indric net | Into the Mythica

Imagine an infinite net stretched across the heavens, at each node of which hangs a jewel that reflects all the other jewels in the net — each reflection containing all reflections, in an infinite recursion of mutual illumination. This is the ancient Hindu image of Indra's Net. The indric net is the Mythica's name for this living lattice of synchronicity — the vast web of interconnected timelines that makes up the tapestry of the Great Story, the fabric of the akasha through which all individual stories are woven together into a single, mutually illuminating whole. No thread is separate. Every story contains all stories. Every jewel reflects the others.

Like all aspects of the subtle world, the indric net cannot be perceived from a state of significant incoherence or limited awareness. The horizon of perception that defines your current position on the World Tree also defines what you can see of the web. Those whose prism of perception is significantly distorted by shadow and karmic compression see only their own immediate experience — their own timeline, their own characters, their own particular arc of struggle and seeking. As the inner clearing deepens and coherence increases, the perception of the indric net expands: you begin to feel the connections between your story and those of the people you encounter, to sense the larger patterns of synchronicity that link seemingly separate events, to perceive the way individual threads are woven into the larger tapestry.

In the Mythica's practice of sacred cartography, the mapping of the indric net is one of the primary purposes of documenting the Quest. When the encounters, synchronicities, and turning points of many individual journeys are recorded and placed in relationship to each other — when the Great Story becomes visible through the juxtaposition of multiple timelines moving through the same landscape — the indric net begins to appear as a felt reality rather than an abstraction. The jewels of individual stories illuminate each other, and in that mutual illumination, the underlying structure of the larger pattern — the World Tree in its full dimensionality — becomes perceptible to those with eyes developed enough to see it. You are not alone in your story. You are one jewel in an infinite web of reflecting light.