Repressed Memories & Shamans View of The Underworld

I love irony. Irony is the reason why I was captivated by the character Hannibal Lecter in the movie “Silence of the Lambs.” He was a brilliant psychiatrist, who also happened to be a violent psychopath serving a life sentence in prison. He committed murders do to his insatiable appetite for human flesh. He was brilliant and also incredibly manipulative. He was able to dismantle the workings of the inner mind, skillfully digging into the human psyche like it was a tenderized piece of meat.

Dr. Lecter was deeply enthralled by the human mind, because he understood what was hidden in there, our deepest fears and darkest desires. Many of the scenes in the movie take place in a dimly lit cell, with the character’s faces moving in and out of shadows, just as we move in and out of consciousness. We create a dimly lit cell in the dark recesses of our minds. In it, we have a depository of all of our repressed thoughts and emotions.

Ironically, these areas of the human psyche were developed to help people become more aware of their problems. The shamans called this area the underworld. We visit this world when we have terrible dreams or nightmares. We visit this world when we re experience the trauma and painful memories of our past. Shamans would help people heal by visiting these worlds in dream like states. They also visited these worlds to set intentions and to help people manifest and not repress their desires.

Ironically, the more we evolved, the more we began to repress these desires. Today, instead of the dream state being a haven for visualization and manifestation. It is a prison cell. It is a dark place where people express their freakish and perverted desires. Besides, in the dream world, people can behave any way they like. It has become the fantasy world, a place of escapism. In this place, there are no judgments or repercussions. However, there is one small problem.

The dream world is incredibly powerful. In the dream world, we use much more of the brain than in waking life. Also, our intentions are not set in the physical world. Our intentions are set at a much higher level of consciousness. Just think about it. We have to solve our problems and set our intentions from a different “reality” where they physical rules don’t apply. This reality is the dream like state. So what happens?

Our repressed desires seep out from the dream state into the physical world. This is when the physical world and the dream world merge. People are no longer able to separate the two. So they become these “freaks of nature.” They become the people who wear restraint mask with a matching jacket. They become the people who need to be rolled around on a man made dolly. They become the perverts, the pedophiles, and the murderers. They become like the sick perverted thoughts that are trapped in the mind. They become cannibals who eat on human flesh.