River Lethe – The Source of Incarnation – Transformation and Rebirth

 River Lethe – The Source of Incarnation – Transformation and Rebirth

 

Successful Psychodynamic Psychotherapy produces this effect.

 

 In my own Life, I have gone down to the River Lethe on two occasions.  She is the final river in the five rivers of Hell, of the dark underworld, that you must cross to return to the Elysium Fields. The land of Rebirth, by a washing always of your sins.

  To end all the pain, and suffering of this Life, you must give up all your memories of your previous loves and sorrows. The cost is the time spent in her, drinking the water of her Oblivion.  There is no other way to forget your memories.  It cannot be done on your own. 

 She alone is the River of Forgetfulness. On the other side is your deliverance, finally released from your Hell. You emerge from her waters into the Light. She is at the threshold of the two worlds.

Memories are what binds us to the past. To forget all the nightmares and your greatest fears, you must also forget all the good memories, your first loves. 

 “Lethe stopped talking and poured something from her hand into the river.”

Even though we forget some things, it does not mean we won't repeat those things we hope to forget. There are those that are so burdened by their memories that they try on their own to forget and lose their way instead.

“The only true way to forget is to cross the river Lethe."

“I thought she was unaware of my presence until I recognized her words were about my own Life. She turned and looked at me, ‘You have a choice, cross the river and forget everything, or continue as you are, slowly going mad, carrying the pain of your memories."

“I stood on my rock at the water’s edge when I suddenly became aware of some ancient thirst I possessed for its water.  Something extraordinary and illuminating seemed imminent.  Did I want to remember? Did I want to cross the river and forget my pain, my sorrow, my hate, the anger, and my loved ones? I hadn't realized I was moving toward the river until the last thought had crystallized. My Beloved, a flash of blue eyes looking at me with love caused me to drop to one knee. The pain in the heart was greater than any other pain I'd felt.”

“I   awoke without any memory of myself. My future was a blank. I now had the power to draw the Life I always wanted”

 

Notes - Lethe is the river of Forgetfulness and the final river the soul crosses before it returns to the upper world to be reborn. The Greeks believed in metempsychosis, the transmigration or reincarnation of souls. The Lethe souls were cleaned depending on the length of time spent in the waters of Lethe. The more time spent in the water, the more the soul forgets its previous Life.

In the heart of Hades, Lethe, the river of Forgetfulness, flows through the Elysian Fields. Memories cannot be destroyed, merely swept to another place. The pool of all of your forgotten joys and sorrows are in ‘Lethe’s Dream.’

This Rebirth wipes away all memories, a clean slate, so to speak, to allow all of our consciousness powers to focus on the present moment, our present context, and not all the ‘ghosts of the past’ or our ‘burdened memories.’

One of the five rivers of Hades. Souls on the way to Elysium passed through it, washing away their memories, hence their sorrows, as a condition of their new Life.

The River Lethe is the last river that Virgil and Dante cross, the river of Forgetfulness, back to Earth. They emerge from Hell on Easter morning just before sunrise.

To drink from the River Lethe is to be Reborn. It is the boundary between the Underworld / Hades and Elysium, the Land of Paradise of the Greek Deities and Heroes. Hercules used the water from the Lethe to defeat Typhon

March 21, 2018 – Wallace Howe

 

 

 

 

 

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