A Katabasis to the Underworld to Meet the goddess Persephone

It’s around 5am and I’m alone in the house. Lying on my side in bed I feel the subtle energy vibrations come in delicate waves, first gentle like a whisper from the Soul and then building up in waves. When they’ve reached a sufficient peak, like a large wave that will run high up the shore, I start to roll out of my physical body. But as I roll to my side, I feel I meet the barrier of the wall. I know to test and persuade myself I can roll through by pushing the wall with my non-physical finger. I do so and pushing through, I roll out of my physical body and through the wall.

​I am now in sacred darkness and I express the intention “May I visit the underworld for healing and grounding” As I began to descend, I also express the intention “And may I visit Persephone”. For those that may not know in living Greek spiritual myth Persephone is the Queen of the Underworld, spending the dark part of the year down in the Underworld among the dead and the light half among mortals on Earth.  
I descend and descend, free falling down through the abyss of inner space. It is hard to describe the sensation… I feel no fear and it’s not eerie. Its like free falling in darkness. I feel the sounds of wind and the resistance and rush of the air around me. I am travelling at great speed further and further down. It feels warm like the comforting warmth of the inner earth. I move my energy body around as I fall.

After a long journey I find myself lying on a non-physical bed on my back. I feel sensations begin to move over my energy body. It swells and moves and there are buoyant waves sensations with a feeling of tender sea shells spreading over my body. The sensations are pleasant and I feel and know I am receiving healing. After a while my energy body begins to slowly rotate first one way and then the other. Providing some kind of energetic alignment and orientation.

Then I feel a female figure climb on top of me, and as she then lays by my side I see a beautiful face of a women with pale blue lunar like eyes. She starts to get up and her face is exquisitely beautiful. A young Greek looking young women with natural tanned skin, large eyes, full lips and high cheek bones. Perhaps she sensed I was focussing too much on her beauty and she begins to change her form to an older lady around her mid-forties with the lines of a richly lived life on her face.

From the corner of the room I am in, I hear a very high-pitched women’s voice to my left proclaim “I” which startles me and I almost come back to my physical body, before slipping into another scene where I am in a very large banquet Hall and an elegant, slim, tall middle women aged is with me wearing a red dress.

She is very tall and at one point during the experience as I focus on this, she seems to get even taller to around 7 feet, towering above me. She wore a red dress with what looked like red flowers and pomegranate berries on. We talked about many things, with fiery compassion she seems concerned to give me guidance concerning my work, how it is better to focus on and honour one thing. And we talked at length. To one of my questions about how to cultivate abundance her only response was to fall back into a banquet scene where there were suddenly dozens of people joyfully sitting eating around the table being served food. The huge wooden table was plentifully laid with things like roasted vegetables and plates of feta cheese.

​As she sat there with them with her arm around one, she smiled with such soulfulness and she was truly with them in supportive love. The message seemed to be to perhaps ask me to feel and cultivate abundance by encouraging a feeling of love, sociability, togetherness and community among people.