Kate Bush has a song called 'A Coral Room'
It's so beautiful, so personal, that you almost feel like you are 'intruding' by listening.
Today, through a very intense experience, I finally discovered its meaning.
The 'city draped in net' is the collective unconcious. All the experiences, memories, hurt, pain, dissapointments, hopes, desires that are floating underneath the surface of our concious mind.
Our concious mind is our self identity, as reflected by our five most easily accessed senses. It is represented in the song by a boat, gliding over a river.
When an experience is so difficult for us to process, or the hurt is too painful to deal with, or understand, we push it down, underneath the water.
We feel better, on the surface. But we haven't expressed that fear, that hurt, that pain, so it turns into a knot. A knot that twists inside us, causes negativity, anxiety, stress. The thing is we don't even realise the knot exists, until it is released, when we put our hands over the side of the boat.
'Put your hand over the side of the boat.
What do you feel?'
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