don't often get to use it in direct practice the way you do. When I'm seeing for someone I find that the information seems to just appear. My sensation is that I have to stay partially detached from it and allow it to flow because if I attempt to hold onto it and interpret it I stall the process.

What A experiences as a pattern reader is remarkably similar to your description. As an avowed atheist, the last thing he wants to be told is that he's "making Seidhr,' however, LOL.

[freyasman]

Ha! Well, I can understand how an atheist wouls resist it being called seidr. Yes,remaining detached and seeing or witnessing the knowing is what happens with me. Sometimes I get hooked by what a client says and I go rational but when I become aware of it I can shift back.