March 22, 2000
Psychic tornado
age: 14
gender: male
Okay, I am 14 yrs old. I have always felt that I was different to others around me. Don't get me wrong, I do have friends and I pretty much appear to be a normal 14 year old guy. But lately (for about 6 months) I have been feeling something weird inside my head. I know what you are thinking: puberty. wrong. been there, done that. You may think I am just a stupid, crazy little kid, but I feel that I may be psychic in some way, shape, or form. I often know the exact words people are going to say, and I can sometimes feel what events are going to happen. I said that I felt something weird inside my head. What I mean is that I feel kind of powerful, like I could do things. But then I am lost. What could I possibly do? I have often felt a leaning towards telekinesis, but that doesn't work either. Or not the way I've tried it. By the way, does telekinesis exist, and can anyone do it?
Lately, I have been quite interested in the psychic, magick and all that kind of stuff. I have tried a few things, but to no avail. I really feel that there is something powerful inside me but I have to unlock and use it myself. Can you help me? Is there anything special about me (psychically) and if so how can I learn about it and maybe learn to use it? Don't get me wrong though, I don't just want to "use" this thing (whatever it may or may not be) for fun, I would like to uncover its purpose and see what I have to do. Please help me. I have absolutely no idea what this is or what to do about it.
Thanks for your time.
age: 14
gender: male
I dreamed I was living in a large house in the country with a few of my not-so-close friends. I'm not sure but I think my mother may have been there. Out the window I saw a big, black tornado coming slowly towards the house. (there was a small country town in the way of the house.)
I told my friends that we must get out of the house quickly. So we all got changed quickly. I accidentally walked in on one of my friends while they were changing. I closed the door but she opened it and said it's okay. When I saw her naked she had a baby's figure (meaning her body had no definition; it was completely flat) She is quite short and little in real life. After that, we all packed some stuff in bags and ran out the back door. behind the house there were a few gum trees. We hid around them. These gum trees remind me distinctly of some trees that were out the back of my primary school. I'm not sure what happened then, but I remember looking out the house window again at a clear sky. The tornado had gone. Outside again, we still had our bags with stuff in them. We were talking about how lucky we were that the tornado had gone. Then I saw another tornado. This one was thin and a light colour. It was moving at a really fast speed towards us. Here I am quite sure I heard my mother say this: "Yes, that is a little bit of a tornado". After that I'm not sure what the others did but I tried to run away from the tornado. I think it curved. It ran almost directly into me. I got sucked up into it. I heard the others yelling out to me. That was the end of the dream. I also think it was raining for most if not all of the dream.
This is an example of the fact that our dreams tell us so much more than we might consciously realize. The querent submitted both a dream and a question separately and I felt that while a simple answer to the question might be appropriate... adding the dream illustrates the difficult fact that only your own Psyche is capable of faithfully answering your most important questions...as this certainly is.
In response to the question it is easy to point out that teens are particularly tuned into the collective unconscious...and are therefore extremely sensitive intuitives if they wish to pursue this path. The obvious reason is the tremendous psychological and physiological change that takes place for them and to them. Cultures that we might call Primal or Primitive have a tremendous respect for all such periods in the life of a human being and have a rich and powerful array of rituals and initiatory rites to facilitate all such dangerous passages through life. The Teen passage being one of the most difficult, tumultuous and dangerous. Our culture is distinctly less rich in that regard.
There IS something powerful going on in the life of this young man...and he is more sensitively tuned into it than many others. A tremendous danger lies in the fact that there are so few knowledgeable ritual elders to see him through this particular passage of his life. The usual rites of passage are quite possibly inadequate to deal with his very particular...but not completely unique needs. In more enlightened cultures he might become a shaman or medicine man...but those professions are not without their dangers and exact a very high price from the life of the individual. In our culture, magick on the one hand is simply not the best (or safest) of venues...and on the other hand the practice of medicine will surely try to divest this young man of all traces of the spiritual realm with which he is now faced.
The dream clearly illustrates a particular aspect of the problem. The two tornadoes graphically and viscerally represent the power of the unconscious where both black and white magic coexist. Avoiding one and being taken up by the other is not always the best outcome. One can be torn to pieces by the light tornado just as easily as the dark. My feeling about the young girl is that she represents the state of the dreamer's soul. Some souls are very young...and others are apparently old. Our dreamer is gifted with a certain amount of innocence...but also with a certain, completely natural immaturity. An elder is needed! Mother is apparently the only one in sight and is aware of the tornado. Here is where further dreams and insight are necessary. Is her assessment that it is a little bit of tornado enough to reassure us that the danger is also just "a little bit?" I cannot say...but believe that it might be. Dreams are very much like pearls in that a certain number of them are required to create a necklace. Sometimes the only way to understand and use a dream is if it forms part of such a necklace or series. Without such a valuable piece of psychic jewelry...provided the dreamer remains grounded in reality and listens to his intuitive voice with a healthy, mature attitude...the chances of a healthy, powerful and maturing encounter with life are very good. Dorothy found the 3 helpers she needed after her encounter with the tornado by following the yellow brick road (pointed out by the equivalent of the Cabiri or Dactyls). I'd simply like to remind the dreamer that those 3 characters represent Wisdom, Courage and Compassion. If no Elders are available...the dreamer can always learn to judge what he picks up through the lens of those particular inner helpers.
kristo