Me, The Handless Maiden and Mental Illness (part 1)

Self Conscious Mystic

I set the context of my mystical podcast, explaining first of all that psychosis is disturbing and profoundly challenging... The Handless Maiden is haunted, traumatised and disabled... In her story, this extreme vulnerability brings her close to God/ Spirit... This is the first part of her tale... An old fairytale which begins with The Devil... This fairytale appeared in my delusions and also in a dream. .. I wasn't thinking about the story, but I 100% believed that my hands were about to be chopped off... As a transpersonal therapist, the story details of our delusions can be relevant not to our psychology but to our deeper soul story... And delusions can cast us along storylines from other times and other lives... The Handless Maiden represents a woman with no grasp on reality who is homeless and walking with spirit until the King sees her and claims her...

We will see in part 2 how he does that... This has been my journey as I have spent many, many long nights wandering the streets alone in psychosis, experiencing terror as well as mystical happenings, before being claimed by the authorities... I am told it is likely to happen again, however I'm currently thankfully stable and able to make this video podcast, to share some non-ordinary experiences...

If you are interested in old stories I'm writing a book about a woman in Irish myth called Li Ban who is a mermaid... If you would like to know when it is released there is a box on my website where you can enter your email address (this is not a newsletter) go to www.catherinehatt.com Music is 'Easy' by Catherine Hatt