Shiftkitty
Registered User
My Sister-In-Law had what I believe to be a bad PL experience some years ago. I hadn't thought about this incident for awhile, but something in the thread about photos made me think of it:
I used to have a deck of cards that had various symbols and images that were supposed to be helpful in meditating on PLs. While I was strongly (and peacefully) drawn to one with an image of an African mask, she looked at the deck and just froze while looking at an image of a figure of a hand sticking out of the ground. (I'm not sure what the hand was. I've seen it several times in images dealing with Wiccan amulets and symbols but can't recall at the moment what it's called.) She genuinely looked disturbed, so I dropped my meditation and asked her if she was all right. She looked almost on the verge of a panic attack! I got her some water and took the card away, which calmed her down. I asked if she felt comfortable talking about what she felt and she was.
She did not see the hand as a symbol of witchcraft, magic, or anything. She saw the hand as desperately reaching upwards, trying to get someone's, anyone's, attention. I asked her for what, and she closed her eyes and started to get tense, breathing hard. I was afraid she had inadvertently hypnotized herself, and I kept speaking to her, telling her she was still in my apartment.
She finally anchored herself and told of a person who was sick and lapsed into a state of near death. This person had been buried by mistake and came to inside her own coffin. She screamed, cried, and clawed desperately at the lid of the coffin, but to no avail. She died there in her own premature grave.
After finishing the tale, she opened her eyes and asked me to open a window. When the breeze hit her, she relaxed. She told me that two of her deepest fears are small, enclosed spaces and suffocation.
Can't say I blame her!
I used to have a deck of cards that had various symbols and images that were supposed to be helpful in meditating on PLs. While I was strongly (and peacefully) drawn to one with an image of an African mask, she looked at the deck and just froze while looking at an image of a figure of a hand sticking out of the ground. (I'm not sure what the hand was. I've seen it several times in images dealing with Wiccan amulets and symbols but can't recall at the moment what it's called.) She genuinely looked disturbed, so I dropped my meditation and asked her if she was all right. She looked almost on the verge of a panic attack! I got her some water and took the card away, which calmed her down. I asked if she felt comfortable talking about what she felt and she was.
She did not see the hand as a symbol of witchcraft, magic, or anything. She saw the hand as desperately reaching upwards, trying to get someone's, anyone's, attention. I asked her for what, and she closed her eyes and started to get tense, breathing hard. I was afraid she had inadvertently hypnotized herself, and I kept speaking to her, telling her she was still in my apartment.
She finally anchored herself and told of a person who was sick and lapsed into a state of near death. This person had been buried by mistake and came to inside her own coffin. She screamed, cried, and clawed desperately at the lid of the coffin, but to no avail. She died there in her own premature grave.
After finishing the tale, she opened her eyes and asked me to open a window. When the breeze hit her, she relaxed. She told me that two of her deepest fears are small, enclosed spaces and suffocation.
Can't say I blame her!
