Yesterday my 5 year old grandson and I were out hiking, we were going to climb the highest mountain in a nearby nature reserve. After a while, he started jumping between rocks and roots as all children do. But then he starts calling all the roots the root snake. When I asked him what it is, he spontaneously said; ”It’s the world snake!”. Afterwards, I could not help but to think of the midgard serpent and yggdrasil. The Aboriginal rainbow snake, and the kundalini serpent. These where the ones that came into my mind. After some thought, I came to think of his development. The roots of our psychic tree. The integrity of a personal content there and of its relation to his experience of a psychic totality. Of its support to him, and how to act for its emotional and physical protection of him. I was thinking about the snake as the rising insight of our impulses, that something similar has been awaken in him. Like our instincts that rise from the seat upwards via the spine like a snake on an inner tree. Towards a greater certainty, body perception, and an emerging awareness in relation to what this is to us. Was this what was going on on another level within him? Was there a glimpse of this that I got to see? We climbed the mountain and on the way down he shouted loudly, I see it! Come on! We went in the direction he pointed and there it was. A windswept and crooked large pine that meandered up and out of its root system on the mountain. Happy about this, we headed back to the car for the ride home. He did not mention the world snake any more. He knew.
I have no trained knowledge whatsoever about these things. But what I do know is that regardless of our age and background, we try to describe what visually arises within us in words that is often not determined by us. But for him, it is something that is so playfully embedded in his creative reality that his ideas and his reality coincide. The difference I saw between me and him was that my creativity is partly determined by a context that depends on how I adapt it to others. As i should be in an exterior sense. Because that is what psychic maturity means. But I also don’t think that right now, it is possible to find the correct outlet for my psychic totality. I would not have reflected on what he aroused in me through this then.