ABSTRACT

Thunder, Perfect Mind is a poetic text from the Nag Hammadi Scriptures where a divine feminine figure introduces herself in dramatic opposites. In this chapter, I explore my experience of relating to this text wherein Thunder escapes and breaks the objective, rational mind. Relating to Thunder may very well be entering a field of transformation and fostering a relationship with the self with an enlargement of consciousness through an experience of the sublime. The experience of being with Thunder, a powerful archetypal image of the feminine divine, is an experience of allowing the psyche to be stirred through the activation of the transcendent function and the release of psychic libido, an experience of being drawn to the fertile land of the sublime, the land of the collective unconscious, an undifferentiated prima materia rich of possibilities.