Virginia Woolf Spiritual Guide

Virginia Woolf Spiritual Guide

I first heard of Virginia Woolf when I was at school. She was a writer that always interested me from a young age. Later in my life I had a sad encounter while sitting in an art gallery and looking at one of my paintings. I suddenly saw her within the layers of paint. The experience upset me greatly because it depicted her demise as she walked into The River Ouse and drowned. Virginia has a presence in my life that I cherish greatly. I hope one day to write a book about the whole experience which has been truly remarkable. In Summer 2008 I had the opportunity to re-read Orlando which was first published in 1928. It tells the story of a young man named Orlando, born in England during the reign of Elizabeth I, who decides not to grow old. He does not, and he passes through the ages as a young man … until he wakes up one morning to find that he has metamorphosed into a woman – the same person, with the same personality and intellect, but in a woman’s body. The remaining centuries up to the time the book was written are seen through a woman’s eyes. While re- reading the book I suddenly became aware of Virginia’s state of mind and the difficulties she experienced in her life. I sat down and wrote for two hours. I felt like I had been in a trance and realised later that I had my first experience of automatic writing.
In my writings she explained the difficulties that she had experienced throughout her life. The insurmountable problems she not only felt but could also hear. Today I know that Virginia had Spiritual guides who were trying to communicate with her as she was a Sensitive. However times were difficult when she was alive and she thought she was going mad. There was no one she could confide in because she feared the worst.
I have been very fortunate to have a wonderful mentor and friend who guides me on my path of Spiritual discovery and therefore I don’t feel isolated or alone.
I end this dedication in Virginia’s own words, which she left Leonard on the 28th March 1941:
I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can’t go through another of those terrible times. And I shan’t recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can’t concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don’t think two people could have been happier ‘til this terrible disease came. I can’t fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can’t even write this properly. I can’t read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that — everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can’t go on spoiling your life any longer. I don’t think two people could have been happier than we have been. V.
I dedicate this work to Virginia Woolf my cherished Spiritual Guide and friend.

Music – Breakaway – Kelly Clarkson

10th January 2009

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