{billowing cloth} is equivalent to {lifted garment} in Christian art. Control-thoughts are pushed along from outside the personal control domain, like a sail driven by invisible altered-state power.
By Vergil Solis (1514-1562), from an illustrated version of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
The figures represent parts of the psyche. Andromeda = female, passive, receptive ego.
Stripped naked, exposed = the altered state lays bare one’s control system.
Chained to the rock amid the waves = sensation of being bound to the block universe while surrounded by perceptual undulation. She can only observe, but cannot move.
The divine hero Perseus rides the winged horse Pegasus.
Flying = altered state sensation of flight.
Horse and rider = steersman and the forward motion along the heimarmene world-line.
Perseus’ cloak billows behind him = the sensation that perception has been stepped up and placed above and beyond the normal seat of perception, the loose cognitive state.
Perseus flies above the snaky sea monster = the snake underneath the horse and rider represents the fixed path of the heimarmene world-line along which the horse and rider travel.
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