RUNA: A Personal Mystical Experience

Many years ago when I was a young man of approximately 20 years of age I had a hypnopompic dream or at least I thought that it was a dream. I may very well have been in a light trance at the time. Back then and even now it is difficult for me to distinguish which it may have been. I heard an audible voice say to me as I was lying on my bed, "Behold I show you a mystery" which corresponds with a verse from the New Testament (I Corinthians 15:51, AV):

"Behold I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory."

Back then I had already started out on my spiritual path and my quest for wisdom, knowledge and truth. Living in a nominally Christian country it was natural that I should seek such wisdom in the Christian tradition and so I had began an exhaustive biblical study to seek answers and indeed to seek not only the  answers but most importantly the questions! However I was not consciously familiar with this verse although I may very well have encountered it in my readings and thus it may have sunk down into my subconscious mind. However this may have happened its revelation to me marked a moment of transition or initiation into the mysteries or RUNA as it would be called in the Rune Gild. One could call this an initiation.  In Runamal I (page 13) Dr Stephen Edred Flowers (Edred Thorsson) reveals how he audibly heard the word RUNA in his ear in June 1974 whilst on a drive home to Austin, Texas. The receiving of this word from an invisible source marked the beginning of his initiation. From that point onwards Woden guided him in his quest via the Runes. I would advise my readers to obtain a copy of this work which has been republished by Lodestar in 2017 as he has much to say on the meaning of RUNA.


It is significant that only the very first part of the verse from I Corinthians was revealed to me which had no obvious Christian content whatsoever. Only now after 40 years do I understand the message of this dream if that is what it is. "Behold I show you a mystery" corresponds very well to the motto of the Rune Gild: 'Reyn til Runa!' (Search out the mysteries). My experience was only a few years after Dr Flowers received RUNA. It is through the dream state that our ancestors were able to communicate with the Gods and other advanced spiritual entities. They are still communicating with us this way today.