Eros Reawakening for the Artist

I carry within me an untamed feminine mystery, once dormant and long-forgotten in time. My life drew to me a succession of direct experiences which recalled only fragments of this memory until, during a sojourn in Hellas (Greece), when, on visiting the sacred sanctuary of Delphi, drinking from the serpent-guarded Castalian spring, and travelling through the ancient landscape of Arcadia, I experienced an Elysium – a prolonged ecstatic state of communion with the sensuality in Nature.

She aroused in me a profound recognition and remembrance of sacred alchemy, the gateway for mortals to merge with the divine. This elation was followed by what can be described as years of silence from the beauty I had once witnessed. Unable to discern the source of the separation, I retreated from the world.

Then, during an all-night entheogenic ritual, the connection returned, together with sequences of spontaneous trembling in my spine, until they culminated in an embodiment of a serpentine elemental force. With an explosive surge of power through my body, She revealed Herself as fierce, sapient, and sublime. When the episode subsided, I came to the realisation that, by drinking from the sacred waters, I had undergone a rite of passage to become a vessel for the nymphic current of the primordial Goddess. I had received the gift of self-realisation.

In the years that followed, my ability to embody the divine feminine strengthened. She expressed Herself through storytelling and incantations to recall ancestral memories. She revealed the significance of the erotic-mystic male initiation rites and the universal narrative of the Goddess and Her beloved shepherd-musician (proto-Orpheus), Her mortal lover who, through descent, incarnates Her dying-and-rising consort. These revelations prompted me to seek confirmation in the sacred myths and esoteric mysteries of ancient cultures. On discovering the many synchronicities with what I had personally experienced, I became resolute to fulfil my calling.