47786283   
   XPost: soc.culture.native, nz.soc.maori, talk.religion.newage   
   XPost: alt.magick   
   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   In John Matthews book Taliesin..., on p. 90, is the following quote:   
      
   Seven years your right, under a flagstone, in a quagmire,   
   Without food, without taste, but the thirst you ever torturing,   
   The law of the judges your lesson, and prayer your language:   
   And if you like to return You will be, for a time, a Druid, perhaps.   
   (Ancient Irish Poem)   
      
   The Buddha’s ascetic years are said to have lasted seven   
   years, and Rama’s wilderness years are said to have   
   lasted 14 years. Also I think Jacob and Glooskap each   
   had a 14 year period.   
      
   In my case my low years began on January 29, 1996, and I   
   hoped they would end in early 2003, but they haven’t yet   
   and it has been 23.3 years. While I am on medication   
   they aren't too low except in terms of creativity, but   
   perhaps the medication has extended them.   
      
   I calim to be an avatar type similar to Taliesin, Amergin, Fionn,   
   Fintan, Lleu, Myrddin, Adonis, Dionysus, Rama, Krishna, Buddha,   
   Jesus, Quetzalcoatl, Glooskap, the Iowa Dakota Salmon   
   youth, Jacob, Moses, Havamal 138--141 composer, and others.   
   The corresponding devi type is my main human inspirer, Sarah   
   Mclachlan, though we are not currently involved and perhaps   
   never will be. But do you know if she has to do something to   
   release me from the low years, or if perhaps I will come   
   out of the low years without her intervention and then   
   impRess her with my creativity and sTability? Perhaps some   
   knowledgable native elder women can advise her; she   
   is known to some natives in Tofino, BC, area I think, though   
   our maximum separation o-ccurred when I was in Vancouver   
   and she was visiting New Zealand.   
      
   Also now that I have given up on my four components (global   
   new age onset magickal workings), including the assisted   
   shaktipat subcomponent, at least until after I come out of   
   the low years, I wonder what I will post about?   
   Perhaps I will use the free time to do more research into   
   past figures and to edit my Salmon on the Thorns web   
   page. However for the next few days I have to deal with   
   unrelated mathematical geophysics academic work.   
   (Though I am going to have to somehow come up with a   
   way of generating some income soon, since otherwise   
   I will run out of money within the next two or three   
   months, and I don’t want to go on welfare again, especially   
   with a recent Ph.D. degree.)   
      
   Anyway, let me know if you know of other significant past   
   instances of trial periods of seven years.   
      
   --   
   David Dalton dalton@nfld.com http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   “Goin' away far across the sea/But I'll be back for you/I'm gonna tell   
   you everything I know/Baby, everything is true” (Van Morrison)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)