Lightning

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Lightning for me has always been a profoundly exciting and energizing event. When I was a young child, it fascinated me, except at night when the intense brilliant flashes triggered fear in me.

In fact, I had recurring dreams that the entire sky would break open into huge cracks of lightning, and those dreams terrified me. 
Now of course, when I see stuff like that, I feel thrilled and awe-struck.

Lightning has much symbolic significance in the mass consciousness.
In the Bible, God sometimes spoke in thunder.  In Vedic (India) literature, lightning symbolizes truth and insight.  In tarot cards, lightning frequently appears as striking and partially collapsing a castle tower. This represents tearing down old or established structures-just as truth would in some circumstances.

Many scientists believe that lightning is the cause for life here on earth; it's interaction with the primordial soup of organic molecules somehow transformed them into life.  In a more tangible way, lightning helps to fertilize the earth by "fixing" or dissolving nitrogen into a form that plants can integrate.

Negative ions triggered by lighting serve to energize our life energy fields and help us to feel more perky and alive.

It's so easy to see a similarity between the movement of lightning and the movement of nerve impulses. How majestic is is to watch lightning splinter and dance across the sky, then tumble in thick branches for earth below.
Here, the cauliflowery/curley cue thunderheads are like cosmic brains filled with nerve discharges. When lightning hits the earth, it travels up and down the spinal cord.

Lightning has always been my biggest draw in storms. I starting hunting for lightning in 1977, and continue to this day.

For my entire life I have felt like the protagonist in the movie "Powder", who activates his entire life energy field by sucking in the energy of lightning through his thymus or upper heart region.

I also feel this splendid electromagnetic energy when looking at towering thunderheads. Of course, I usually want to come close to or drive almost under those clouds to feel the full force and power of this awesome celestial force called lightning.