In ancient myths the symbolism of the Owl is often entwined with the feminine (Anima) principle, such as Witches and the practice of Witchcraft. For example, the Queen of (Succubi) Succubae called Lilith in Hebrew lore, who is very much associated with the (Lilitu) Owl.
Lilith represents the experience of the Old-Hag-Syndrome or otherwise called the Bedroom Invader Experience, which is experienced when inadvertently accessing hypnagogic trance at the point of sleep.
This experience is known of by many other cultures, which utilise similar symbolism to describe it. When accessing hypnagogic trance, it then leads to conscious ingress into the dream, wherein Lilith manifests as a three-dimensional interactive reality.
Hence, the Owl has held been revered as well as feared throughout human history. Owls have since become associated with alien abduction experiences. The experience of alien abductions often occur when an individual inadvertently experiences hypnagogic (phase) trance, which as mentioned is associated with Lilith.
Hypnagogic trance is consciously induced by shamans, which is termed as being the little death by occultists. The hypnagogic state involves the experience of sleep-paralysis, which gave rise to the term nightmare, since an individual who inadvertently experiences this altered state of consciousness will often experience terrifying visions.
Although, when an individual overcomes his or her fear of the assailing nightmare he/she can then consciously ride the Mare of the Night wherever he/she wills to travel without moving within his/her lucid dreams.
A heterosexual male practitioner can transmute the nightmare into an erotic experience; hence the term Night-Mare and its association with Lilith, who is seen to be a Succubus archetype of the Fallen Anima. (Those of other sexual orientations will reverse the symbolism as required.)
Lilith is associated with the Tarot card of the High Priestess Of The Silver Star II, whose priestess symbolism can be otherwise equated with a Nun, which of an associated aside leads us to a tale related by Whitley Strieber in the book, ‘The Super Natural,’ who tells of an unsettling event, which happened to him in 1968.
“That year, I was living in London and attending the London School of Film Technique, now called the London Film School. During the summer break, I decided to travel on the Continent. On an overnight train to Florence, I fell in with a girl.”
“We began traveling together. For a couple of weeks in Florence, we had a lovely time, living together in chaste intimacy. But then we went on to Rome, and when we toured St. Peter’s, she became crazy, stalking through the church in raging silence. She scared me. I was living with her in a small pensione near the railroad station. I decided, ‘No more,’ and headed off to the pensione to collect my suitcase and get out of there.”
“I went into our tiny room, threw my toothbrush into my suitcase, and started to leave. Then I stopped. Her suitcase was lying at the foot of the bed. I have always been a bit too curious, and I opened it. What I saw shocked me to my core. In it was a NUN’s habit and, lying beside it, a dry, flattened OWL carcass. I didn’t get off the train again until I was in Strasbourg.”
“The Owls were gathering,” Strieber concludes, and this is the point of his story. Owls have always been mysteriously intertwined with his experiences of his humanoid alien Greys, he prefers to call, The Visitors.
The Tarot card of The High Priestess/Nun depicts her being seated between two pillars, one is black, the other white. These two pillars represent the two nerve channels of the Autonomic Nervous System, which run along either side of the spine. When these two nerve channels are brought into balance via meditative practices or auto-hypnotism, it then leads to a shamanic practitioner attaining hypnagogic trance, which is symbolically represented as being Grey.
The central pillar is then activated, which represents the central nerve channel running along the centre of the spine. The central nerve channel is associated with the Central Nervous System. Most of the nerve fibres of the Central-Nervous-System are mostly found in the chest area of the lungs. (It is this area of the body, which has the sensation of pressure when experiencing the [Fight-Flight fear-response] Old-Hag-Syndrome.)
When consciously accessing hypnagogic trance, the practitioner is then enabled to experience lucid dream ingress into other realities, which will be determined by his/her beliefs. In other words your beliefs will determine what you tune into. Your beliefs are symbolically represented as the ‘grimoire’ upon the Tarot lap of the High Priestess/Nun. (At the feet of the Tarot High Priestess is a serpent, which represents the reptilian-brain.)
In the Hebrew Cabbala, the Tarot card of The High Priestess/Nun is associated with the 13th path, which is ascribed to the Hebrew letter, Gimel, whose English equivalent is the Freemason focus upon the letter G, which corresponds with the seventh Rune, called Gebo, looking like an X, of Crossbones.
The seventh Rune means self-sacrifice as well as sexual union. The self-sacrifice refers to hypnagogic trance, whose terror can be negated when to introvert the sexual impulse. As mentioned, the hypnagogic state is termed as being the little death; hence you then have the Skull and Crossbones.
The 13th path of The High Priestess passes through the hidden sphere of Da’at, which means, belief. Da’at physiologically equates with the reptilian brain.
The reptilian-brain does not think in words, it thinks in symbols, which is directly connected to the optic nerve.
Wherefore, the reptilian-brain can be easily influenced via symbolic stimuli, such as seeing Strieber’s alien Grey on his Communion book cover, which set off the viral-meme belief in alien Greys.
Prior to Strieber’s description of Grey aliens, there was little or no mention of them. The prior focus was on Nordic aliens just after WWII, when the Roswell incident occurred in 1947, then Asiatic aliens took to the alien stage when the Vietnam war raged. It was only during the Iraq invasion that Strieber’s Grey alien came to the fore, he described looked like the Sumerian sex Goddess, Ishtar. Now it seems as if the Grey’s have always been around of a cultural influence.
The reptilian-brain governs over the depth of hypnagogic trance as well as your dreams, whose microcosmic domain of the collective unconscious is symbolic, which gravitates towards a macrocosmic collective focus, when stirred by the controlled media.
However, there is the distinct possibility that the symbolic material of your electron dreams are parallel processing information, which is emanating from alternate worlds existing within parallel universes.
This doesn’t sound too unbelievable when looking into quantum computers, which make their calculations in parallel universes.
Should you imagine a science fiction scenario where you have an alternate Earth, whether it be of the distant past, present or of the far flung future, having a superior technology, which allows the denizens of an alternate Earth to communicate with other Earth’s via spun electron dreams, let alone being able to physically travel to other worlds in their Vimana UFO’s. Then you would have Strieber being abducted by time-travelling ultraterrestrials.
The morning after his first (Yod) experience, when being abducted through the hypnagogic (He) hymen veil, which had occurred on December 26, 1985, the initial memory of his otherworldly (Vau) encounter was the image of a barn Owl staring at him through his hypnapompic (He) window. (YHVH: Tetragrammaton)
Perhaps the barn Owl was a memory-trigger, which referred back to the woman who he had met long prior, whose secret Nun fetish got him to do a runner on this Earth. But on another Earth, just next door, his alternate self stuck around, who was duly abducted by a Lilith in the ‘Hunger’ flesh, who initiated him into Tantric dream Yoga between her ‘Black Magic’ pylon legs, wherein he ‘Wolfen’ howled.
Who knows, the Strieber of this Earth may have been contacted by his dreaming alternate self, whom eventually got in the Vesica-Pisces sack with a High Priestess Witch of a Silver Star Ishtar coven. And when dream visited, the alternate self sent along all his conjurations of the Fallen Anima, who gathered around the Strieber of this Earth as his Owl eyed Muses bestowing Athena Wisdom.
Should we take this scenario further, the alternate Earth Strieber won over a rebellious Nun when he told her a seventh Rune Magpie Secret in the ‘Night Church’ of St Peter’s, to make as the Grey:
“I will set you free from your feminist wrath, my dear. Although you will not like what I have to reveal. The God you are angry with, is your own deified Animus, made as a God and Devil. You and the Queen Bees of this Earth, women all, have created this patriarchal Matrix of a Beehive down the ages. It is yours to own as your creation, when you see the truth of it. And in knowing the truth, you no longer have to silently rage at all men; for they did not create your gaol. Then you can become as their revealing Anima, of a Sophia incarnate, to otherwise Metis smile as a Wise Owl.”
Then, when leaving ‘Night Church,’ St Peter’s the alternate Strieber hypnotised the Nun with his priestly words. The Nun then experienced ‘Cat-Magic,‘ when synchronicities abound; for when you focus upon certain symbolic stimuli within your microcosmic Triangle Of Art imagination, macrocosmic feed-back-loops of synchronicity will start to manifest. So, you have to careful what you focus upon of a symbol.
The alternate Strieber, being a crafty Svengali Mage, observed whether her synchronicities involved him as his ‘Cat Magic’ Assistant, or not. If so, it would indicate she truly loved him, if not, then off on the train again until he was in Strasbourg. Luckily enough, she loved him as her Mage; just as well, really, if he had got onto the train, the alternate Strieber would have bumped into his ‘Dreamland’ doppelganger, who is not to be seen.
You know the old stories about doppelgangers, meeting your ghostly alternate selves can be far too much of a Chinese box for many; most would promptly give up their ghost, to thence merge with the alternate self. This is very much the case when encountering an alternate self who knows how to walk worlds, whom is a Sorcerer, whose eyes are likened to obsidian scrying mirrors.
Above all the heads of the innumerable Strieber’s occupying the myriad alternate Earth’s a silvery Grey UFO to hover like an Owl, observing all the alternative possibilities, which exist in parallel universes to verily quantum computer Browse.