Thank you, Jean-Phillipe, for such encouraging words. For myself, I would say Persephone is a divine name that has guided me on underworld journeys, which can be terrifying and healing, as you say.
It is very suggestive that you used the term ‘hell’ instead of ‘underworld’. Such underworld journeys can certainly be hellish; and all the more reason we need guides. But I also believe that they need not be so. I might cite Simone Weil, who wrote in a philosophical, mystical and Catholic milieu (Gravity and Grace). For her, “de-creation” is an unforming of the self, so as to better meet the divine. I weave that notion into my interpretation of Persephone’s mysteries. Perhaps the soul needs to un-form (as a kind of death) so as to better heal and re-form again, thus returning to this life (or next life) again as from winter into spring.
I imagine we are weaving kin threads of the same mystery. THank you again.
Thank you, Jean-Phillipe, for such encouraging words. For myself, I would say Persephone is a divine name that has guided me on underworld journeys, which can be terrifying and healing, as you say.
It is very suggestive that you used the term ‘hell’ instead of ‘underworld’. Such underworld journeys can certainly be hellish; and all the more reason we need guides. But I also believe that they need not be so. I might cite Simone Weil, who wrote in a philosophical, mystical and Catholic milieu (Gravity and Grace). For her, “de-creation” is an unforming of the self, so as to better meet the divine. I weave that notion into my interpretation of Persephone’s mysteries. Perhaps the soul needs to un-form (as a kind of death) so as to better heal and re-form again, thus returning to this life (or next life) again as from winter into spring.
I imagine we are weaving kin threads of the same mystery. THank you again.
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