Thank you for this, Jan. Illuminating and funny too (knocking on Herod’s door)! My epiphany - literally - was realizing that I wanted to write. Be A Writer. It happened to me when I was on an acupuncturist’s table simulating a pin cushion. Did not expect that going in. But it was, as you say, only the beginning. No magic wand. The road from there was (and still is) hard, scary, exhilarating, unsettling, and confirming. With lots of shitty first drafts without which there would be no final versions. My epiphany was like a trail head: “Start here, and I promise you the journey will be worth it.”
Claudia, I love the metaphor of an epiphany as a trail head!! That's perfect.
As for yours occurring when you were being stuck by needles... funny! And, also, not terribly surprising. Often we need to be outside of our normal selves for insight to appear. One of my biggest epiphanies happened on a massage table and then it was a very embodied epiphany - I physically felt the knowing - quite amazing. Plus there is also something to places in the body acting as openings to wisdom.
Thanks so much for commenting. And, I'm glad you're a writer!
Thank you for this, Jan. Illuminating and funny too (knocking on Herod’s door)! My epiphany - literally - was realizing that I wanted to write. Be A Writer. It happened to me when I was on an acupuncturist’s table simulating a pin cushion. Did not expect that going in. But it was, as you say, only the beginning. No magic wand. The road from there was (and still is) hard, scary, exhilarating, unsettling, and confirming. With lots of shitty first drafts without which there would be no final versions. My epiphany was like a trail head: “Start here, and I promise you the journey will be worth it.”
Claudia, I love the metaphor of an epiphany as a trail head!! That's perfect.
As for yours occurring when you were being stuck by needles... funny! And, also, not terribly surprising. Often we need to be outside of our normal selves for insight to appear. One of my biggest epiphanies happened on a massage table and then it was a very embodied epiphany - I physically felt the knowing - quite amazing. Plus there is also something to places in the body acting as openings to wisdom.
Thanks so much for commenting. And, I'm glad you're a writer!
Our bodies hold so much consciousness (and history too).
YES!!!
Epiphany:
"the Magi saw the star and it still took them twelve to fifteen months for it to lead them to Jesus."
It seems to me that time as an ally to our epiphanies if only we allow it.
time as an ally - what a wonderful way to think of it! Thank you!