In the bible there is a story of a reluctant prophet, who refused his divine mission that was giving to him by God…his name was Jonah. Instead Jonah went on a sea voyage and God had him swallowed up by a whale. Now if you literally believe this shit, stop reading now and go to bed. Lets dig deeper and find a metaphysical understanding to this mystery. First why would God do this foul shit anyway? This all loving God is going to make Jonah do some shit that he doesn’t want to do. God is going to force you, break you, until to submit and accept him and his request, read that shit again and tell me what that sounds like…shit sounds like rape! But Satan is the bad guy?
Anyway, back to the story, so during the sea voyage he gets swallowed by a whale and stays in the belly of the whale for 3 days, now under the influence of the blue pill, many of us never questioned this due to the tentacles of religion. But we are becoming illuminated beings now, so we cant think as we did yesterday. Like this fictional character Jonah, we all have a destiny, but no one is to force you to fullfill that destiny. That is exclusively your cross to bear. But when an individual does find what she/he was produced for and fullfills that purpose, they leave a heavy foot print on the Earth. But there is no space ghost that will punish you for your own failure, we do that to ourselves!
So since the story of Jonah cant be a literal one, lets delve down the rabbit hole. The water that surrounds the whale represents the consciousness and the whale represents the Ego and or insecurities. The shallow waters of SELF is the Ego and insecurities, however, there are some depths into our consciousness that many of us fail to delve into the deep waters to see what lurks there. Like the whale, when the ego comes up for air {and that all it is…air} there is no substance. The whale has to come up occasionally for air in order to survive, we believe that we have to showcase our ego for our survival.
Unlike many fish, the whale can go to great depths, where it sees unusual creatures. This again represents the great subconscious, the deeper you go like the whale you encounter more unusual experiences. Jonah was in the belly for 3 days, this represents knowledge, wisdom, and understanding, the 3 components for enlightenment! The knowledge is the exposure to a thing, the application is the wisdom, and finally after we get exposed to something, then apply it, we get the UNDERSTANDING! The 3 days also represents the triple darkness of the womb. The Black woman represents the SEA, her womb represents the Whale, and the child represents Jonah.
Finally, the whale coughs Jonah up on the shore, just like coming out of the womb, when it is your time to fullfill your destiny, the Universe will give you up to the elements. No more time to keep you hidden and protected, you must now go for SELF from what you have learned in the triple darkness. When the whale coughed him up, he is touching water and land, the Water represents his spiritual experience and the Land represents his Body. They are ONE and now communicate, the mind and body touch and are ONE! This is the whole purpose of SELF ILLUMINATION and knowledge of SELF, for the MIND AND BODY to touch, to communicate. But we must be swallowed up by the vicsissitudes of life until the Universe is ready to birth us to our new reality. I pray that the Ancestors helped me facilitate a better and deeper understanding of the Jonah and the Whale story. ASE’ ASE’ ASE’