Portal

    „Portal "

  40 x 30 cm

Oil on Canvas

" The eye, when it opens, is like the dawn breaking in the night...A new World is there."

 

Everything that ever was, is or will be,

exists right now in a great amalgam of past, present and future.

Everything is in the present.

The realm of the Sidhe is essentially located everywhere. It is above, within and belowthe physical world which humans inhabit. The physical part of the Otherworld overlaps with this world, and there are many places on the Earthwhere the coexistence of the two worlds can be felt. Because the Otherworld has a  physical aspect, it is possible to go there while still in physical incarnation.

" Otherworld ", as a word, represents non-physical realms which interlock with this world, but which are not obvious to the physical senses. They can be "felt" in a different way, a unique and more obscure way, through opening inner subtle, etheral senses.

 In the Sidhe Realm, the regular flow of time simply does not exist as mortals know it. In Fairy and Celtic tradition Time just is. There is no beginning and no end. All that was, is, or ever shall be, is right here, right now...But there are many coexisting planes. These sacred places of the Sidhe cannot be "found" in the sense humans understand that word to mean in mortal world. They are more a state of being than a physical location. It is crucially important to fully understand the true nature of that which one seeks.

 To find these entrances and portals to  Other Worlds one needs to be able to observe subtle vibrations and etheral signs which appear and emerge for those who know where to seek.
To travel, one must be truly awake.
When the essence is awaken, physical space can be transfigured.
When travel begins, you can never fully go back : one part of the essence forever stays there.
Traveling between Worlds changes you,
and nothing is ever the same.
Once there, you are inflamed with eternal longing,
which will never leave you, if, and when you return.

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 Bibliography :

S.Blamires, W.Y.Evans Wentz, R.Kirk, W.B.Yeats, M.Green, John O`Donohue,

Lady A. Gregory, C. Squire, A. & B. Rees, Cross & Slover, T.C.Crocker, Sacred texts library