Enya is Impacting Upon My Consciousness and it is Very Weird Indeed.
Is Enya and Her Music Something Akin to a Quantum Musical Tardis?
Something very peculiar is happening with me on a deep conscious - if not subconscious - level and it has come from the most surprising place; an Enya song. Back in the day when Caribbean Blue was released I really didn’t pay it much attention. I found it nice enough and could certainly see the appeal of her music even if it was not to my taste at the time. Yet the song, along with some of her other musical output, seemed to cover the world during that period. Not merely in terms of being popular, but her songs absolutely entrenched themselves into the mood and feelings of the mid-1990s. In a most profound way, that only now we are starting to realize.
Then, following the mid-90s, that was that, and ‘life’ (as a whole) moved on in mostly all the wrong directions following September 11, 2001.
Enya had vanished from my consciousness until a few weeks ago. When a remarkable experience happened. I was shopping in a local supermarket when Carribeen Blue came on the store’s music system and I can only describe what happened next as a supernatural experience. Hearing the song did not merely evoke feelings of nostalgia. Of places, people, and times. I was literally transported back to when the song was everywhere and every sensation, emotion, and even taste of the era came flooding back. However, it was even much more than this. It was incredibly emotional to the point I had to hold back the tears until I got home. It takes a lot to make me cry, but hearing this song after all these years was like a damn burst. Yet I had not idea at the time why this occurred.
What makes this even more strange is that the period Enya released Caribbean Blue was not a particularly intense or amazing period in my life. In terms of how I have lived my life, it was something of a mundane, matter-of-fact period, yet it is now saturated with cascading emotions whenever I hear this song.
Listen to her sing this song now, with the evocative tones and haunting synth sounds, not to mention her otherworldly vocals, has made me realize something has happened in the world since then and now, and this gut-wrenching extreme nostalgia and hauntological sense of profound loss for that time makes it certainly feel this way.
Those of you who have been following my work over the years know that I theorize that something happened within human consciousness on 9-11, and which created a rip in the space-time fabric. Massively altering human consciousness while also creating a new quantum wave function which seems to be collapsing since 2020. Added to this, the field of Quantum Retrocausality - taking center stage with the winning of the Nobel Prize - and the experience I felt listening to Enya’s song (and her other music from that period since) can literally turn on this sensation of extreme nostalgia, and melancholia and hauntological sense of loss like a switch. Going way beyond the feeling one gets when a certain song triggers a memory. This is something altogether more profound and more real. It is not a memory. It is an experiential moment. Transcendental.
Enya appears to be something of a quantum link between the pre-9-11 reality and where we ended up. We appear to be finding our way out of the miasma and coming back home. One Enya song at a time.
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Pagan Anarchist Thomas Sheridan is an Author, Artist, Film Maker, and Satirist who has spent a life from Wall Street to the Jungles of South Asia attempting to discover the emerging—often elusive—mythology of modern humans within the present technology-saturated era. Heavily inspired by the work of Carl Jung, Bruno Bettelheim, and Joseph Campbell, Thomas Sheridan has developed ‘Monomythic’ tool kits—which draw upon all the mythologies of the world. So as to demonstrate that on a personal and collective level; these legends and stories contain within them a subconscious lexicon of wisdom and symbols that can help all of us overcome the personal and greater challenges we encounter in everyday life. By not giving birth and nurturing these timeless archetypes within us all, modern humans are at a loss when it comes to achieving personal and social Individuation. Or a rounding out of one’s purpose in life. Their dharma. Their Monomyth. Inside all of us resides a wizard, a warrior, a bard, and a knight and by tapping into the power of these archetypes one can have a more fulfilling and creative life. Every challenge a quest. Every situation a saga. Every moment is an adventure.
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Someone shared a YouTube video of a German-made documentary about Clannad from 1981- like a different world, with the band ,including a teenage Enya ,travelling the country to concerts in a beat up van. I found myself listening to really early Clannad songs, for days afterwards, throwing me back to when I was a child in the 70s , hearing 'Philib a Cheoil' on RTE Radio 1.
Remember the song as a seven-year old growing up in early 1990's. The video is enchanting too and does make the hairs stand up at certain times!