The Unenlightened Thread - Demystifying the Apple [Archive]

chocolate

21st March 2014, 13:26

I have posted this elsewhere, too, but it deserves (I would think) to be posted again:

The Mystic Spiral : Journey of the Soul
by Jill Purce
Source: http://www.mk-energies.com/tchs_mystic_en.php

Flow, form and symbol

Like all existence on the descending scale of realities, the spiral is a symbol. lt denotes eternity, since it may go on for ever. But because we necessarily conceive infinity in our own, and therefore finite, terms, we are forced to limit the limitless. lt is only by imposing limits that we can make infinity accessible to us. Thus, in practice, the spiral will end; on paper, in two dimensions, we have in this space-time world to stop drawing it.

The universe and man's consciousness (the macrocosm and the microcosm) consist in a continuum and a dynamic whole; this can be expressed by the spiral when, instead of ending, it is drawn either round a sphere or a doughnut ring, so that it joins up with itself by spiraling through its own middle. This symbol, which is perpetually turning in on itself expanding and contracting, has an interchangeable center and circumference, and has neither beginning nor end: it will be referred to here as the spherical vortex. The perpetual in-turning of the spherical vortex has analogies in nature with a stable form of flow created by the movement of air and water. This form, observed by blowing a smoke-ring or letting a drop of milk fall into water that has been allowed to settle, is called by scientists the vortex ring.

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Within the totality of the universal continuum, we are limited by space-time to successive and analytic observations of its parts. These parts, the transient formations of nature's perpetual motion - although never perfect - seem to us to approximate to an ideal. In so far as the archetypal flow and growth form assumed by the mushroom, the embryo and the brain embody a forward impulse which turns back on itself, they demonstrate exactly the forming of a vortex ring.

Many formations in nature, although both constituted and caused by dissimilar phenomena, are not only similar to look at, but have identical mathematical descriptions. This would suggest that together they form a higher overall order outside that limited by our concept of linear cause and effect. The spiral movement which creates a center and a 'whole' is also that which - combined with gravitational contraction creates the solar systems, their suns and planets. The galaxies too are probably created by the inward spiraling of interstellar gas. These are the macro-cosmic movements and cycles, mirrored in man the microcosm, which provide him with his model for all things cyclic, from sleep and emotions to time itself. The same vortical laws govern the movements of water, which composes nearly three-quarters of our physical bodies.

Water is the pure, potential and unformed matrix from which all life takes its being. Consequently, the characteristics of its vortical flow, its ephemeral but changeless configurations, remain in all things as a testimony of their origin. lt is from the involution of the unformed waters that the egg crystallizes by the turning in on itself of energy, of matter, or of consciousness; and all these are one and the same.

This order, reverberating down into the microscopic and subatomic levels, both structures and reflects our consciousness. The full significance of organization, which was obviously known to the Greeks since their word kosmos means 'order', is again being demonstrated by the physicists, who say that matter actually consists in its own movement and organization. Similarly, the growth of human consciousness is the continuous refining of its own organization, the ordering of its individual microcosm.

Although this process is built into the structure and is inherent in the natural evolution of man, it is one which can be facilitated and hastened with the aid of maps and guides. These maps are the mythological and religious systems which have been evolved by previous travelers, pioneers of the Way. Such a refining is alchemy, the transmutation of the natural man of the base metals into the spiritual man of pure gold, by repeated breaking down and building up (solve et coagula).

The following pages describe these maps and the ways in which man has understood the spiral of his own awareness. This spiral is not one, but many, which together constitute a spiral of multiple dimensions, in which each winding is also a complete spiral and each spiral just a winding. Furthermore, we are the spiral and all the spirals within. We need, above all, to become familiar with the nature of its movement, and consciously to make its laws our laws, like Edgar Allan Poe's sailor, who, by careful observation as he sank into the maelstrom, understood the nature of the vortex and was carried up by the spiral that had sucked him down.

The simple two-dimensional spiral has a number of remarkable properties. lt both comes from and returns to its source; it is a continuum whose ends are opposite and yet the same; and it demonstrates the cycles of change within the continuum and the alternation of the polarities within each cycle. lt embodies the principles of expansion and contraction, through changes in velocity, and the potential for simultaneous movement in either direction towards its two extremities. On the spherical vortex these extremities, the center and periphery, flow into each other; essentially, they are interchangeable.

In the relative world - that of time, space and their corollary, motion - the potential of movement in either direction manifests as choice; hence, in three dimensions, the spiral may be imagined either as the aspiring upward spiral or as the downward vortex. The spiral is inherently asymmetrical, and any choice of direction along the vertical axis also determines a right- or left-handed path: the choice of travelling with or against the sun. That the latter, widdershins or, sinister' direction has the associations it does is an indication of man's dose relationship with the movement of the heavens: it is said to be the entropic, unwinding movement from order into chaos, or, according to C. G. Jung, away from the conscious and towards the unconscious. By virtue of this important asymmetry the spiral can be superimposed on its mate of opposite-handedness only by turning it through another spatial dimension: a flat spiral must be lifted out of the page through three dimensions, or a spiral of three dimensions moved through four, and so on.

Direction is thus an indication of the dimension, and in traditional thought the 'world', through which the spiral turns. Since our world is predominantly right-handed, the world above is thought to be ,left-handed', a passage through another dimension being implied. According to the Jewish mystical tradition, the Cabbala, there are four worlds, all of which exist negatively beyond their positive existence. Not until one is outside the relative world of space and time is there an end to the possibility of rotating an asymmetric figure through the next dimension in space to coincide with its reflection.

The universal spherical vortex is perhaps the most complete symbol by which we can map our cosmic journey. As William Blake wrote in his poem 'Milton':

The nature of infinity is this: That everything has its
Own vortex, and when once a traveller thro' Eternity
Has pass'd that Vortex, he perceives it roll backward behind
His path, into a globe itself unfolding like a sun.
Thus is the heaven a vortex pass'd already, and the earth
A vortex not yet pass'd by the traveller thro' Eternity.

The evolutionary spiral

There are within every one of us three stages of knowledge. This is the spiral process by which not only individual man but the cosmos itself becomes realized; for it represents the course of evolution. Thus in the early days of humanity, as in childhood, there was no separation between ourselves and the outside world, until we, individually or as a race, became self-conscious. As a result of successive wind-ings, our individual and collective ego crystallized, and we could see ourselves as subject, and as distinct from the world, which became the object of our scrutiny. As we looked, the continuum differentiated into 'things'. Each branched into more things, which in turn branched into even more, until the continuum had developed into a hierarchy; language, which once flowed in verbs and processes, broke up into nouns and connectives.

The third stage for the individual is that of intuitive knowledge or enlightenment, in which subject and object again become one. In collective terms, this return to a continuum implies not only the need for a new language, like that which physicists are trying to develop, but that the analytic and quantitative world is winding itself into a new simplicity. At the widest extent of the spherical vortex, the turn is long and slow before we are gathered up into the momentum of the contracting vortex of collective enlightenment. Each person who is integrated, realized and truly individualized becomes universal; and the extremity of differentiation of individual consciousness leads back into the Totality. In this spiral, every one of us all over the globe is like a light becoming gradually brighter, until there are so many and so intense, that there is one light, the light of cosmic consciousness, or what Teilhard de Chardin has called the 'psychical convergence of the universe upon itself': the Omega Point

The breathing cosmos

Because any description of the Absolute must be limited, we are able to reveal it only by using symbols, which cut directly through all the layers and wind-ings of our consciousness.

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There is no space here to do more than touch on the profundity of these symbols; but they will be referred to throughout. Each is unity, either as the point or circle. Since a symbol cuts through all levels and therefore dimensions, they must also be visualized in three dimensions: each circle as a sphere.

The function of symbolism is to go beyond the 'limitation of the fragment' and link the different 'parts' of the whole, or alternatively the worlds in which these parts manifest: these worlds are successive wind-ings of the spiral. Each symbol is a link on the same frequency with the world above, a vertical bridge between objects within the same 'cosmic rhythm' on different planes of reality. In other words, each symbol links up with its 'correspondence' on the next spire. On a flat spiral, each point of intersection between a radius and the successive wind-ings would be the successive manifestation of a symbol, traced through the respective worlds from the densest to the subtlest level of cosmic manifestation. We, like Plato's prisoners in the cave, can see merely the shadows of the images of the real objects, which themselves arc only the manifestation of the Ideas and Archetypes (or Immutable Essences). In other words, even the ,originals', let alone the physical manifestations of nature, are but symbols of the metaphysical realities; and even these last, by virtue of their multiplicity, arc but 'parts' of the One Essence.

lt follows, therefore, that all manifestation, or all that we experience, is symbolic, and that 'the whole of existence is a continuum which is ordered in itself. lt has no manifest appearance and thus cannot be observed immediately by sense perceptions, but its inherent dynamism manifests in images whose structure participates in that of the continuum' (Wang-Fu Chih).

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lt is significant that, while the simple two-dimensional spiral is one of the most ancient symbols for eternity, it does not ever seem to have been a symbol for the Absolute. This is because it is not a whole; it can, by its very nature, never be complete.

The implication here is that all our conceptions of the Absolute must be more than unlimited extension: they must contain. In all traditions God is seen as containing everything within himself. All manifestation extends from, and yet is contained within, the point, to which it also returns.

So, while the two-dimensional spiral starts in infinity and extends to infinity, passing through all the intermediary coils of manifestation in time and the relative world, it is only symbolic of the spherical vortex. This, one of the most ancient symbols known to man, is most familiar as the Yin Yang sign; and, although this was restricted to the Far East, the spherical vortex existed in the West possibly even earlier. Certainly it is found as the double spirals carved by Megalithic man.

When the flat double spiral is moved up into three dimensions, it has its origin and end in the opposite poles of a central axis: the central infinity, or axis of consciousness.

The spiral has actually returned by winding on to its source. Its 'end' is not a second and therefore relativating infinity, as implied by the single spiral. The duplication of the One is simply the One looking at itself, and in so doing becoming subject and object: this is the duality by which all is known.

Keeping this dual picture in mind, we now have a third element: relation. This distance between subject and object is knowledge; hence, in Japanese, the word meaning 'to understand' (ivakarn) literally means 'to be divided'. On the Cabbalistic Tree of Life this space is actually called Knowledge, or Daat, and is the invisible point on the central axis between the Crown (Kether), I AM, and Truth (Tepheret), I AM. lt is understood as the link: Eheieh asher Ehieh: 'I AM (subject) that I AM (object).' This third principle is the mirror of consciousness by which pure Being looks at itself.

In the Islamic tradition it is said: ,I was a hidden treasure and I loved to be known, so I created the world.' On the spherical vortex, the hidden treasure is the point of origin. In order for the One to be known - for there to be consciousness of the treasure by the treasure - the world was created. The cycles of becoming, the rounds of existence, spiral on and reveal their source by the creation of a vantage point: from its own opposite pole the source may view and hence be conscious of itself. The separation of heaven and earth gave the light of consciousness by which all is seen and which all is seen and known.

This cyclic becoming appears in mythology as the protecting serpent or dragon which coils around the World Tree or Mountain - the central axis, the Axis Mundi.

This dragon is also the world of illusion, the coils of manifestation, which the hero must destroy on his quest for truth, for the treasure, the incorruptible diamond of the Self at the still pomt in the midst of things.

This theme recurs in a more or less explicit form in most traditions: the world materializes and man spiritualizes along the same spiral. lt is the breathing of the cosmos.

With the exhalation the spirit contracts, creates, and involves or winds into matter; this is the creation of the world by the breath of God. With the inhalation, matter expands and evolves or unwinds into spirit. Man is the heart and microcosmic controller of this pulse. By becoming conscious he is inhaling - effecting the return breath.

We breathe in only to breathe out; this is true of the universe no less than of man, who was created in the same image. This is why the life of each person is conceived, in so many mystical, religious, and mythological systems, as the conscious unwinding of the original coils of manifestation.

Looked at on a single spiral, the path to consciousness has to be seen as a return along the same path; on the spherical vortex, the return is a continuation. At the point of maximum contraction, the expansion begins.

The alternating phases are described by the Cabbala. As each individual spirals down the Tree of Life, he involves into matter, being conceived in Daat and born in Malkuth or Kingdom; he thus brings heaven down to earth at the moment of birth, at which point the process is reversed, and through life he spirals back up the Tree, evolving or aspiring into spirit. He takes earth back to heaven, remembering in consciousness his original path. Indeed, all recognition, all knowledge of life, is a conscious remembering of the pre-conscious knowledge of the involving path.

This is a rather long article, and I will split it in two (or three) parts.
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araucaria

21st March 2014, 13:26

Post #1:

Gravitational Waves explained with a Towel and an Apple

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On 17 March, physicists working on the BICEP2 experiment, based at the South Pole, announced that they had glimpsed gravitational waves – ripples in the fabric of spacetime – dating back to the universe's birth.

The observation, via tell-tale swirls in maps of relic light from the big bang, represent the first clear detection of gravitational waves, which were first predicted by Albert Einstein.

The discovery also allows us to peer back in time further than anyone thought possible. That could have all kinds of knock-on effects for our understanding of the universe, perhaps even helping to shore up one of the most exciting, and baffling, ideas in cosmology: the multiverse.

The idea that our universe is just one of many is a whole other story, but to get handle on how we got to this point, watch the video.
Source: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25254#.Uywu1YR_iPo
The apple on the towel begs the question of what gravity actually is. It is one way of visualizing what gravity does, but says nothing about why it does it. Einstein used a rubber sheet: there is no rubber sheet, and its inherent elasticity cannot be used to explain the effect. Why is the sheet rubber and not steel?

I find the story of Newton’s apple more interesting. Why did the (possibly apocryphal) apple fall on his head? Answer, because it was ripe and the stalk had dried out. The seeds in their protective casing were ready to leave the parent tree and begin life on their own in the ground. Only they gravitated towards Newton’s heavyweight brain on the way.

The moral of the story is that while gravitation may be seen as a theory trying to get out, this happened through a ripe practical demonstration trying to get in. In other words universal consciousness guiding human consciousness – food for thought :)

One binding force of human consciousness is often called love: people are attracted and drawn to each other. It comes in two modes, cumulative – like likes like – and complementary – opposites attract each other. Another binding force of human consciousness is called control: magnetic personalities exercise their influence over others and repellent ones do likewise.

In planetary terms, we see something strange going on. While the Earth gravitationally controls the Moon, on the level of human consciousness, we seem to have the Moon controlling the Earth and Earthlings. Indeed astrology tells us that all solar system bodies influence us in positive and negative ways probably more explicable in electrical terms.

For there is a positive side to the negative and a negative side to the positive. What the mainstream offers us is nearly always the same side. In the above example, love may be seen as a form of control. But love is also about letting people one is attracted and drawn to wander off and do their own thing. This is also known as respect for other people’s free will. This is the opposite of the kind we usually mean by tough love: it is tough not on the loved one but on the lover – much harder. Newton’s apple tree letting that apple fall. Gravity is only one way to go: a gust of wind might have carried it upwards, and indeed this is the preferred method for the seeds of many trees. In other words, the effects of antigravity are generally underplayed.

One more example. We hear about the Sun’s attraction over the planets, which are said to have condensed from a larger cloud. This is probably the wrong view of the situation, placing the emphasis on the firm grip of gravitational attraction. The astronomer Tom van Flandern suggested how stars gave birth to planets, and planets to moons. Paul LaViolette goes further and suggests that all these bodies grow into each other, and stars grow into larger brighter stars and eventually into galaxies. He even suggests that this process covers the entire range of matter from the smallest particle to the largest galactic supercluster. If so – and it makes more sense as a universal phenomenon – we may see celestial objects as playing a parental role of protection, with increasing autonomy as their children grow and gradually move away.

This being the case, as I feel it must be, the untheorized emphasis on gravitational control (I am not talking here about cutting-edge science but of general perceptions) strikes me as a very short-sighted, immature approach acceptable in small children but one that needs to fade as they grow. It may well be that we have one or two childish parents in these parts as well. The big picture is then that we as a species and as a part of this planet are growing, and even if we behave like a sullen teenager, we are going to grow out of it and hopefully play a useful part in the scheme of things.

chocolate

21st March 2014, 13:29

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The idea of unwinding was familiar to W. B. Yeats, who wrote:

Unwinding is the inhalation or expansion of the great breath. lt is also the returning of the original impulse: the curling round on itself of the natural world, from the planetary orbits to the mushroom, from the recurrence of our experiences to the circulation of our subtle energies.

Jaunting, journeying
To his own dayspring
He unpacks the loaded pern
Knowledge he shall unwind
Through victories of the mind.

lt is for this reason that conscious breathing plays such an important role in every form of meditation. Man is echoing the cosmic rhythms, the eternal creation and dissolution of the universe. This also accounts for the importance of the word and breath in so many cosmogenies, and, by extension, the idea of the creation of the world through the naming of things and the letters of the alphabet; this appears in the Cabbalistic, Arabic and Hindu traditions.

In Islam the breath is the 'Divine Exhalation', the manifestation of the Creative, the feminine principle of the One, analogous with the Hindu goddess Sakti. Manifested through this creative breath are the Divine Archetypes or names in the twenty-eight letters of the Arabic alphabet. The alternating breath of 'continuous creation' are the origin of the Sufi ritual, the dhikr. This is the invocatory 'remembrance' of the original Divine act, in accordance with the saying of the Prophet: 'He who does not vibrate at the remembrance of the Friend, has no friend.' The pulsating breath and rhythmic invocation of the sacred Names culminates (as in the whirling of the Dervishes) in cosmic movements and vibrations of the whole body. With each outward breath the Divine Principle is manifest. lt is returned ,back to the Divine Essence at every moment on the phase of contraction, and remanifest and externalized in that of expansion' (S. H. Nasr, Three Muslim Sages). Every moment of existence is thus integrated into its transcendent origin.

These alternating phases correspond to those of the waxing and waning moon; according to the Sufi mystic Ibn 'Arabi, her twenty-eight phases correspond to the letters of the Arabic alphabet, the forms of which are themselves traditionally derived from the lunar shapes. Moreover, since the letters are also phonetic, their form, sound and inner meaning as Divine names (or lines of force, or causes of the universe) are closely related.

The moon, whose cyclic rhythm we may not only watch by night but readily perceive through our emotions, has provided man with many associations for his awareness of the spiral, not least in its relationship to the rhythm and spiral flow of the water which constitutes the greater part of our physical bodies.

The two eternities

Situated between the poles, on our journey through the spherical vortex, we see at either end our source and goal. We are pulled in both directions, since the longing for the womb, described by some psychologists, has its counterpart in the passionate longing of the mystic for union with God.

For the first part of our lives we are predominantly outgoing, externalizing and developing our individual ego as a basis from which to cope with the world around us.

This is the development of our first consciousness of self as a separate entity.

Starting from the pole, our initial windings are expanding. They start small, so that in the beginning it takes less time to complete one cycle. The relative speed of development and growth in a child, as seen from the outside, is prodigious in the beginning.

Setting out as children, we have an enormous journey - our entire sphere to wind round - before we reach home once more. Each turn or cycle takes gradually longer to complete; objectively, the development gets slower, and the windings become gradually more stable as they approach the equator or turning-point. We can see the same development in two dimensions on the Yin Yang, where at the fullness of one cycle the seed of its opposite offsets the balance and causes a reversal of direction, after which, on the vortex as on all homeward journeys, the speed of rotation increases.

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Each winding marks a containment and a completed cycle in the development of the whole; but, as each is a part of the whole, the completion is also a beginning, so that the spiral shows the endosure and 'rounded' quality we experience, and the equivalent points reached at every new winding. The recurrent moments of crisis and decision, when understood, are growth junctures, points of initiation which mark a release or death from one state of being and a growth or birth into the next. 'How many times,' said Yeats, 'man lives and dies between his two eternities.'

Most traditions, mythologies, religions and legends describe these two eternities, the two ends of the life spiral. In psychological terms, for example, that from which we part with such reluctance is the undifferentiated matrix of the unconscious, an existence bathed in the pre-egoid memories of the watery abyss of our life within the womb. Everything here seems to have been easy and perfect, eternal and deathless; this was the Golden Age and Paradise, and that from which we were expelled.

The dawning of consciousness was a self-consciousness. By eating from the Tree of Knowledge we saw ourselves objectively - from outside and hence naked - for the first time. This was the first sign of our development, the turning round in order to observe ourself and the consequent delineation of an identity and 'whole' within the unformed ebb and flow of unqualified bliss. This state is described in many of the creation myths, which are at once microcosmic and macrocosmic. The first phase in the ego's development appears mythologically as the cosmic egg. In the Hindu tradition it is the Golden Egg of Brahma, floating on the waters of chaos: the first tentative separation, while still floating amid that which it contains and composes. Astrologically this is the phase governed by the moon, for the moon controls the waters and reflects the sun, as the ego reflects the Self. The egg is formed by the inturning or involution of Being.

If the beginning ofour journey was the Golden Egg or the Golden Age, its end is the rediscovery of that which we lost, the Golden Fleece or Alchemical Gold. But the right way back to the beginning is by going on. As the Tao Te Ching says:

Going on means going far,
Going far means returning.

To go back would be to go against the order of things, and to get sucked into the downward vortex. There can be a return to the centre only if there was first a departure from it, just as there can be no contraction without expansion. As one leads to the other, so the initial expansion and exploration of the developing being is checked by its return from unlimited dissipation into the infinite. Thus delineated, the 'ego' is contrasted with that which is outside the boundary, a God transcendent, and returns to dissolve its own delineation, to find God within and immanent.

The goal is at once a perfection of and a release from the self. Although these can be two distinct aims, it is also through the knowledge necessary for perfection that there is a release. The annihilation of the self in God, which is the Eastern goal of Nirvana, is also the release from the coils of Maya or illusion, the rounds of existence, and hence the passage from the spiral on to the central axis - the Centre in the midst of conditions - which is also the realization of the source in one's own being.

For what the centre brings
Must obviously be
That which remains to the end
And was there from eternity.
(Goethe, Westöstlicher Diwan)

On some paths the centre is dissolved; on others it has, by virtue of sheer perfection and knowledge, become transparent. In the Hindu tradition, the centre is called the 'Diamond Body'. This still point, free from the emotional turmoils of everyday existence, is described as something indestructible and unchangeable. In other traditions it is the Rock of Living Waters, the Ka'aba of the Heart, the Philosophers' Stone, the Stone of Sure Foundation, the pearl or jewel. The centre hardens, its transparency increasing, until, indestructible, it has the clarity of the diamond.

Seen on the flat spiral our journey can begin in infinity and move inward to the centre, the concentration of infinity into a point. Infinity is thus reached through a process of ordering and concentrating. The One which is everywhere can be found in the centre of being: a concentration of the One as everywhere into the One as centre.

This organization and concentration is implicit in the diamond, whose constituent carbon atoms, while the same as those of graphite and of coal, have here reached a state of maximum order and perfection. lt is the clarity gained by such an ordering that is the goal.

The spiral journey which begins in transparency, at its most fluid in the unformed waters, comes to its final transparency in the perfection of the diamond.

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And that is the end of this article. I have posted it in full, for further use.

chocolate

21st March 2014, 13:33

Araucaria, thank you for your post!
I have had pretty much the same questions myself.

But,
I will come to that just a bit further down the line.

chocolate

21st March 2014, 13:44

I hope everyone is having more fun, than not.
I mean, nothing serious here, just a few concepts, which when observed from the position of the kid playing in the dirt, it all starts to make (some?) much more sense.

But because Araucaria had questions, I would answer in this way:
I think now may be the time to throw in the Primer Filed Videos
(they have been posted countless times already, but it is always good to support a few more concepts with them):

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I just don't know how the buddhist dorje ended up there ... :P
http://buddhistsymbols.info/dorje-vajra/

Agape --> your turn ?

:)

chocolate

21st March 2014, 13:53

Let me post some more Apple-related information here:

Do we remember 2012?
Excerpt from the Foundation for the Law of Time here: http://www.lawoftime.org/home.html and here: http://www.lawoftime.org/rainbow-bridge/rainbow-bridge-is-universal-peace.html

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chocolate

21st March 2014, 13:58

And now let's get a bit back to our own human bodies:

How Your Body Generates Electricity
of course from Dr. Mercola (http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/03/01/body-electricity-grounding.aspx)

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Your body is capable of generating electricity, and this ability is actually a key part of your achieving health. Electricity allows your nervous system to send signals to your brain. These signals are actually electrical charges that are delivered from cell to cell, allowing for nearly instantaneous communication.

The messages conducted via electrical signals in your body are responsible for controlling the rhythm of your heartbeat, the movement of blood around your body, and much more.

Your biological clock even uses electrical activity in order to help keep your circadian rhythms in order.1 You are, quite simply, an electrical being. If electrical activity stops in your body, you cannot survive. But how, exactly, does this electrical activity take place?

How Does Your Body Produce Electricity?

The video above, from The Medicine Journal,2 gives a concise explanation of the complex process your body uses to generate electricity. Inside your body are atoms that are made up of positively charged protons, negatively charged electrons, and neutrons (which are neutral).

An atom with unbalanced charges will become either positively or negatively charged, and the switch from one charge to the other allows electrons to flow from one atom to another. This is what is referred to as electricity.3

Your cells generate electrical charges via electrolytes like sodium and potassium using a mechanism known as the "sodium-potassium gate." As Discovery Health explained:4

"When your body needs to send a message from one point to another, it opens the gate. When the membrane gate opens, sodium and potassium ions move freely into and out of the cell.

Negatively charged potassium ions leave the cell, attracted to the positivity outside the membrane, and positively charged sodium ions enter it, moving toward the negative charge. The result is a switch in the concentrations of the two types of ions -- and rapid switch in charge.

…this flip between positive and negative generates an electrical impulse. This impulse triggers the gate on the next cell to open, creating another charge, and so on. In this way, an electrical impulse moves from a nerve in your stubbed toe to the part of your brain that senses pain."

It is because of your body's electrical activity that defibrillators, which deliver an electric shock to your heart, may work to restore heart rhythm and why receiving the wrong type of shock, like an electric shock or lightning strike, can essentially "fry" your body's electrical system. The opposite also holds true in that you can actually harness the electrical charge of the Earth to positively influence your health in numerous ways.

Your Body Can Absorb Free Electrons from the Earth

The Earth carries an enormous negative charge. It's always electron-rich and can serve as a powerful and abundant supply of antioxidant and free-radical-busting electrons.

Your body is finely tuned to "work" with the Earth in the sense that there's a constant flow of energy between your body and the Earth. When you put your feet on the ground, you absorb large amounts of negative electrons through the soles of your feet.

The effect is sufficient to maintain your body at the same negatively charged electrical potential as the Earth. This simple process is called "grounding" or "earthing," and its effect is one of the most potent antioxidants we know of.

Grounding has been shown to relieve pain, reduce inflammation, improve sleep, enhance wellbeing, and much, much more. When you wear rubber- or plastic-soled shoes, however, you are effectively shielding yourself from this beneficial influx of electrons from the Earth.

Why It's So Important to Stay Grounded

Grounding's potent antioxidant effect helps alleviate inflammation throughout your body, a potentially life-saving benefit since inflammation is at the root of most diseases, including heart disease.

According to Dr. Stephen Sinatra, a prominent cardiologist, inflammation thrives when your blood is thick and you have a lot of free radical stress, and a lot of positive charges in your body. Grounding effectively alleviates inflammation because it thins your blood and infuses you with negatively charged ions through the soles of your feet.

Grounding helps thin your blood by improving its zeta potential, which means it improves the energy between your red blood cells. Research has demonstrated it takes about 80 minutes for the free electrons from the earth to reach your bloodstream and transform your blood.

Hypercoagulable (thick, slow-moving) blood contributes to chronic inflammation, because when your blood does not flow well, oxygen can't get to your tissues. Grounding's effect on blood thinning is so profound that if you are taking blood thinners, you must work with your health care provider to lower your dose otherwise you may overdose on the medication. You can see my interview with Dr. Sinatra below.

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Grounding Helps Neutralize Free Radicals

Interestingly, grounding research has now discovered that if you place your feet on the ground after an injury (or on a grounded sheet, or place grounding patches on the balls of your feet), electrons will migrate into your body and spread through your tissues. Any free radicals that leak into the healthy tissue will immediately be electrically neutralized. This occurs because the electrons are negative, while the free radicals are positive, so they cancel each other out. As noted by Dr. James Oschman, an expert in the field of energy medicine:

"So really what is happening with grounding or earthing is that you're protecting your body from -- I call it, collateral damage… Damage that was not intended to take place but does take place because we have disconnected ourselves from the Earth by putting rubber and plastic on the bottoms of our shoes."

Free radical stress from exposure to pollution, cigarettes, insecticides, pesticides, trans fats, and radiation, just to name a few, continually deplete your body of electrons. Simply by getting outside, barefoot, touching the Earth, and allowing the excess charge in your body to discharge into the Earth, you can alleviate some of the stress continually put on your system. Walking barefoot can help ameliorate the constant assault of electromagnetic fields and other types of radiation from cell phones, computers, and Wi-Fi. It's also thought that grounding may actually facilitate the formation of structured water in your body.

Furthermore, grounding also calms your sympathetic nervous system, which supports your heart rate variability. And, when you support heart rate variability, this promotes homeostasis, or balance, in your autonomic nervous system. This is important because anytime you improve your heart rate variability, you're improving your entire body and all its functions. If you want to learn more, check out the Grounded documentary (in which I actually appear). You'll hear first-hand accounts from residents of Haines, Alaska who have overcome chronic pain, sleep apnea, and much more simply by getting grounded.

How to Reconnect with the Earth's Electrical Charge

Many Americans spend most of their waking hours wearing shoes with rubber or plastic soles. These materials are very effective insulators, which is precisely why they're used to insulate electrical wires. Yet, they also effectively disconnect you from the Earth's natural electron flow. Wearing leather-soled shoes will allow you to stay grounded with the Earth, as will walking barefoot, but you'll need to do so on the proper surface. Good grounding surfaces include:

Sand (beach)
Grass (preferably moist)
Bare soil
Concrete and brick (as long as it's not painted or sealed)
Ceramic tile

The following surfaces will NOT ground you: (pay attention to your floors)

Asphalt
Wood
Rubber and plastic
Vinyl
Tar or tarmac

Like eating right, exercising, and sleeping, grounding can be described as yet another lifestyle habit that supports optimal health by supporting your body's "electrical" connection with the Earth. It's supported and backed by prominent medical doctors, scientists including Dr. David Suzuki, NASA astronauts, and was used by ancient civilizations who placed strong value on their relationship to the Earth.

As mentioned, simply taking off your shoes as much as you can when you're outdoors will help you take advantage of natural grounding opportunities. When indoors, using a grounding pad or sheet is an excellent way to stay grounded while you're working or sleeping. (For frequent travelers, I typically bring a grounding pad with me when I fly, too.)

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chocolate

21st March 2014, 14:18

And I figured, we can include here:

RESTORING CENTRIPETAL FORCES: The Fractal Field
with Dan Winter (http://www.fractalfield.com/videointro/)

http://blip.tv/fractal-field/dan-winter-four-melbourne-tv-video-intro-to-fractal-field-new-science-of-life-restored-centripetal-forces-6129717

and some more here:
Architecture of LIFE- Biologic Architecture- Part 1- Creating LIFE FORCE Electrically
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chocolate

21st March 2014, 14:36

I am guessing I overwhelmed you, but may be if we get to spend some time learning some amazingly interesting information, there will be just no time to go wander in the areas of possession, and evil control systems.

I am going to step out temporarily, but I hope to be back soon.
There are a few interesting pieces I can share here, even if I am to be my only audience.

I am leaving you with a very simple concept presented as a picture here:
http://www.viewzone.com/electro.plasma.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/t1.0-9/r270/p417x417/1383740_10152292711878258_2059158381_n.jpg
The bottom picture is showing you a gift for one of my birthdays.
I know, my dad can be funny this way.

If you have paid attention to the Primer Fields Videos, and knowing what the dorje also might be representing as a concept,
the images above could be just describing

what our Sun in Reality is
(a transformer, a hollow sphere of energy, created between the two polarities shown as a RED magnetic polarity, and a BLUE magnetic polarity, in the Primer Fields Series)

And you know, I get to have my mini- solar flares, if I were to shout out loud,
or approach the sphere with my fingers, the electro-magnetic fingers that I so happen to have (and so do you!)

Cheers!

:)

PS.
Auch, I forgot to mention
- related to the SUN -
our thoughts have an electro-magnetic component to them (go search about this if you are interested, don't believe me when I say it) ...
which would probably mean we need to be careful what we think about

(the SUN)
or in general,

The powerful the thoughts (as in some massive negative emotion directed at some massive negative future event)...
The bigger the effects...

or was it 'be careful what you wish for, for you might just as well get it?' ...

Hervé

21st March 2014, 15:42

Kudos "Œil de Lynx"!

Quite an encryption problem for ancients to represent 3D objects onto a slate in 2D... never mind the reverse deciphering of these 2D projections/representations into an original 3D object...

Yet the trick was known to some from the pale of humanity:

"Pierre, le cercle n'est que l'ombre de la sphère."
Pierre Derlon - Traditions occultes des Gitans

chocolate

21st March 2014, 16:26

Hi Amzer Zo!
I am still dreaming of the time when my French will be good enough to read your suggested book (I have diligently noted it in my black notebook)... so far that is just a dream!

:)

chocolate

21st March 2014, 16:44

So, what did those ancient people knew... I wondered.

I will start with one favorite video here:

Japan
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(I have always known that those ancient people were much better versed in all things living, than we are.
Does any-body need some supporting materials such as pictures of the current state of destruction?)

chocolate

21st March 2014, 16:49

Lynx
taken from Wiki

... a medium-sized wild cat;
... The name "lynx" originated in Middle English via Latin from the Greek word "λύγξ", derived from the Indo-European root "leuk-", meaning "light, brightness", in reference to the luminescence of its reflective eyes;
... The lynx is usually solitary, although a small group of lynx may travel and hunt together occasionally...
... The lynx inhabits high altitude forests with dense cover of shrubs, reeds, and tall grass. Although this cat hunts on the ground, it can climb trees and can swim swiftly, catching fish...

I have to say, this thread is such a Delight.

:)

Hervé

21st March 2014, 17:45

Lynx (mythology) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_%28mythology%29)

The lynx (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx), a type of wildcat, has a prominent role in Greek (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mythology), Norse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_mythology), and North American mythology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_mythology). It is considered an elusive and mysterious creature, known in some American Indian traditions as a 'keeper of secrets'.[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_%28mythology%29#cite_note-1) It is also believed to have supernatural eyesight, capable of seeing even through solid objects.[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_%28mythology%29#cite_note-2) As a result, it often symbolises the unravelling of hidden truths, and the psychic power of clairvoyance (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clairvoyance).[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_%28mythology%29#cite_note-3)

Lynx (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx#Mythologie_europ.C3.A9enne)
Une autre superstition veut que le lynx aient de bons yeux. Cette croyance est née d’une confusion avec l’argonaute Lyncée (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idas_et_Lync%C3%A9e) qui possédait une vision perçante40 (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx#cite_note-GestaPopu-47). On pensait également que les yeux brillants du lynxNote 10 (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx#cite_note-88) éclairaient la route et pouvaient rendre aveugle tant la lumière était intense79 (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx#cite_note-borealImagine-89). Ses yeux étincelants avaient prétendument la faculté de voir à travers les murs71 (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx#cite_note-DICO-79).

Hence, "Œil de Lynx"

chocolate

21st March 2014, 19:49

pH and Voltage - "Healing is Voltage"
Dr Jerry Tennant

W4_8EE8a8YI
just to support my previous posts

Amzer Zo,
now would be the time to change my avalon name to something that has lynx inside ... thank you for your last post
:)

chocolate

22nd March 2014, 09:48

I would assume that for now the concept of our bodies being somewhat under the constant influence of some very easy to understand forces, such as the forces of electro-magnetism, is not so far-fetched.

I would continue here by posting an article.

Beginning Here and Now: Human Machine
from http://gnosticteachings.org/courses/beginning-here-and-now/650-the-human-machine.html

http://gnosticteachings.org/images/stories/anatomy/nervous-system.jpg

If we open the eyes of our imagination and reflect upon the incredible sophistication of this human organism, and vividly imagine all of the intricate systems within it that are interrelated and interdependent, that constitute the organism we inhabit, we see a very complex, very beautiful machine that functions without our direct intervention or without our direct will. We see the marvelous processes of our digestion, of our circulatory system, of the endocrine system, and all the other processes that make possible this very moment that we are experiencing. The organism that we are all seated within is constantly active, with many processes and transformations - about which we remain unaware - but whose marvelous power is evident and undeniable.

In some corners of our science and wisdom, we've heard it stated that the human organism is comparable to an iceberg, which as you know, rests in the waters of the ocean, and only a very small percent of that structure is visible from the surface. The majority of it is submerged and hidden from the eyes of the flesh. Our human organism is no different. What we perceive with our physical eyes is only a small percentage of the structure that constitutes our physiology, and importantly, our psychology. In order for us to truly understand our place in the universe, it is essential for us to understand this organism that we inhabit, and its purpose.

If we again call upon the spectacular powers of our imagination, and we look with our mind's eye at the entirety of this planet, we can see a huge globe that has a very thin film, or skin, wrapped around its surface. And within and upon that thin layer of life interact a multitude of organisms of varying degrees of sophistication and power. With our imagination we can see that all of those organisms, each in its own way, contributes to the economy and health of the organism upon which we all live. All of the minerals, plants, and animals constitute the organs of this Earth, or in other words, devices or machines that perform particular tasks.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/718ouklxKuL.jpg

By means of analogy we can see a comparable situation within our own body, when we see the systems that manage our own health and life. The organs perform specific tasks in harmony with other organs and other systems. So, within this analogy, we can refer back again to the Earth, and see how all the plants and trees perform a particular function, which must remain in harmony with the functions performed by the animals, or by the minerals. We know in modern science that within any given ecosystem there is a very delicate balance that nature manages. When an ecosystem is left on its own, without the interference of external forces, such as man, that ecosystem - with a delicate, careful orchestration of all its parts: minerals, plants and animals - achieves a process of development, a certain kind of balance within which each of those component parts contributes to the health of the whole. In that way, we can see that each of the different creatures upon this planet contribute to the reciprocal nourishment of the system within which they live.

Naturally, in these times we find a striking exception to this cohesive, pervasive system. The exception is us.
[...]
So, returning to the analysis of our own inner cosmos, the physical body, we can see that this structure is really formidable. It is truly incomprehensible to our current mind, because of its great beauty and its great sophistication. And really, we don't need to do much to maintain its existence. We have certain procedures that we have to follow in order to sustain our life to some measure of health. These include eating, drinking, and breathing. But there is more to health than that.

Really, this organism has a purpose, and has functions that we barely suspect. When we look at the systems of this body, we see that it has a collection of glands, and a collection that we call the nervous system, which can be divided in various ways. These systems are intermediaries, meaning that they are transformers. They receive, transform, and transmit energies.

When we look at plants and animals and minerals, we can surmise to some degree a percentage of their functions, and how they ingest, transform, and transmit energy. The human organism is no exception. We take in a great number of energetic influences: food, air, water and impressions. All of these types of food are constantly entering into our organism. Then our organism transforms those energies, and transmits the altered result back out. So, why is that?

When we observe how plants, for example, receive solar light, water, and minerals, we can see on a physical level how they transform those elements and release the changed elements. Those changed elements in turn will benefit the system that the plant inhabits. So, a plant, for example, will ingest certain gaseous elements and then release others. This in turn benefits its environment. The human organism in its base function is the same: the human organism is a machine that transforms energy in order to nourish the Earth.
[...]
The way that the human machine lives is as a machine: a mechanical vehicle that behaves according to a pre-programmed behavior. A machine takes in certain elements and releases others without any cognizance whatsoever of what it is doing or why. A machine has no consciousness of what it is doing. Unfortunately, we can see this lack of consciousness in the behavior of humanity: all we need do is look at how we are polluting our waters, our air, our food, our homes, our bodies and our minds. The catastrophes that are happening to us were made by us, and yet we continue creating them: this is a serious lack of consciousness of our own actions.

We can see this lack of consciousness in the way we move in groups, motivated by impulses that we scarcely perceive. Unfortunately, in these times, this mechanical behavior has entered into a very disturbing phase.

The Birth of the "I"
In any normal situation, the human organism would contribute in a beneficial way to its environment in the way that it receives, transforms, and transmits energy. It would benefit all of the creatures that exist around it. In ancient times, this was the case. The beneficial status of the human organism in nature is symbolized in the Bible by the great peacefulness and reciprocal health found in the Garden of Eden.

But unfortunately, there was a certain error that occurred when the human machines of that age [Lemuria] began to realize that they were simply machines, without a grand purpose. When that realization began to occur to that ancient humanity, they became despaired and questioned the purpose of life; they were near to committing a kind of mass suicide. And so, in order to advance the process of the evolution of the species and prevent that despair from becoming prohibitive, the guides of humanity placed within the organism a new organ, an organ which, in the evolution of any human race, is always placed within the body in order to develop the relationship between the organism and its environment. This organ is called the Kundabuffer.

At that time, the Kundabuffer, being introduced into the human organism, intensified the organisms perception of physical matter by means of stronger physical sensations. This helped that ancient race forget their worries about being mere machines. This new organ gave them the appreciation for the environment in which they lived. But unfortunately, due to certain karmic influences, when the guides of humanity finally removed this organ so the evolution of this species would continue, a certain shadow remained, a shadow of that intensified sensation: an attraction towards energy and matter. It is from this shadow that desire emerged: the "I" emerged, the ego, the desire for sensation.
[...]
And now, with this persistent desire or craving for sensation, the human machine has become enslaved by the lust for sensations.
[...]

The Five Centers

http://gnosticteachings.org/images/stories/anatomy/five-centers-human-machine.png

the intellectual
the emotional
the motor
the instinctual
the sexual

Each of these five centers completely pervades the organism. And yet, if we observe ourselves we can see that they each have a particular center of gravity - a root location or relationship with a specific part of the body.

The intellectual center has its center of gravity in the brain.
The emotional center has its center of gravity in the chest, the solar plexus and the heart.
The motor center has its center of gravity at the top of the spine.
The instinctual center has its center of gravity at the base of the spine.
The sexual center has its center of gravity in the sexual organs.

Each one of these centers has specific functions and capacities.
[...]
When we begin this process of learning about our psyche, learning about ourselves, and trying to comprehend how our mind functions, it becomes evident that each of these five centers has its own particular functions, and a great variety of speed. It is assumed in this modern world that the intellect is the most superior of these centers. It is assumed that the intellect is the fastest, that it has the most power, and is the best or most important part of us. But, actually, this is not so, and can be easily observed. The intellectual is the slowest of all the centers. When you begin to seriously self-observe and become mindful of your psyche from moment to moment, you will quickly encounter this fact. The emotional center is faster than intellect. The motor-instinctive center is faster than intellect. The sexual center is faster than intellect. All of these components of our psyche move at much greater speeds than our intellect.
[...]
In actual fact, we can see that the intellect is the slowest center. A little bit faster, about 30,000 times faster, are the motor and instinctive centers. And these two function at comparable speeds. But nonetheless, they are 30,000 times faster than the intellect. And faster still is the emotional center, which is another 30,000 times than the motor and instinctive.

And yet, clearly, the most rapid, the most potent center of all, is the sexual. It is with good cause that Freud stated that sex is the center of gravity of the human mind. It is the central axis upon which our psyche functions. This is an undeniable fact. It is for this reason that true religion, true spirituality, is always rooted in sexuality. The sexual brain, or sexual center, has the singular power of being able to transform any other center, to completely revolutionize the organism. The center with the most potency, power, the most force, the greatest capacity to create an impulse, or a movement in a person, is the sexual center. It is the fastest and the deepest. And, it is the most difficult to control.

When we learn about these centers in our observations, we realize that they all rely on a kind of duality. "For and against," or "yes and no." The intellect develops ideas: thesis and antithesis. Ideas or and ideas against. The emotional center feels emotional qualities that are either pleasant or unpleasant. We find the same dualism in the sexual center, with attraction and repulsion. So we can see that all of these centers register both positive and negative energies. But they are in themselves simply machines. Each center is simple a transformer. Each one simply takes given energies, transforms them, and transmits the result.

The most important of these centers is the sexual. It becomes somewhat easy to observe and analyze the process of thinking. And with a certain amount of effort, it becomes somewhat easy to control the process of thought, to even arrest thought. But it becomes more difficult when we try to do the same with our motor-instinctive center. And yet, even here, we can achieve a certain degree of control when we learn, or unlearn, certain habits. But when we try to approach the emotional center, the difficulties become immense because the emotional center is so fast and so strong. If you have ever tried to control your anger, you know what I am talking about. Emotions are very powerful. And yet, they are less powerful than the sexual impulses. The most difficult center to control is the sexual center. It is the single most potent, powerful source of energy within our organism. And it is the most difficult to be consciously in charge of. The sexual center works so fast and with so much energy, that generally we are just slaves to it. The sexual center can identify a sexual complement almost instantly. Faster than we can think about it, faster than we can feel any emotion, faster than we can act through our motor or instinctive centers, the sexual center will be able to identify a person that we find attractive before we can exercise any of our own will. And you can observe this in yourself at any moment. After this lecture, you may find yourself outside and discover how fast sexual attraction or sexual repulsion can arise, before thought, before emotion, before any motor action - even before instinct. And this of course, is the great difficulty. As the most potent center in the human organism, it is the greatest source of power that we have.

This is why all the great religions and mystical traditions rely upon the sexual center as their source of power, the source of transformation, of rebirth.

When we look closely at the world, we can see two fundamental factors that produce impulses and motivations in the psyche of mankind: sex and ego. This is why the world is in the state that it is - because these two impulses are not being consciously managed. Instead, sexual desire and egotistical desire have completely gained control over the entire human machine. Now the human organisms run around from here to there, doing all of their activities firstly driven by sexual desire, and secondly by egotistical desire: by pride, by anger, by envy, by jealously, by fear.

Swami Sivananda wrote a very interesting paragraph about this. He said:
Man has degraded himself to a great degree by becoming a puppet of passion. Alas, he has become an imitative machine. He has lost his power of discrimination. He has sunk into the most abject form of slavery. What a sad state. What a lamentable plight indeed. If he wishes to regain his lost divine state and Brahmic glory, his whole being must be transformed. His sex desire must be completely transmuted by sublime, divine thoughts, and regular meditation. Transmutation of the sex desire is a very potent, effacious [sic] and satisfactory way to realize eternal bliss.

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End of part 1

chocolate

22nd March 2014, 10:13

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Sexual Power

If we look at humanity now as that organ on the face of the Earth, and we analyze its use of sexual energy, we can see that that sexual functionalism has been entirely rooted in desire, in egotistical desire and lust, we can see what the human organism has become: worse than an animal, fighting to survive, having no knowledge of the future, no knowledge of its own actions, no knowledge of its own true nature, living in fear, living in terror, consumed by stress, raging lusts, and by doubt. The human organism is afflicted with all manner of illnesses, both psychological and physical. The human organism is largely unable to produce great art, great joy, great insight, but instead just imitates; for the human machines of these times, creating is hard, but destroying is easy. There have been some exceptions, thankfully, but in general, the human organism is degenerating. Our society is becoming worse. As much as we invent, as much as we theorize, suffering is increasing. The complications of life are becoming more complex. Our environment is struggling to stay afloat. Our human population is consuming itself with hatred, with fear, and with the fires of passion.

Within the sexual center resides the power to change that. That power is called kundalini. In the Bible, it is called the Holy Spirit. This is a sexual fire. The transmuted energy of that center made pure and harnessed by will can purify the mind, clean the mind of the ego, and resolve the equation of life. This is the divine fire that forms the halo over any angel, that rests over the heads of the Apostles, the fire in the face of the prophet, the creative fire that inspires the master artists and composers, the fire that fuels the music of Beethoven.

http://gnosticteachings.org/images/stories/bible/pentecost.jpg http://www.trustedtarot.com/img/cards/ace-of-cups.png

oops, that tarot card, I wonder how it got itself into the mix of the creation process...

But unfortunately, our five centers are infected with a disease: the disease of the "I" - the ego. That "I," that ego, must be removed, must be cleansed from the psyche in order for that divine fire to have its full expression. And fortunately, it is that divine fire itself which provides the means to do it. When the sexual energy is controlled and transformed by conscious will, that energy can be directed, focused, controlled. It is that capacity that gives us the power to conquer desire, to conquer the ego.

At the moment, our consciousness is trapped inside the ego. We are constantly buffeted with desires: in the intellect, in the emotional center, in the sexual center. And we willingly remain enslaved to those things.

Some spiritually-minded people enter into the process of trying to control the mind, to calm the mind, to work on the ego. They learn meditation, they learn mindfulness. But, after some time, even though they may have experienced some moments of peace, they find that their fundamental tendencies or problems remain just as strong. This is because meditation or mindfulness alone cannot destroy the ego. The only way to completely eradicate the ego is by harnessing the sexual fire, by harnessing that divine power. This is the fire of Shakti, of Tuumo, the Divine Mother, the great wisdom-force, which is the power of Athena, of Minerva, the goddess.

To successfully accomplish this kind of radical psychological change, we first need to learn about how our own psyche functions, because no element can be removed from our mind until we have understood it.

If you wish to untie a knot, you must first know how it was tied. - Buddha

We cannot become free of a mistake until we have understood the mistake, until we have comprehended why it is a mistake.

Psychic Influences <-- now you may want to pay attention to what it is said about 'casting out the demons' somewhere in the text to follow...

Each of these five centers is always receiving and transforming influences. There are two great sources for these influences that we need to be immediately concerned with.

The first are all the radiations that are entering into us from outside, all the influences that are affecting us from outside the organism. These radiations or energetic influences arrive from a variety of sources. The most widespread and difficult to perceive are cosmic. These are radiations that arrive to our planet from other stellar bodies, which exercise an influence over our psyches.

We know that the Moon in its movement influences all manner of processes on the Earth: the tides, gestation, conception, and menstruation. When we consider that the physical body is comprised mostly of water, then we can see that the same way the Moon affects the oceans, it also affects the body. Unfortunately, we are so asleep that we are not aware of that influence.

But it is not simply the Moon that affects us. The movement of other stellar bodies radiates energies that influence our psyche. This is why we have one of the most ancient sciences of our entire humanity, which is astrology, which unfortunately, in these times, has lost its true use or function, which is to help us be aware of stellar influences so that we can establish control of ourselves. Nowadays, it is usually used for fortunetelling, or to give us an excuse for our bad habits.

According to the Gnostic teachings, we can see that humanity in its collective mind is moved about by some of these cosmic influences. The great world wars were partly due to karma, but also influenced by these stellar forces, which moved the human beings to become crazy, to become maddened, and to enter into war - to kill each other, and to have all kinds of elaborate justifications for their brutality.

On the other hand, the powerful interest in spirituality and sexuality that began in the sixties and continues to deepen is due to the influence of Aquarius. This is a powerful force that, if received consciously and carefully, can revolutionize our entire being. But if it is received mechanically and by our desires, it will destroy us.

http://gnosticteachings.org/images/stories/astrology/aquarius.jpg http://365daysoftarot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/maj17.jpg
again, that tarot, it just gets itself everywhere... :P
But do notice the force represented as a female.
I wonder why.
May be because the sexual force is a 'female' one? Eve (the force) tempting Adam (the brain?). Interesting.

The second influence is the ego, the "I." Once again, we remain asleep, unconscious, unaware of how our ego stimulates our movements, our thoughts, our feelings. Really, the purpose of these studies is to become conscious of what we are unconscious of. In other words, we seek to make the unconsciousness conscious.

As we are now, we don't really, truthfully know why we do most of what we do. Much of the time, the type of job that we do, the type of education we receive, the type of friends that we have, are all motivated by certain unconscious causes about which we ignore. Life just happens to us, and we find keep finding ourselves in places we did not intend to go.

We do all kinds of things in life that in our hearts we don't really want to do. But we do them because of all these influences from the ego. Maybe we want to be accepted, maybe we want others to admire us. Maybe we want respect. Maybe we want power. But of course, the most powerful motivation is sexual. Much of what we do in fact, perhaps all, is motivated by the desire for sex, or sexual fulfillment. We have these mistaken notions that if we dress a certain way, have a certain level of education and a certain amount of money in the bank, we will sexually attractive. If we have a certain type of body, or wear a certain hairstyle, then we will be sexually attractive. Or if we have a certain level of education, or a certain accent.

We mistakenly believe many things like this, so we live our lives trying to acquire them. This is why people have plastic surgery, and this is why we live like rats in a cage, trying to acquire certain positions in society, or in business, completely enslaved by desires that we don't even see in our own minds. All of these influences make us very foolish, because they constantly change.

The problem with the ego is that, not only does it produce suffering and karma, but it has no individuality, no consistent will. This is why on one day, when affected by particular influences - both environmental and psychological - and a particular ego is brought to the front, we believe we are in love with a person. We feel so much love in our heart, and we feel it in our thoughts, and in our body, and we feel it sexually. But later, a different "I" comes to the front, and suddenly we hate that person, we abhor them - they disgust us. And later, maybe a different "I" comes and we feel indifferent, we don't care about them at all. It is this form of inconsistency that gives us the clue, or the doorway through which we can see that the "I" is not one I, but many "I's."

In the Bible, its name is "Legion." In the Gospels, Jesus encounters a possessed man who says "My name is Legion." This story symbolizes how we are possessed by a legion of "I's," a legion of desires: all the egos that surge in our psyche, buffeted and summoned by influences, both internal and external.

We can see this as well when we come around certain types of people. When alone, we may not feel the urge to drink. However, if we have friends who drink, and we are around them, that urge arises very strongly, and we find that we want to drink. This shows how the influence of the psyche of those friends calls up from our own submerged depths that desire for intoxication, or the desire to be included and respected. And then, later, when we are away from those friends, that desire goes away, and we no longer see it. It is still there, in the depths of the mind, but it is submerged.

http://gnosticteachings.org/images/stories/bible/jesus-and-the-lunatic.gif

Yes, Christ (you may even loose the Jesus part) as in Christ consciousness, casting out the 'demons' as in the children of the 'ego' or 'desire'.
But that, I think, would mean that we basically need to get going on some serious work inside our minds... or did we take the Bible story all too literary? -- note done by the Lynx

We find that being in certain environments, in one neighborhood or a given city, or in the country, entirely different elements emerge from within the mind. If you go to a bar, certain elements in your mind are brought up by that influence. If you to a church, totally different elements arise. If you go to a shopping mall, an entire new range of "I's" will emerge from the subconscious, called out by that influence. If you watch certain television shows, or certain movies, or read certain books, each one will stimulate and bring up different "I's."

In every case, these "I's" trap energy, they trap consciousness, and they push the human machine to feed the "I," to make the "I" stronger.

When alone, we may not feel any desire for money, but if we come in close contact with a rich person, that desire will be stimulated. That urge to work hard, to make money, will come up very strong. It is not necessarily our will, but the will of that "I," that ego. So long as we remain exposed to that environmental influence, and so long as we continue to feed that "I," it will get stronger, it will feed itself through the human machine so that particular "I" can dominate the machine more and more. The end result is that we give up our own will. We give up our right to live responsibly.

Therefore, the purpose of this type of teaching is to learn how to eliminate this legion. We want to free ourselves from the psychological slavery that we live within. We want to liberate our will from desire so that we can act freely, responsibly - consciously - for the benefit of all. We want to renounce selfish desire so we can comprehend and become conscious of how to benefit others.

Therefore, it is important for us to deeply study the "I", to become cognizant of ourselves, our decisions, to learn how to consciously control the five centers of our machine, and to consciously direct the forces of sex in order to dominate the rest of the centers. So in turn, we need to learn about these centers and how they function. We need to learn about ourselves, become conscious of ourselves. We need to be self-observant.

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And if you really liked that article so far, you may want to finish reading it here (http://gnosticteachings.org/courses/beginning-here-and-now/650-the-human-machine.html).

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THE ANATOMY OF LOVE
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That which is Above is like that which is Below
and that which is Below is like that which is Above,
to accomplish the Miracle of Unity

Or as above so below and as within so without

chocolate

22nd March 2014, 10:25

WHITE TARA: The Divine Mother from buddhism
http://www.exoticindia.com/buddha/tc02.jpg

or

DURGA THE DIVINE MOTHER from Hinduism
http://www.shreemaa.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/gallery-durga-mandir-8-500x556px.jpg

or

ISIS from EGYPT
http://www.bankingtech.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/94/files/2013/11/isis-drawing2-Egyptian-goddess.jpg http://www.earthpm.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/isis11.jpg

and this, all of a sudden!
from Beginning Here and Now: Nature and the Divine Mother
http://gnosticteachings.org/courses/beginning-here-and-now/1651-nature-and-the-divine-mother.html
http://gnosticteachings.org/images/stories/divinemother/gaia.jpg
http://gnosticteachings.org/images/stories/anatomy/594.jpg

"Oh mother Gaia, of Gods and men the source, endowed with fertile, all-destroying force; all-parent, bounding, whose prolific powers produce a store of beauteous fruits and flowers.
"All-various maid, the immortal world’s strong base, eternal, blessed, crowned with every grace; from whose wide womb as from an endless root, fruits many-formed, mature, and grateful shoot.
"Deep-bosomed, blessed, pleased with grassy plains, sweet to the smell, and with prolific rains.
"All-flowery Daimon, centre of the world, around thy orb the beauteous stars are hurled with rapid whirl, eternal and divine, whose frames with matchless skill and wisdom shine.
"Come, blessed Goddess, listen to my prayer, and make increase of fruits thy constant care; with fertile seasons in thy train draw near, and with propitious mind thy suppliants hear." - Orphic Hymn 26 to Ge, C3rd B.C. to 2nd A.D.

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Let me ask also Santos to make a few points here, too.
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This Science of 'as above so below' is the most ancient universal system of harmonizing man with his natural surrounds! The stars above and the stars below, i.e.: our own bodies. Mankind is in harmony with Nature only when he realizes that he is the microcosm of the Universe and a Galaxy unto himself.

chocolate

22nd March 2014, 10:32

So as you know, there is a milk chocolate, and there is some pretty intense, or dark chocolate.
I guess that would be the extend of intense-ness of which chocolate would be getting here.
But I do hope you get to eat from that apple.
It is pure science (as of today),
mixed together with some spiritual (ancient) teachings
and some take on astrology and the tarot added to improve the taste.

I like my dishes well-made, and delicious, and I do not follow much restrictive rules related to the cooking.

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The greatest challenge in life is discovering who you are...
The second greatest is being happy with what you find.

hence my efforts here

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Cheers.

:)

chocolate

22nd March 2014, 13:06

Now, this thread wouldn't be fair if it doesn't mention Itzhak Bentov, recently the main point of a thread here (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69582-From-Atom-to-Cosmos--Itzhak-Bentov-&p=811426#post811426):

Where science and spirituality meet indeed...

The following video was first brought to my attention elsewhere by Finefeather last year, but I felt it deserved its own thread. On that note; many thanks to Finefeather for sharing this remarkable gem.

The first ~20 minutes features an interview with Itzhak Bentov himself, and the remainder is dedicated to a summary/presentation of his work and theories. It covers consciousness, perceptual reality, particle physics, and much more.

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Many of you will undoubtedly be familiar with several of the concepts, but I daresay there are at least a few insights along the way which will be new (unless of course you have seen this already, or read his books). At any rate, I'd welcome personal thoughts and feedback from you all relating to any facet of the content.

A bit of a disclaimer, issued by the presenter following the interview portion which, IMO, is indicative of a wise and thoughtful approach by Mr. Bentov (paraphrasing);

"...whenever he talked about these matters, he never claimed this to be any sort of ultimate teaching. He spoke about this as a working model. He would say; 'I speak from my present level of ignorance.'"

Also, although there are many potentially valuable nuggets of wisdom along the way, my favorite quote is:

"Love is the glue of the universe".

Things get really wild (yet amazing) when she delves into Itzhak's ideas regarding the modular structure of both consciousness and the cosmos (starting at around the 1 hr 20 min mark). Personally, given the immense and near-inconceivable nature of what he was attempting to describe, I doubt all of his conclusions about the broadest/deepest realities (given at the very end) are cut and dry or absolute fact. Still, it is truly quite fascinating.

I look forward to hearing any input you guys might have.

Be well, and enjoy. :)

Be well, and enjoy.
:)

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And I will snip-cross post here:

Some would say
'as below so above',
or was it the other way around :)

Thank you Freed Fox!

* So than, I should be considered as a very 'spiritual' chocolate. *

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I decided to share this information here, hope you don't mind? -->

The First Org Chart Ever Made Is a Masterpiece of Data Design
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Look at most of organizational charts today and you’ll see the standard top-down pyramid flowing linearly from the big dog down to lower-level managers and minions. But the first modern-day organizational chart wasn’t made to remind lower-level employees who they really work for. No, one of the first company-wide organizational charts was actually a 19th century invention of necessity.

Back in the mid-1800s, the Erie Railroad was a thriving but disorganized company responsible for transporting goods throughout the Northeast. The railroad company had more than 500 miles of track, making it one of the largest of its time. This was good for business, but bad for organization.

Today we deal with inconceivably large amounts of data that is made comprehensible only by modern technology. Back in the 19th century, big data meant something entirely different, but managing it was as vital then as it is today.
http://www.wired.com/design/2014/03/stunningly-complex-organization-chart-19th-century/

https://scontent-a-fra.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/t1.0-9/p600x600/1977100_731940893512637_1254729885_n.jpg

Ahnung-quay

22nd March 2014, 13:19

A note on the lynx- If you are ever blessed to hear one, you will think that you have heard a human baby crying.

chocolate

22nd March 2014, 13:59

I have a somewhat close relationship with animals, and I will be ever grateful if I could meet a real lynx.
Thank you!
( I learn new things every single minute )
:)

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I have come back here mostly to continue my never ending story.

So why did a lynx wandered in the area of astronomy, physics, biology, ancient mysticism and religion, and how all of the above mentioned related to the story at hand?

Well, to start to answer, I have to post this article first:

Society Is Doomed, Scientists Claim
you can read it in full HERE (http://www.livescience.com/44171-society-civilization-collapse-study.html)

But how, exactly, do powerful empires collapse, and why? Researchers now believe they've found an answer, one that has troubling implications for today — because we're clearly on the road to ruin.

Societal collapse — more common than you think

The researchers' first task was overturning "the common impression that societal collapse is rare, or even largely fictional," as they wrote in their report, to be published in the journal Ecological Economics.

In fact, they argue, the rise and fall of great social structures is so common a theme in human civilization — recurrent throughout history and worldwide in scope — that it's more the rule than the exception.

Most studies of a society's collapse have looked at the specifics of how one civilization declined, citing individual causes such as a disaster (earthquake, flood), loss of resources (soil erosion, deforestation) or human conflict (war, uprising) that led to the particular society's downfall.

But the researchers (funded in part by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and the University of Maryland, College Park) cast a wider net. They aimed to create a useful mathematical model that could help analyze how any society might fall — including our current global, technically advanced, interconnected society.

The balance of nature

The model they arrived at takes inspiration from the classic notion of predator vs. prey, sometimes referred to as the "balance of nature." When a deer population grows, for instance, the wolves that feed on those deer reproduce more successfully, too, and so the wolf population grows.

Everything is fine until the wolves become too numerous and overreach, eating so many deer that there isn't enough venison to go around. Then, as the number of deer plunges, the wolf population drops due to famine, until equilibrium is reestablished and the cycle begins anew.

Informed by this paradigm, the researchers developed a relatively simple formula with four factors influencing social collapse: nature and natural resources, the accumulation of wealth, the elite and the commoners. The team calls their model Human And Nature Dynamics, or HANDY.

A HANDY tool

The researchers used the HANDY model to analyze three different social scenarios: an egalitarian society with no elite class; an equitable society with workers and non-workers (students, retirees, disabled persons); and an unequal society with a robust class of elites.

The egalitarian and equitable societies could produce a sustainable civilization and avoid collapse, even with a high ratio of non-workers. Social collapse was more likely after people overreached and depleted natural resources. Importantly, even without any social stratification, collapse could occur if a society exhausted its natural resources.

In the unequal society, however, collapse was almost unavoidable — and these were the HANDY scenarios that mirrored our current globalized society.

The income gap

"The scenarios most closely reflecting the reality of our world today are found in the third group of experiments, where we introduced economic stratification," the researchers wrote, referring to uneven wealth distribution. "Under such conditions, we find that collapse is difficult to avoid."

Other recent research backs up the authors' claims: A 2012 study from the journal American Sociological Review shows that the income share of the top 1 percent of Americans grew rapidly after 1980 — from 10 percent in 1981 to 23.5 percent in 2007, an increase of 135 percentage points.

Meanwhile, the bottom three-quarters of the U.S. population has seen slow economic growth, with predictable results: A 2011 study published in the journal Psychological Science found that happiness, trust in others and life satisfaction plummet when income inequality is high.

Technology won't save you

For those who believe that there must be a technological fix to all this despair and destruction, the researchers found that the historical record provides "testimony to the fact that advanced, sophisticated, complex and creative civilizations can be both fragile and impermanent.

"It may be reasonable to believe that modern civilization, armed with its greater technological capacity, scientific knowledge and energy resources, will be able to survive and endure whatever crises historical societies succumbed to," the authors wrote.

"But the brief overview of collapses demonstrates not only the ubiquity of the phenomenon, but also the extent to which advanced, complex and powerful societies are susceptible to collapse."

Not all is lost, however: Societies can moderate the two factors that contribute most to social meltdown: the exploitation of natural resources and the uneven distribution of wealth, the researchers said.

"Collapse can be avoided and population can reach equilibrium if the per-capita rate of depletion of nature is reduced to a sustainable level, and if resources are distributed in a reasonably equitable fashion," they wrote.

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I will only add that all of the above would be true if we were to manage to find a way inside of us from where we could act in accordance to the basic principals of life, in a constructive, rather than destructive way.

And not to forget THE LOVE, as in the real understanding of life,
and compassion, in practice rather than simply as coming out of the books, or based on pure theory.

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If anyone watched the video (http://youtu.be/A3at1K-SzCk) I posted about what we can learn from Japan, one might have noticed the close relationship between philosophy and tradition, and the way Japan utilizes its resources, creates new technology, and lives in balance with the severe expression of Nature.

In a way we can learn a few ( or a bit more ) basic principles of how to better understand and use our surroundings, if we were to hope for some brighter future ahead of us.

From my perspective, working mostly in the area of building and Architecture, it is common sense and basic knowledge to create New learning from the past, and also learning from what exists around.
And instead of trying to override the laws and expressions of Nature, we simply can recognize them for what they are, why they are, and use that knowledge in the building of the future, whatever that might become.

Instead of fixating on one technology, or just the new technology, materials, ideology, or on our own 'importance' in the overall process, we can learn to dynamically adapt to every new place and every new situation.
That is what is called Vernacular Architecture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernacular_architecture), or Organic Architecture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_architecture), and can be applied not just to the building process, but to all aspects of life, if understood correctly and fully.

For some reference and for ease of understanding of these concepts I will post a few videos in the following days. They can be used for pure pleasure, and they can be used for some practical application afterwards.

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chocolate

22nd March 2014, 15:16

https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/t31.0-8/p600x600/10001140_10151917056666150_1616105362_o.jpg
Oh, just so that I am completely literal here, that is a lynx bored to sleep.

And since animals are sensitive creatures, I am planning on a very long pause from this thread.

Not that so many people do read it, at present, but even if it were at least one to benefit from it, would be enough.
I can't imagine, friends, if I were to bring the heavy material here. I never planned to, for some obvious reasons, but if I were to, the place would be completely desolate in the span of 2 minutes.

Cheers.
It's so funny...

:)

chocolate

24th March 2014, 22:10

Or so it seemed at the time.

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Is it your wish, my brother, to go into solitude? Is it your wish to seek the way to yourself? Then linger a moment, and listen to me.

"He who seeks, easily gets lost. All loneliness is guilt"—thus speaks the herd. And you have long belonged to the herd. The voice of the herd will still be audible in you. And when you will say, "I no longer have a common conscience with you," it will be a lament and an agony. Behold, this agony itself was born of the common conscience, and the last glimmer of that conscience still glows on your affliction.

But do you want to go the way of your affliction, which is the way to yourself? Then show me your right and your strength to do so. Are you a new strength and a new right? A first movement? A self-propelled wheel? Can you compel the very stars to revolve around you?

Alas, there is so much lusting for the heights! There are so many convulsions of the ambitious. Show me that you are not one of the lustful and ambitious.

Alas, there are so many great thoughts which do no more than a bellows: they puff up and make emptier.

You call yourself free? Your dominant thought I want to hear, and not that you have escaped from a yolk. Are you one of those who had the right to escape from a yoke? There are some who threw away their last value when they threw away their servitude.

Free from what? As if that mattered to Zarathustra! But your eyes should tell me brightly: free for what?

Can you give yourself your own evil and your own good and hang your own will over yourself as a law? Can you be your own judge and avenger of your law? Terrible it is to be alone with the judge and avenger of one's own law. Thus is a star thrown out into the void and into the icy breath of solitude. Today you are still suffering from the many, being one: today your courage and your hopes are still whole. But the time will come when solitude will make you weary, when your pride will double up, and your courage gnash its teeth. And you will cry, "I am alone!" The time will come when that which seems high to you will no longer be in sight, and that which seems low will be all-too-near; even what seems sublime to you will frighten you like a ghost. And you will cry, "All is false!"

There are feelings which want to kill the lonely; and if they do not succeed, well, then they themselves must die. But are you capable of this—to be a murderer?

My brother, do you know the word "contempt" yet? And the agony of your justice—being just to those who despise you? You force many to relearn about you; they charge it bitterly against you. You came close to them and yet passed by; that they will never forgive. You pass over and beyond them: but the higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.

"How would you be just to me?" you must say. "I choose injustice as my proper lot." Injustice and filth they throw after the lonely one: but, my brother, if you would be a star, you must not shine less for them because of that.

And beware of the good and the just! They like to crucify those who invent their own virtue for themselves—they hate the lonely one. Beware also of holy simplicity! Everything that is not simple it considers unholy; it also likes to play with fire—the stake. And beware also of the attacks of your love! The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters. To some people you may not give your hand, only a paw: and I desire that your paw should also have claws.

But the worst enemy you can encounter will also be you, yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caves and woods.

Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself. And your way leads past yourself and your seven devils. You will be a heretic to yourself and a witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and a villain. You must wish to consume yourself in your own flame: how could you wish to become new unless you had first become ashes!

Lonely one, you are going the way of the creator: you would create a god for yourself out of your seven devils.

Lonely one, you are going the way of the lover: yourself you love, and therefore you despise yourself, as only lovers despise. The lover would create because he despises. What does he know of love who did not have to despise precisely what he loved!

Go into your loneliness with your love and with your creation, my brother; and only much later will justice limp after you.

With my tears go into your loneliness, my brother. I love him who wants to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.

Thus spoke Zarathustra.

From Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Walter Kaufmann

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chocolate

24th March 2014, 22:40

And while I compose myself, I mean my next post, you can listen to something inspiring here:

Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action
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I hope to make this (Bill's) house only more beautiful.

Franz Liszt: Liebestraum cello and piano
oops, I meant
Richard Seymour: How beauty feels
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:)

chocolate

24th March 2014, 23:10

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Theory of Colors
(original German title Zur Farbenlehre)
by Goethe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe)

Theory of Colors is a work by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe about the poet's views on the nature of colors and how these are perceived by humans. Published in 1810, it contains some of the earliest published descriptions of phenomena such as colored shadows, refraction, and chromatic aberration.

Although Goethe's work was rejected by physicists, a number of philosophers and physicists have concerned themselves with it:
Arthur Schopenhauer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer)
Rudolf Steiner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Steiner)
Kurt Gödel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_G%C3%B6del)
Mitchell Feigenbaum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Feigenbaum)
and others. See here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Colours).

Goethe's book provides a catalogue of how color is perceived in a wide variety of circumstances, and considers Isaac Newton's observations to be special cases. Unlike Newton, Goethe's concern was not so much with the analytic treatment of color, as with the qualities of how phenomena are perceived. Philosophers have come to understand the distinction between the optical spectrum, as observed by Newton, and the phenomenon of human color perception as presented by Goethe.

At Goethe's time, it was generally acknowledged that, as Isaac Newton had shown in his Opticks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opticks) in 1704, colorless (white) light is split up into its component colors when directed through a prism.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Dispersive_Prism_Illustration.jpg
Illustration of a dispersive prism decomposing white light into the colors of the spectrum, as discovered by Newton

"Along with the rest of the world I was convinced that all the colors are contained in the light; no one had ever told me anything different, and I had never found the least cause to doubt it, because I had no further interest in the subject.
But how I was astonished, as I looked at a white wall through the prism, that it stayed white! That only where it came upon some darkened area, it showed some color, then at last, around the window sill all the colors shone... It didn't take long before I knew here was something significant about color to be brought forth, and I spoke as through an instinct out loud, that the Newtonian teachings were false." Goethe

By 1793 Goethe had formulated his arguments against Newton in the essay "Über Newtons Hypothese der diversen Refrangibilität". by 1794, Goethe had begun to increasingly note the importance of the physiological aspect of colors.

"Whereas Newton observed the color spectrum cast on a wall at a fixed distance away from the prism, Goethe observed the cast spectrum on a white card which was progressively moved away from the prism... As the card was moved away, the projected image elongated, gradually assuming an elliptical shape, and the colored images became larger, finally merging at the center to produce green. Moving the card farther led to the increase in the size of the image, until finally the spectrum described by Newton in the Opticks was produced... The image cast by the refracted beam was not fixed, but rather developed with increasing distance from the prism. Consequently, Goethe saw the particular distance chosen by Newton to prove the second proposition of the Opticks as capriciously imposed."

"The theory we set up against this begins with colorless light, and avails itself of outward conditions, to produce colored phenomena; but it concedes worth and dignity to these conditions. It does not arrogate to itself developing colors from the light, but rather seeks to prove by numberless cases that color is produced by light as well as by what stands against it."
In the preface to the Theory of Colors, Goethe explained that he tried to apply the principle of polarity, in the work – a proposition that belonged to his earliest convictions and was constitutive of his entire study of nature.

Goethe's theory of the origin of the spectrum isn't a theory of its origin that has proved unsatisfactory; it is really not a theory at all. Nothing can be predicted by means of it. It is, rather, a vague schematic outline, of the sort we find in James's psychology. There is no experimentum crucis for Goethe's theory of color.
It is hard to present Goethe's "theory", since he refrains from setting up any actual theory; he says, "its intention is to portray rather than explain". Instead of setting up models and explanations, Goethe collected specimens. Instead of narrowing and isolating things to a single 'experimentum crucius' (or critical experiment that would prove or disprove his theory), he sought to gain as much breadth for his understanding as possible by developing a wide range of interrogations through which he would reveal the essential character of color — without having to resort to explanations and theories about perceived phenomena such as 'wavelengths' or 'particles'.

To stay true to the perception without resort to explanation was the essence of Goethe's method. What he provided was really not so much a theory, as a rational description of colour. For Goethe, "the highest is to understand that all fact is really theory.

Light and darkness

Goethe didn't see darkness as an absence of light, but rather as polar to and interacting with light; color resulted from this interaction of light and shadow. For Goethe,

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LIGHT IS the simplest most undivided most homogenous being that we know. Confronting it is the darkness.
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"...they maintained that shade is a part of light. It sounds absurd when I express it; but so it is: for they said that colors, which are shadow and the result of shade, are light itself." Johann Eckermann

Based on his experiments with turbid media, Goethe characterized color as arising from the dynamic interplay of darkness and light.
Rudolf Steiner, the science editor for the Kurschner edition of Goethe's works, gave the following analogy:

"Modern natural science sees darkness as a complete nothingness. According to this view, the light which streams into a dark space has no resistance from the darkness to overcome. Goethe pictures to himself that light and darkness relate to each other like the north and south pole of a magnet. The darkness can weaken the light in its working power. Conversely, the light can limit the energy of the darkness. In both cases color arises.
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Goethe expresses this more succinctly:
Yellow is a light which has been dampened by darkness; Blue is a darkness weakened by light.
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Goethe's studies of color began with experiments which examined the effects of turbid media, such as air, dust, and moisture on the perception of light and dark. The poet observed that light seen through a turbid medium appears yellow, and darkness seen through an illuminated medium appears blue.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Goethe-LightSpectrum.svg/1200px-Goethe-LightSpectrum.svg.png

BUT HOW ABOUT THAT: (just check the second, or the third, spectrum image from the left)
http://joankaylor.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/chakras.jpg

?
I told you it was funny...

The highest degree of light, such as that of the sun... is for the most part colorless. This light, however, seen through a medium but very slightly thickened, appears to us yellow. If the density of such a medium be increased, or if its volume become greater, we shall see the light gradually assume a yellow-red hue, which at last deepens to a ruby color. If on the other hand darkness is seen through a semi-transparent medium, which is itself illumined by a light striking on it, a blue color appears: this becomes lighter and paler as the density of the medium is increased, but on the contrary appears darker and deeper the more transparent the medium becomes: in the least degree of dimness short of absolute transparence, always supposing a perfectly colorless medium, this deep blue approaches the most beautiful violet.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f8/Prisma-goethe.gif

End of part one.

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chocolate

24th March 2014, 23:26

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chocolate

24th March 2014, 23:39

"One of the misconceptions that people have about spirituality is that all spiritually is essentially the same and leads to the same place. This is an illusion propagated by the ego; it is a bold lie. It is the same as saying all maps lead to the same place, when clearly they do not. A map is specific; it can only lead to the place it illustrates. Religions are exactly the same. If a religion is incomplete or flawed, it will lead you nowhere. If you have never been to the place you want to go, you will have no idea that the map is wrong. If you have never seen God face to face, how can you know that your chosen spirituality will lead you to that experience? Are you willing to risk your soul on a theory or interpretation invented by modern people? Wouldn't it be better to rely on a teaching that can be proven through your own experience?

Knowledge and comprehension are different. Knowledge is of the mind. Comprehension is of the heart." - Samael Aun Weor

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That above is an image I took few months ago, which so happens to show LIGHT going through a turbid medium (my coffee) and falling onto the darkness of the SHADOW of the cup itself, standing in the way of the LIGHT.
(Yes, God, with his funny sense of humor, is a persistent creature. She just never gives up on me, for which I am thankful.)

Which just comes to show you, there is nothing evil or wrong in the shadow
(meaning even in your 'shadow self')
for both LIGHT and DARKNESS exists in an inseparable union,
just as the

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Yin_and_Yang.svg/375px-Yin_and_Yang.svg.png

the "Yin and Yang" symbol of Taoism.

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I hope that was helpful.

And you may find this film also quite appropriate for the theme of my recent thoughts:

hc5Bt5-vOsQ

Cheers,
One curious wild cat

PS.
Don't be shy to say "Thank you", if that is to be the custom of the house!

Shezbeth

25th March 2014, 00:39

I can't imagine, friends, if I were to bring the heavy material here. I never planned to, for some obvious reasons, but if I were to, the place would be completely desolate in the span of 2 minutes.

Neither fret nor despair; There are those - myself included - who are often too persnickety to hit the thank button all the time (often due to the particular train of thought/reality being experienced) who are none the less observing and appreciating this thread (not exclusively, but particularly) with rapt attention. In particular, I greatly appreciate many of the diagrams and pictures you present. In some cases (the blue drawings of the progression of rotation resulting from diametrically opposed activity existing on multiple dimensional planes in particular) they are the direct response to inquiries I have recently undertaken and in others (the toroid field images) are consistent with many observations, understandings, and realizations I regard as significant. My current Avatar is - among other things - representative of such a field and in many ways identical or comparable to the religious imagery you have posted. I'm not tooting my own horn, just saying that in many ways I agree with what you are saying, and any lack of agreement is NOT DISagreement.

That I haven't responded thus far is an expression of (as yet) my perceived inability to add anything particularly substantive to the thread, NOT through any apathy, disregard, disinterest, or lack of consumption/digestion of the material. In fact, many of the images you have posted are now part of my own collection, and many if the ideas you have expressed are likewise added and/or complimenting my own perception.

Simply, I am applauding you with a golf-clap (sorry if it has been too soft) and FWIW, I likes me some Chocolate. :hug: :clap2:

Edit: Since I've begun, I might as well continue.

The Avatar image is one which I 'experienced' at several points in my material, intellectual, and metaphysical research/activity. It was described to me as "The Metaform": 'the inherent shape of all things whether physical (atomic, cellular, etc.), energetic/EM, particle/waveform and all things in between at a fundamental level. The first time I saw it (obviously that is a crude representation) I could see nothing else and to this day I can 'conjure' to mind the experience of seeing it and nothing else (but without the sensation,... that WAS something else but in a different sense); The experience is/was without comparison.

It was in attempting to more adequately depict the metaform that I began the inquiry of how to represent multiple shapes and directions of rotation previously mentioned as being 'answered' by your blue diagrams.

chocolate

25th March 2014, 20:28

I usually neither fret nor despair. Where I come from, I am only at the position of sharing what I already know, and have known for some time.

I happened to be reading Goethe for a week or so, and I was amazed as to how close he had been to revealing this world's secret. But since only few people know the base of my view point, I guess my attempt to reawaken some interest for the past may be seen as a bit odd.

But what I do like is (from time to time) to make some fun, and joke with the situation. No disrespect what-so-ever. After all, we are all having a certain level of monologue, even if disguised as a dialogue, on places such as a forum.

The current stream of thinking only reminded me of a quote I like from Alan Watts
(I might as well write it down here, tucked away neatly):

"He (in my case She) sees everybody around him (her) looking dreadfully serious, looking as if they had a problem, looking as if the act of living were extremely difficult. But from his (hers) standpoint - the person's who had this experience - (s)he feels that they look funny, that they don't understand that there isn't any problem at all. That (s)he has seen, from where (s)he stands, that the meaning of being alive is just being alive. That is to say, I look at the colour of your hair and the shape of your eyebrow, and I understand that that is the point. That's what we're all here for. And it's so plain, it's so obvious and so simple. And yet here is everybody rushing around in a great panic, as if it were necessary for them to achieve something beyond all that. And the funny thing is that they're not quite sure what it is, but they are devilishly intent upon it; after that thing. And so to the person in that state of consciousness, which I call mystical, that all seems very weird, very absurd. But it's not something that you criticize in an unkindly way. You don't say: 'Those damn fools! Those idiots!' You say: 'It's such a pity that they don't see it'..."

:)

Don't misunderstand my effort, I need no followers nor people to agree with what I write, or say. I am quite far away from that idea.
I know exactly who reads here, and why.
But I do all of this from the kindness of my heart. And, as I mentioned earlier, for some personal amusement.

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So now, why I am doing it actually?

One way to answer this would be to point at this video (http://youtu.be/qp0HIF3SfI4).

And another way is to tell you a story.

The story goes something like that.
I work mostly as an architect and design stuff, like houses for example, among other things. So here comes (via internet) a businessman who needs some preliminary designs for his future summer house. We shake hands, after some conversation, and the train starts form the station. In the process of communication I learn that he admires Frank Lloyd Wright (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lloyd_Wright).
Not much surprise here, for we all ( especially architects ) do admire him.
But the problems starts when the client wants me to design a version of
Falling Water (http://www.fallingwater.org/) on a terrain that is a vertical rock-face, with 9 meters drop from the level of the road to the base level of the future house.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Fallingwater_miniature_model_at_MRRV,_Carnegie_Science_Center.JPG

According to him, quote "good artists copy, but great artists steal" ( I famous quote from Picasso ).

Funny that guy.

How can a person explain that great artists don't copy exact shapes, but copy principals?
There are a hundred thoughts I can share of why Falling Water is an achievement worth following, but none of those 100 would fit into the pre-conceived idea of that person's image of his 'dream' house.

I tried. I did several concepts, and I think at the end the client just realized that the terrain is dangerous. I think he abandoned the idea of the house because of that ( the nature of the terrain ).
But we did make an attempt to literary copy whatever.
It could have worked. I mean, I can make almost anything work, in some normal frames, but is it worth it, following ?

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All applause is much appreciate, albeit unnecessary, even if it comes in a subtle way,
*
but as long as it comes from the heart.

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Now, I am returning to my studies here.

chocolate

25th March 2014, 21:19

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Theory of Colors
by Goethe
Part 2

Here I will partially overlap information from the previous part.

Goethe observed that with a prism, color arises at light-dark edges, and the spectrum occurs where these colored edges overlap.

"The crux of his color theory is its experiential source: rather than impose theoretical statements, Goethe sought to allow light and color to be displayed in an ordered series of experiments that readers could experience for themselves."

Light and dark spectra

Since the color phenomenon relies on the adjacency of light and dark, there are two ways to produce a spectrum: with a light beam in a dark room, and with a dark beam (i.e., a shadow) in a light room.

Light and dark spectra – when colored edges overlap in a light spectrum, green results; when they overlap in a dark spectrum, purple colors result.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f8/Prisma-goethe.gif

Goethe recorded the sequence of colors projected at various distances from a prism for both cases.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Goethe-LightSpectrum.svg/1200px-Goethe-LightSpectrum.svg.png

In both cases, he found that the yellow and blue edges remain closest to the side which is light, and red and violet edges remain closest to the side which is dark. At a certain distance, these edges overlap – and we obtain Newton's spectrum. When these edges overlap in a light spectrum, green results; when they overlap in a dark spectrum, non-spectral colors are produced.
With a light spectrum, coming out of the prism, one sees a shaft of light surrounded by dark. We find yellow-red colors along the top edge, and blue-violet colors along the bottom edge. The spectrum with green in the middle arises only where the blue-violet edges overlap the yellow-red edges.
With a dark spectrum (i.e., a shadow surrounded by light), we find violet-blue along the top edge, and red-yellow along the bottom edge – where these edges overlap, we find purple-like colors.

But since the base of Goethe's theory is not the theory itself, but the observer/experiencer
(much like in today's vision of what consciousness is and where it fits the quantum physics theory)
he also paid attention to the additional psychological effects of light and color.

"When the eye sees a color it is immediately excited and it is its nature, spontaneously and of necessity, at once to produce another, which with the original color, comprehends the whole chromatic scale."

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Goethe%2C_Farbenkreis_zur_Symbolisierung_des_menschlichen_Geistes-_und_Seelenlebens%2C_1809.jpg/591px-Goethe%2C_Farbenkreis_zur_Symbolisierung_des_menschlichen_Geistes-_und_Seelenlebens%2C_1809.jpg

Goethe anticipated Ewald Hering's Opponent process (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opponent_process) theory by proposing a symmetric color wheel (see above).

"The chromatic circle... [is] arranged in a general way according to the natural order... for the colors diametrically opposed to each other in this diagram are those which reciprocally evoke each other in the eye. Thus, yellow demands violet; orange [demands] blue; purple [demands] green; and vice versa: thus... all intermediate gradations reciprocally evoke each other; the simpler color demanding the compound, and vice versa."

Modern authors praise Goethe for recognizing an importance of non-spectral (extraspectral) colors. "For Newton, only spectral colors could count as fundamental. By contrast, Goethe's more empirical approach led him to recognize the essential role of (nonspectral) magenta in a complete color circle, a role that it still has in all modern color systems."

Goethe's theory of color has a direct and important influence on the art of paining, especially when varnish is concerned (acting as a turbid medium, and able to produce variations on colors), on philosophy and science. For more on this visit Wiki.

As a catalogue of observations, Goethe's experiments probe the complexities of human color perception. Whereas Newton sought to develop a mathematical model for the behavior of light, Goethe focused on exploring how color is perceived in a wide array of conditions. Developments in understanding how the brain interprets colors.

Goethe correctly identified simultaneous contrast as a perceptual phenomenon:
“Every decided color does a certain violence to the eye and forces it to opposition.”

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/William_Turner%2C_Light_and_Colour_%28Goethe%27s_Theory%29.JPG
Light and Color (influenced by Goethe’s theory) — The Morning after the Deluge, Moses Writing the Book of Genesis, J.M.W. Turner, 1843

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The Goethean mind lives in light's refraction, not its origin.

Look through the prism. The stronger the edges of lightness and darkness, the brighter the colours. Goethe's pure colors, yellow and blue, are usually seen at the edges of the prism. But not all edges show colour. Colors are only apparent on edges parallel to the prism's axis.

Goethe's triangular color model, in which the triangle represents the human mind, betrays and illustrates a psycho-physical realization: When the mind seeks to eliminate darkness and light, when one strives to be purely neutral, rational, the cost is a loss of brightness and shadow. Without confrontation, without strife, there is no darkness. Without darkness, there is no hunger to bathe in the light. Without light, there is no harmony.

http://www.jaimetreadwell.com/color-lecture-01.jpg

http://www.russianpaintings.net/articleimg/color_vision_and_art/goethe-shadow-diagram-01B.jpg
The relationship between colors and their opposites, In this case, the apparent "color" of the shadow.

See some more here:

Color Mixing and Goethe's Triangle
Color Models (http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs092/VA10/HTML/ColorModels.html)
Color vision (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_vision)

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Because of the breadth of his thought, his comprehension of human nature and optimistic faith in the human spirit, and his intuitive grasp of universal truths, Goethe is regarded by many as the outstanding poet of the modern world. He died March 22, 1832, but his work lives in its meaning and value for the modern day people.

chocolate

25th March 2014, 21:24

Invisible: Photo of a landscape no human can ever see (http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129611.200-invisible-photo-of-a-landscape-no-human-can-ever-#.UzHzPIR_iPo)

http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/mg22129611.200/mg22129611.200-1_1200.jpg

YOU are looking at a colour no one can see. If you visited these grassy fields in Nepal's Annapurna Himalayan range, as New York-based photographer Sean Lynch did, they would look bright green. Crucially, though, they also reflect near-infrared light, which lies just beyond the range our eyes can sense. The fuchsia colour in Lynch's photo is created when this invisible light hits a special dye in the photographic film. "None of us will ever actually experience this 'colour'," says Paul Lucey, a geophysicist at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu.

Fields like these are a great way to showcase this imaging technique because plants reflect infrared light especially well. They do this for the same reason they shun green light: to make photosynthesis, which prefers blue and red light, as efficient as possible.

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Invisible: The high-vis trick that blinds the eye (http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129610.800-invisible-the-highvis-trick-that-blinds-the-eye.html)

http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/mg22129610.800/mg22129610.800-1_1200.jpg
The best-hidden creatures wear high-vis outfits

For animals like zebras, being conspicuous is the best way to avoid becoming dinner. New research shows how it helps soldiers and citizens hide in plain sight

TO BECOME invisible, first make yourself conspicuous. It sounds absurd, especially once you learn that this concept was the brainchild of an eccentric American artist. Now, more than a century after it was put forward, the idea is finally being tested. The findings have revealed surprising insights into how camouflage fools – or fails to fool – the eye of the beholder.

In 1909, the prevailing belief was that animals hid themselves by matching their surroundings. Then the painter and naturalist Abbott Handerson Thayer suggested a different mechanism was at work: highly conspicuous markings, such as the zebra's stripes and the oystercatcher's black-and-white plumage, are actually disguises.

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Shezbeth

25th March 2014, 21:27

Yes, I think that I know what you mean. To be fair, I had formulated the intent to post so in advance of the physiological act and was equally responding to dispositional and circumstantial cues. Whether the individual is conscious of it or not, there is always an element of context to every action/in- . Simply, the pursuit of appreciation was never the active compellent - neither in my case nor in yours - and any appreciation that may have generated is noticed, but beside the point.

To be even more fair, also I used the opportunity for rhetorical posturing which is also beside the point, but allowed a far more artistic initial reply. This too was done regardless of its actual reception, but in consideration of its potential reception.

And to be yet still more fair, I am challenging you to bring the 'heavy' material by insinuating fret and despair. ^_~

In studying the metaform, this is one of the conclusions I have entertained; That whatever experience is being experienced by that which is experiencing must be experienced with absolute sincerity and conviction, regardless the form.

The idea that all things have a fundamental shape that is consistent if not identical is its self consistent with the numerous perceptions of the creator(s) as depicted in multitudes of spiritual/religious teaching, given a particular position of context. This perception is agreed/voiced by - in perhaps different wording - the primer field videos. As such, any activity that occurs within whatever level of expression (atomic, cellular, anatomical, individual, interpersonal, social, geographical, continental, planetary, galactic, universal,... etc, etc) would be in response to the dynamic properties of that fundamental shape on a macroscopic/microscopic level - which is consistent with the concept of 'As Above, So Below'.

In observation of context as a causal participant to whatever activity occurs - particularly that of preceding, current, and succeeding contexts - the literal concept of inevitability and the metaphorical concept of fate (esp. the 3 Fates - Clotho, Atropos, and Lachesis) seems apt.

I don't know if that mystifies or demystifies,... but clearly it was inevitable and quite natural, both regardless of and potentiating the succeeding inevitability. This is just one of the ideas I have entertained while contemplating the metaform; If inevitable, I will include more.

Please continue. ^_^

chocolate

25th March 2014, 21:33

And let's show some tricks:
Victor Vasarely (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Vasarely)
http://www.anopticalillusion.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/victor-vasarely-artwork-large-61260.jpg

http://kciarts.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Victor-Vasarely-Zebra2.jpg

and probably just to mention one film of interest:
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/MG/144308~2001-A-Space-Odyssey-Posters.jpg
with lots of 'play' of color psychology

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And that should be it, no more torture of Goethe's Theory of Color

Cheers,
:)

chocolate

26th March 2014, 00:03

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So now, after chewing on the subject of LIGHT and the 'subsequent COLOR' derived from it, or contained in it, from the point of view of science(!), I can make an attempt to sprinkle a pinch or two spirituality ( or religion, or mythology ) here.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Aten.svg/1154px-Aten.svg.png

http://www.ignitumtoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/byzantine-christ.jpg

(of course) let's add some Tarot (http://taroscopes.com/highwindowsarticles/innerzodiac.html) here, too:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/tarot/tcc/img/ugar19.jpg

The colors-
Yellow for the Light of the Sun (light dampened by darkness),
Blue for the Sky (as darkness weakened by Light),
White Horse (as the pure energy creature, and not only),
darker Yellow/Orange (for Light passing through the turbid medium of our body)

as Goethe suggested.

*
As Manly P. Hall writes in his THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES (http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/sta/sta11.htm):

The adoration of the sun was one of the earliest and most natural forms of religious expression. Complex modern theologies are merely involvements and amplifications of this simple aboriginal belief. The primitive mind, recognizing the beneficent power of the solar orb, adored it as the proxy of the Supreme Deity.
"To them [aboriginal peoples] he [the sun] was the innate fire of bodies, the fire of Nature. Author of Life, heat, and ignition, he was to them the efficient cause of all generation, for without him there was no movement, no existence, no form. He was to them immense, indivisible, imperishable, and everywhere present. It was their need of light, and of his creative energy, that was felt by all men; and nothing was more fearful to them than his absence. His beneficent influences caused his identification with the Principle of Good; and the BRAHMA of the Hindus, and MITHRAS of the Persians, and ATHOM, AMUN, PHTHA, and OSIRIS, of the Egyptians, the BEL of the Chaldeans, the ADONAI of the Phœnicians, the ADONIS and APOLLO of the Greeks, became but personifications of the Sun, the regenerating Principle, image of that fecundity which perpetuates and rejuvenates the world's existence."

THE SOLAR TRINITY

The sun, as supreme among the celestial bodies visible to the astronomers of antiquity, was assigned to the highest of the gods and became symbolic of the supreme authority of the Creator Himself. From a deep philosophic consideration of the powers and principles of the sun has come the concept of the Trinity as it is understood in the world today. The tenet of a Triune Divinity is not peculiar to Christian or Mosaic theology, but forms a conspicuous part of the dogma of the greatest religions of both ancient and modern times. The Persians, Hindus, Babylonians, and Egyptians had their Trinities. In every instance these represented the threefold form of one Supreme Intelligence. In modern Masonry, the Deity is symbolized by an equilateral triangle, its three sides representing the primary manifestations of the Eternal One who is Himself represented as a tiny flame, called by the Hebrews Yod (י). Jakob Böhme, the Teutonic mystic, calls the Trinity The Three Witnesses, by means of which the Invisible is made known to the visible, tangible universe.

The origin of the Trinity is obvious to anyone who will observe the daily manifestations of the sun. This orb, being the symbol of all Light, has three distinct phases: rising, midday, and setting. The philosophers therefore divided the life of all things into three distinct parts: growth, maturity, and decay. Between the twilight of dawn and the twilight of evening is the high noon of resplendent glory. God the Father, the Creator of the world, is symbolized by the dawn. His color is blue, because the sun rising in the morning is veiled in blue mist. God the Son he Illuminating One sent to bear witness of His Father before all the worlds, is the celestial globe at noonday, radiant and magnificent, the maned Lion of Judah, the Golden-haired Savior of the World. Yellow is His color and His power is without end. God the Holy Ghost is the sunset phase, when the orb of day, robed in flaming red, rests for a moment upon the horizon line and then vanishes into the darkness of the night to wandering the lower worlds and later rise again triumphant from the embrace of darkness.

To the Egyptians the sun was the symbol of immortality, for, while it died each night, it rose again with each ensuing dawn. Not only has the sun this diurnal activity, but it also has its annual pilgrimage, during which time it passes successively through the twelve celestial houses of the heavens, remaining in each for thirty days. Added to these it has a third path of travel, which is called the precession of the equinoxes, in which it retrogrades around the zodiac through the twelve signs at the rate of one degree every seventy-two years.

Concerning the annual passage of the sun through the twelve houses of the heavens, Robert Hewitt Brown, 32°, makes the following statement: "The Sun, as he pursued his way among these 'living creatures' of the zodiac, was said, in allegorical language, either to assume the nature of or to triumph over the sign he entered. The sun thus became a Bull in Taurus, and was worshipped as such by the Egyptians under the name of Apis, and by the Assyrians as Bel, Baal, or Bul. In Leo the sun became a Lion-slayer, Hercules, and an Archer in Sagittarius. In Pisces, the Fishes, he was a fish--Dagon, or Vishnu, the fish-god of the Philistines and Hindus."

A careful analysis of the religious systems of pagandom uncovers much evidence of the fact that its priests served the solar energy and that their Supreme Deity was in every case this Divine Light personified. Godfrey Higgins, after thirty years of inquiry into the origin of religious beliefs, is of the opinion that "All the Gods of antiquity resolved themselves into the solar fire, sometimes itself as God, or sometimes an emblem or shekinah of that higher principle, known by the name of the creative Being or God."

*
To quote Goethe:
"LIGHT IS the simplest most undivided most homogenous BEING that we know. Confronting it is the darkness."

Probably Goethe was simply a copy-cat, just like me.
:)

Please, if you want to delve into the illuminating world of the Sun, see this List of solar deities (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_deities).

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And here's Michael Tsarion, talking about ancient myth, the solar cult and some more:
bQGekPSInu8

chocolate

26th March 2014, 11:20

Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, provided madness is given us by way of divine gift. --Socrates, Phaedrus

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Mushrooms, Myth & Mithras
The Drug Cult that Civilized Europe
http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100568560

Or Entheogens and the Origin of Religion
by Ruck Hoffman González Celdrán
https://realitysandwich.com/113388/first_supper_entheogens_origin_religion/

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/t1.0-9/10154103_681277375244147_973095988_n.jpg

Combining the ancient Greek adjective entheos ("inspired, animated with deity") and the verbal root in genesis ("becoming"), it signifies "something that causes the divine to reside within one". When used in rituals, entheogens can be seen as sacramental substances whose ingestion provides a communion and shared existence between the human and the divine. In the context of ceremony and ritual, the individual becomes "at one with God."

Prior to the recent revival of interest in psychoactive plants and compounds, the need for a new word for these botanical mediators led psychiatrist Humphry Osmond to coin the term psychedelic, "to fathom Hell or soar angelic," as he described it in a letter to Aldous Huxley. Within just a few years, however, conservative backlash against the 1960s counterculture had contaminated the word with the perception of criminality, recklessness, and abuse. The term was derived from the Greek words psyche, for the "human mind, soul or spirit," and delos, "clear, manifest." In fact, early experimentation with such substances in the modern West suggested similarity with psychotic states, as implied in the coinage of psychomimetic and psychotropic.

An entheogen is any substance that, when ingested, catalyzes or generates an altered state of consciousness that is deemed to have spiritual significance. Symbolic surrogates, lacking the appropriate chemistry of psychoactive plants and compounds, may induce a similar experience through cultural indoctrination and suggestion or personal subjectivity, and could also be termed entheogens. Like shamanism itself, entheogenic spirituality is dependent upon and defined by the states of consciousness experienced. In many cultures, accessing such states is considered culturally essential to the perpetuation of a society's underlying natural and spiritual interconnection with the cosmos. Altered states of consciousness are very often considered indispensable to such core shamanic practices as diagnosis of ailments, curing, soul retrieval, and communication with deceased ancestors.

In myth, transformations of consciousness are an integral element in the basic story of the hero or heroine who encounters pathways of communication between the human and an otherwise invisible realm, and such experiences are viewed as part of the ongoing renewal of the community's spiritual well-being. These transformations even underlie the semi-shamanic philosophies of Gnosis in the ancient Classical world. Among other peoples, they ensure perpetual contact with the wisdom and benevolence of the spiritual worlds.
Generally speaking, however, the study of entheogens is a comparatively recent phenomenon, as is their recognition as a formative influence on the shaping of both shamanic and so-called developed cultures. It is now widely accepted among specialists that entheogens and the ethnopharmacology of their plant sources represent one of the most direct, powerful, reliable, and indeed ancient means of inducing "authentic" shamanic states of consciousness. Entheogens may, in fact, be the most reliable way of inducing a profound and sustained alteration of consciousness commonly associated with ecstatic, shamanic states. Hence they are at the heart of such dependable and repeatable ceremonies as initiation rituals and other religious Mysteries.

Entheogenic epiphany is commonly described as a state in which people experience their individual distinctions dissolve in a mystical, consubstantial communion with a force of profound sacred meaning. This ecstatic experience is interpreted as a pure and primal consciousness and sometimes described as the direct contact with the unobscured root of being. Since shamanic spirituality is inherently practical, it ascribes the highest importance to the regular access to such transcendental states; this point of contact ensures the undisturbed continuation of natural cycles and helps perpetually maintain a society's underlying sense of centeredness, equilibrium, and balance. From a shamanic perspective, ecstatic contact also protects against the potential dangers of unappeased or neglected gods or spirits. The entheogenic experience, though entirely strange, dissimilar, and inexplicable in mundane language, is often described as feeling more real and vibrant than ordinary consciousness.

Some of the plants used for shamanic rituals have yielded important medicines, for shamans are traditional healers, often called "wise ones." Other substances open up pathways to otherwise unseen worlds, with the spirit of the plant as guide to repair the invisible imbalance that is the cause of disease and plague. The word medicine has cognates in all the Indo-European languages and is related to meditate and middle, implying the doctor's original role as an entranced mediator.

Most probably derived from the Middle Dutch term droge vate ("dry vat"), the plants and substances employed were eventually called "drogues" in Middle English because they were usually dry when found in the apothecaries, which were also shops for poisons. The word was applied to narcotics and opiates toward the end of the nineteenth century. This has given "drug" an unfortunate pejorative connotation that dominant religious groups often use to describe substances used by other spiritual communities. Similarly pejorative is the reference to entheogenic experience as "hallucinatory," which once meant "dreamlike wandering," but it has come to imply delusion and disconnection from reality rather than a heightened access to it.

Fossils show that approximately 1.5 million years ago, a sudden and scientifically baffling development in the proto-human neocortex emerged. It has been speculated that the explosion in brain size, the prerequisite for the evolution of modern humans, occurred when our hominid ancestors began to intentionally and regularly consume consciousness-altering foods. Such an important adaptive aid would have been well suited to our "trickster" disposition for creative thinking. Thus, in keeping with the myths of old, we suggest that perhaps our species did indeed first become truly human when we first ate of those sacred Eucharistic foods-initially by individuals, and then ritualistically in groups, in what can be seen as First Suppers.

Early humanity has left compelling testimonies of its entheogenic traditions in the archaeological record. In the Shanidar cave in Iraq, there is evidence that approximately 60,000 years ago Neanderthal culture had specialized knowledge of medicinal plants and incorporated them in the burial of an apparent shaman leader.

Today shamanism is recognized as the primal and universal belief system reaching back to deepest antiquity, a practice that survives intact in many cultures around the world. Its influence on the historical emergence of Western civilization, however, has been all but ignored. Historians of Europe's debt to the Greco-Roman tradition have been largely blind to it in their own backyard, apart from admitting, for instance, that the Druids may have been shamans and that shamanism was the likely archaic, animistic religion of Paleolithic "Old Europe." Even less of a shamanic provenance is ascribed to the Classical tradition, that great fountainhead of Western civilization.

Nevertheless, there were shamans in ancient Greece and Rome, and ongoing research continues to ascribe central entheogenic elements to the most historically important and influential ancient religious rites. At first it was assumed that shamanic techniques were a foreign importation imitated by those peoples along the shores of the Black Sea in the regions of Scythia and Thrace who, in turn, would have adopted the practices from their neighbors, the Tungus people of Siberia. It was there among the Siberian tribes that shamanism was first recognized and described by Western scholarship as a priestly practice.

As early as the sixth century BCE, various Greeks are described as having magically traveled to the mythological lands of the Hyperboreans, who dwelled beyond the North Wind. Using innovative means such as the toxins of their arrows or by metamorphosis into birds, they made the journey in order to visit the god Apollo while their bodies appeared lifeless. Upon returning, these Greek priestesses and priests were believed to have the ability to banish plagues and predict earthquakes. One of these travelers is credited as the founder of Apollo's great sanctuary at Delphi. Here the god's entranced prophet was consulted even by the leaders of nations, her unquestionable validity being such that Socrates devoted his life to fathoming the meaning of her famous ironic declaration that he who knew only that he knew nothing was the wisest man in Athens. What else could one call this world-renowned priestess but a shaman? Nor was she alone; the experiences and beliefs of many important philosophers (as well as other very influential Greeks and Romans) qualify them as shamans. For example, the great mathematician Pythagoras, who lived in southern Italy, established a religious community devoted to dietary and spiritual practices, including the descent into caves that would induce the vision of the underlying mathematical relationships upon which this world of appearances is based.

We have an eyewitness to the shamanism of Pythagoras's contemporary Empedocles, as well as his entheogenic claims. Empedocles declared that he knew of all the drugs and could teach them to his initiates, for he had drunk fire from an "immortal potion" and could now calm or summon storms at his will and lead the souls of the deceased back up from Hades, the realm of the afterlife.

Such shamanic prowess is also described among the Gnostic Orphic religious communities, who claimed that their founder had a unique dietary regime and a special ecstatic "smoke" (probably referring to the inhalation of sacred incense). Orpheus, a priest of the Hyperborean Apollo, could summon beasts and was apparently considered an incarnation of his god since, upon death, he was compounded into an inebriating potion by his ecstatic female devotees while his disembodied head continued to prophesy. His devotees believed that the body (soma) was a tomb (sema), that this life was a deathlike incarnation of the soul that would be liberated upon death (as it is temporarily during ecstatic trances), judged and recycled through an astrological-planetary curriculum before reincarnating for a series of further trials on Earth. This process continues until the soul finally achieves "perfection," a condition described as a kind of a celestial actualization.

This basic shamanic idea of a detachable soul limited to Orphic doctrine underlies the literature of the Classical Age, where the soul is considered most alert and free in sleep, dreams, and trances, where it can acquire some of the knowledge it will attain upon the final liberation of death. This redemptive theology is consistent with the metaphysics of Empedocles and many other ancient models, including that of Roman Mithraism considered in the present work.

Parmenides gave an account of his soul's journey to the gateway between night and day, where he met a goddess who imparted her teaching of the Gnostic Vision. He was said to have produced the laws of his city after a vision quest in a cave. He and Pythagoras were not alone in achieving visionary knowledge.

Plato explicitly claims that his dialogues are just the preparation for a vision of the Ideal or archetype of reality that only comes after an extended regime of spiritual practices, for which he employed the famous metaphor of the Cave and a Mystery initiation. Plato, like Aristotle after him, was initiated into the venerable entheogenic Mysteries of Eleusis, the experience of which certainly colored his model of a visionary community, and the resulting revelation is thought to have deeply influenced his Doctrine of Forms.

Thus entheogenic shamanism is also at the heart of what we have come to call Greek philosophy. Sophists and philosophers were probably all shaman priests, at least in the common mind; a sophist, after all, is nothing other than a sabio or sabia. It was from such a "wise-woman," the famous Diotima, who was also adept at banishing plagues, that Socrates learned the metaphysical nature of love that he expounds in the Symposium. Aristophanes parodied Socrates as a sophist-shaman, first in Clouds, where his community of disciples was shown digging up special roots in a profanation of a Mystery initiation and hallucinating on clouds of cannabis smoke. And later, after the actual scandal of the Profanations, when certain prominent Athenians were discovered to have used the Eleusinian potion for recreational purposes at their drinking parties, he was shown in Birds again profaning the Mystery in a shamanic rite of necromancy as he summoned up spirits of the dead through the medium of an entranced companion.

As is clear from the monastic communities of "wise-men" like Pythagoras, Plato, and the Orphics, shamanism came to be practiced as a group experience. The great Eleusinian Mystery was of this type, a shamanic initiation in which participants journeyed the other world in order to experience personally the opened pathway between the realms. The psychoactive agent for the mixed potion or kykeon was derived from ergot, a fungus that grows on grains. The Mystery was enacted for nearly two millennia and most of the greatest personages of the Greco-Roman world were initiated. Cicero testified that it was the paramount contribution of Athens to the civilized world. The Eleusinian ceremony was only the best known of similar Mysteries, like that of the Kabeiroi, enacted at various other sites.

Such communal shamanism was also the basis of the maenadism of the female devotees of Dionysus. Periodically the women of the city deserted their homes for a mountain revel where they enacted herbalist rituals and induced a rapture that has become the touchstone example of ecstasy. The men induced something similar in the drinking parties or symposia, where the wine was fortified with consciousness-altering additives.

Dionysus's most enduring gift was his patronage of the theater. Drama began as a shamanic experience, with an entranced narrator evoking the spirit of a deceased ancestor from his tomb to impersonate his story. As it developed in the sixth and fifth centuries BCE in Athens, it became a communal experience of shamanic possession spreading from the actors outward to the surrounding audience. To place them in the properly receptive mind, a special vinous potion was offered throughout the several days of performances. The great playwrights themselves appear to have composed their dramas in a state of shamanic trance and possession.

The Indian and Persian Soma rites, moreover, persisted among the early Indo-European immigrants to Mesopotamia and were assimilated by Semitic and other peoples, elements being incorporated into ancient Judaism and the Egyptian Mysteries.

By the Hellenistic period, similar and derivative entheogenic rituals were well established among spiritual communities like the Therapeutai, a mystical Jewish group with such pronounced similarities to Christianity that they were once thought to be the earliest documented monastic community of the sect. From the shores of the Dead Sea, the Essene brotherhood is another group that influenced early Christian practice, being exposed to the trade routes with the Orient that facilitated the mingling of ideas between the great civilizations of Eurasia. The Persian Magi were visitors to many ancient cities, performing their shamanic rites from the Athenian marketplace to ancient Judea and beyond. Moreover, port cities like the Peiraieus of Athens and Roman Ostia had multiethnic populaces with sanctuaries of their foreign rites.

Journeying in the opposite direction, the shaman Apollonius of Tyana, a contemporary of Jesus and also declared a god, was actually initiated into a Soma rite by Brahmans in India. The Christian version of the rite was suppressed by the dominant Church or reserved for its elite, but it persisted at least as late as the seventeenth century in various Gnostic sects, notably among the followers of Mani in the East, condemned as heretical although even in Europe Manichaeism and occult Mysteries like alchemy persisted or were repeatedly reintroduced by travelers from the Holy Lands of the Middle East.

Thus, as we can see even from this cursory treatment, many of the most significant developments of Western culture were inspired by a central spiritual, ecstatic impetus that most often, if not always, included access to altered states through the use of entheogens. As Plato eloquently documented, "Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, provided madness is given us by way of divine gift."

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An additional read:
Shamanism, Mysticism, and Quantum Borders of Reality: Part 1 (http://www.lowdensitylifestyle.com/shamanism-mysticism-and-quantum-borders-of-reality-part-1/)
Part 2 (http://www.lowdensitylifestyle.com/shamanism-mysticism-and-quantum-borders-of-reality-part-2/)
Part 3 (http://www.lowdensitylifestyle.com/shamanism-mysticism-and-quantum-borders-of-reality-part-3/)

Michael Tsarion - Irish Origins of Civilization - Druidic Traditions and Influence Explored (http://www.irishoriginsofcivilization.com/)

Shamanic Healing: Why it Works (http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/Pagan-and-Earth-Based/2003/12/Shamanic-Healing-Why-It-Works.aspx?p=2)

The Shamanic Path to Quantum Consciousness: The Eight Circuits of Creative Power (http://www.amazon.com/Shamanic-Path-Quantum-Consciousness-Circuits-ebook/dp/B00HDGKYTG/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=)

Steve Richards - DREAMTIME HEALING using HOLOGRAPHIC KINETICS (http://www.holographickinetics.com/)

"I see science and mysticism as two complementary manifestations of the human mind; of its rational and intuitive faculties."
Fritjof Capra - Tao of Physics.

"Magic is any sufficiently advanced technology."
Arthur C. Clarke

"Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca 5 BC-65 AD

chocolate

26th March 2014, 11:30

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chocolate

26th March 2014, 12:13

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PHYSICS AND CONSCIOUSNESS
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Shamanism is basically the practice of contacting the "spirit world" and doing work on the dimensional and/or on a soul level. This could encompass many methods and modes of doing such. Shamans/Healers have been the corner stone of many spiritual traditions throughout the world. The roots of these ancient Healers and Priests regarded the soul and consciousness as a part of the whole cosmos. The shamanistic concept of "journeying" could be explained by as traveling through space and time dimensions to heal the soul and the person or many various other reasons depending on the culture of that healer. For many healer/shamans multidimensional traveling is a way of life. There is no distinct separation.

Science has also come to explain how "magic" of the shamans operates to some degree. A scandalous trial in London in 1877, grabbed the attention of many notable physicists. Henry Slade, a psychic from the United States, was charged with fraudulent activity. What marked this normally mundane trial of trickery is that physicists and astronomers around the world, some who won the Nobel Prize in physics, came to Slade's defense. These scientists claimed "miraculous feats" could be done by manipulating objects in the 4th dimension.

This is something shamans have been to known to do, either alter something in the physical or manifest something from "thin air". Physicists are coming close to explaining the science of the shaman.

Eventually, Henry Slade was convicted despite the help he received.

There is a well-known tenet in shamanism called the "axis mundi", the transcendental center of the worlds, designates "parallel world realities within a single universe", coexisting on each side of the "axis mundi" the axis by which our world is brought into communication with the upper and lower worlds.

In "The Nature of Shamanism" it states, "Uniformities of forms do appear to exist in our empirical universe which transgress the quanta of the human mind... falling into the domain of the Jungian 'collective unconsciousness'".

"By invoking modern physics, we can say, together with many a shaman, that all reality is only a continuum of the same spectrum. Put otherwise, reality is always in a state of Being or Existing."

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The generally accepted theory of light up until the mid-1800's, was Newton's assertion of light to be a stream of tiny particles. However, in the late 1800's, the particle picture was replaced by the wave theory of light due to the phenomena associated with light: refraction, diffraction and interference, which could only be explained using the wave picture.

This electromagnetic radiation, or light, may be viewed in one of two complementary ways: as a wave in an abstract electromagnetic field or as a stream of massless particles called photons. This is known as the wave - particle duality and is true for all particles. This duality is the basis of a indisputable quantum law in which it is a thread that runs throughout the micro and macrocosm.

Light as a wave, has a wavelength associated with it, much like an ocean wave with crests and troughs. The frequency of light is measured by counting the number of waves passing one point at a given time. The energy is merely the strength or force the wave carries.

Since all things have an energetic duality we can convert and apply this to the DNA and RNA molecules which they in fact emit their own light/energy. Science shows this and mystics spanning many beliefs and philosophies throughout history speak of this wisdom in terms of The Language of Light.

Enoch the patriarch of the Bible speaks of this language of light as waveform geometries of harmonic resonance that mimic the properties of light. The Enochian knowledge describes sonic equations, encoded within the ancient mantras and god names, capable of directly affecting the nervous system and producing profound effects of healing and higher consciousness states.

The Divine Light and Kingdom of Light references can be found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Nag Hammadi, Pistis Sophia and among the various other Egyptian, Persian and Syrian writings. The returning to the light from which we came, this merging of the light within ourselves with the Divine, is what the great Eastern Orthodox mystics called, Theosis, others call it Christ Consciousness, Nirvana, Bliss, Oneness, and Enlightenment.

The renowned yogi, Yogananda describes the universe beyond matter as being composed of indescribably subtle Light and that the material universe is composed of all the same essence. In describing a state of ecstatic joy he says, "A swelling glory within me began to envelop towns, continents, the earth, solar and stellar systems, tenuous nebulae, and floating universes...The entire cosmos...glittered within the infinitude of my being." According to yoga principles this is called Oneness with Supreme Consciousness, Ultimate Being, or God. In modern physics, this could be described as Non-Locality in the atomic sea.

The yogic science, practiced within the laboratory of human consciousness, is, in fact, the science of consciousness, which physicists such as Bohm theorize as being inseparable from, and responsible for, all reality.

Kabir Das, one of the medieval Indian saints whose compositions figure in Sikh Scripture said: "The Light of one soul is equal to that of sixteen suns." Many of his writings speak of the brilliance of Light and touches on the simplistic fundamental roots of Oneness.

The more we raise our vibrational levels, the more of this language we 'speak'. This language also carries over into stones/minerals/herbs for they have their own inherent vibrational rate. The same applies to the sacred symbols and sounds found throughout the world. Since everything in the universe emits energy we are harmonizing ourselves into resonating with the universe around us.

In some circles, multidimensional beings are called Light Beings. Also, sometimes people call themselves Light Workers, for their work with and operation out of / from the Light which is synonymous with "All That Is In The Universe". As we progress spiritually we become vibrationally altered or become "light bodied". Thus we have the aptly named physical ascension. "Light Knowledge" is also deemed the knowledge of God that seems to be a universal truth throughout the belief systems of the world. In several ancient writings Light is synonymous and equal to the dimensions and levels of Love. The differences in electromagnetic light can also be paralleled to the differences and levels of Love. Ultimately, Light is Love and all operates as One.

It is beautifully ironic that the duality of light properties seems to unlock a vast door to scientific universal principles in which the mystics and shamans have always understood.

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Carl Jung made significant progress in his theories of the soul and shamanism, on many levels. This psychologist's work on the deep aspects of the soul dawned a new age for scientific and religious thinkers. Carl Jung's depth in understanding the self and realms therein parallels the knowledge and characteristics of shamanism.

With this understanding, Carl Jung felt that no causal connection can be demonstrated between two events, but a meaningful relationship nevertheless exists between them. This direct encounter with the patterning of events in nature as a whole reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world. Jung called this principle of meaningful coincidences: "synchronicity".

Jung describes in his research into the collective unconscious that coincidences were connected in meaningful ways. Their occurrence seemed to defy the calculations of probability. Because Jung believed the phenomenon of synchronicity was connected to psychic conditions, he felt the inner and outer realities (subjective and objective) evolved through the archetypes. Jung formulated that these archetypal images belonged to a part of the unconscious not derived from personal experience. The archetypal images form the "collective unconscious". This collective is all things working in tandem indicating 'singleness of purpose', in this case, our very totality of consciousness vibrating and working as one coherent mass of energy.

We can also see archetypal images or symbols as energetic structures that create a bridge between us and the higher realities. In some unintelligible way, they connect us with the spiritual realms and the divine order that unites us all. Archetypes thus become a doorway that provides access to the experience of meaningful coincidence.

Jung's concept of synchronicity speaks of the "oneness" and interdependence of the universe. Jung states, "Peculiar interdependence of objective elements among themselves as well as with the subjective (psychic) states of the observer or observers". Jung was also heavily influenced by the "new" physics dawning which he wrote, "Physics has demonstrated...that in the realm of atomic magnitudes objective reality presupposes an observer, and that only on this condition is a satisfactory scheme of explanation possible...This means that a subjective element attaches to the physicist's world picture, and secondly that a connection necessarily exists between the psyche to be explained and the objective space-time continuum."

These discoveries confirmed what Jung recognized intuitively: that matter and consciousness are, in fact, interconnected in an essential way. Quantum theory and synchronous events along with matter and consciousness function as complementary aspects of a unified total reality.

In an essay by Gerhard Adler titled "Reflections on "Chance" and "Fate" - "This interconnectedness manifests itself in so many ways that one has to accept it as undisputable reality."

Arthur Koestler, a twentieth century philosopher, refers to the capacity of the human psyche to "act as a cosmic resonator" and in his book, "The Roots of Coincidence", presumes the "fundamental unity of all things," which transcends mechanical causality, and which relates coincidence to the "universal scheme of things."

Koestler also refers to "the universal hanging-together of things, their embeddedness in a universal matrix." Many ecologists and scientists know without a doubt, this sense of interrelation in and of the world.

The mystical concept of one universal scheme parallels the scientific theme of oneness. The relevancy of science and consciousness is immense.

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chocolate

26th March 2014, 13:03

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Gnosis: The Science of Mysticism
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Throughout the history of humanity, there have been individuals whose mission it was to act as guiding lights within the darkness of the ignorance and hatreds of humanity. These individuals have been called saviors, prophets, masters, magicians, bodhisattvas, Buddhas, arhats, and sons of man… With wise words, miracles, and esoteric written texts, these men and women have brought about changes to advance human spirituality.

I. Mysticism

We read in books that these holy individuals undertake various missions and have belonged to different eras, regions, religions, sects, secret societies, and esoteric orders; yet, there is a common and exact doctrine that is inherent within all of their works. As if there were a cosmic plan, in all races and eras, to send these enlightened messengers to work for specific missions in regards to the evolution of humanity. In his book, “Orders of the Quest,” Manly P. Hall states:

"There is an incontrovertible mass of evidence indicating the existence of initiated philosophers possessing a superior knowledge of divine and natural laws. There is also sufficient proof that these initiates were the agents of a World Fraternity or Brotherhood of Adepts that has existed from the most remote time. This overfraternity has been called the Philosophic Empire, the Great School, the College of the Holy Spirit, and the Invisible Government of the World. References to this sovereign body of “the ancient ones of the earth” occur in the sacred writings, the philosophical literature, and the mystical traditions of all races and nations of mankind.
… [we] have referred to the stream of the secret doctrine as Humanism. The term is not used in its popular sense, but to describe the grand program of the Mystery Schools for the emancipation of man from bondage to ignorance, superstition, and fear."

The true Theurgist, the mystic or prophet, is the aspect of divinity within the individual human, it is the Inner Being, the Innermost. It is the particular Inner Being of an initiate which expresses itself through the words and actions of the initiate by means of the essence or causal principle. We do not say that any individual personality is divine, no, as Samael states, “The Theurgist is more within, deeper, more profound.” (Logos Mantra Theurgy) It is not, as many fanatics believe, the personality of a saint that is divine, it is the divine within that saint that is holy. And it is here that the initiates of the Universal Lodge find real magic. Devoid of the guidance of the divine within, one can only find egotism, and thus all magic will turn black as it degenerates into darkness. Sadly this is happening to many of the psuedo-esoteric orders and religions of modern humanity. Therefore, for one to delve into the esoteric or occult mysteries, one must seek union and guidance solely from the “Lord God of Truth Within.” And this is the true meaning of Religion, as the word itself comes from the Latin Religare, which means "to unite (with the divine)." We see the same meaning in the Sanskrit word Yoga (see the book entitled “The Mysteries of the Fire - Kundalini Yoga” by Samael Aun Weor), which is the same process under the light of eastern mysticism.

Therefore, the students of Gnosticism do not follow any Gurus or teachers, save for the inner Guru, by cultivating the relationship between themselves with the divine. The true teachings of the Masters, which have come to serve humanity, are meant only to give us the means to nurture this relationship. Eliphas Levi wrote in “The Paradoxes of the Highest Science”:

"Religion is Magic sanctioned by authority".

The Wise understand what true religion is - the eternal necessity that is. For debased souls, religion is a yoke imposed by the vagaries of fear and the follies of hope. For exalted souls, religion is a force, springing from an intensified love of God and humanity.

II. Science

For thousands of years, Gnosticism has offered keys to unlock the mysteries that lay deeply hidden within the soul and it has promised one thing: objective knowledge. We do not ask the students to believe in a particular dogma. Why believe when you could know? That is why it is said that the Innermost Self-realization of the Being is our goal, but science is our method. We must be critical, attentive and determined if we are to reach such a lofty goal. Therefore, there are three esoteric sciences which have been studied since the dawn of humanity which offer the means to our goal.

Psychology

“That children do not know the reason of their desires, all the learned teachers and instructors agree. But that grownups too stumble like children on this earth, not knowing whence they come or whither they go, acting as little according to true purposes, being ruled by cakes and birch rods, no one likes to believe; yet to me it seems quite obvious.
Let us watch man in his limited sphere and see how impressions affect him, how he is obsessed by ideas, until finally growing passion robs him of any possible calmness of mind and becomes his ruin.” – Goethe! (excerpts from “The Sorrows of Young Werther”)

The term psychology is a compound word coming from the Greek words Psyche (soul) and Logos (verb). Modern psychology only goes so far as to study the mind and the egotistical self. Gnosticism delves deeply into the esoteric aspect of psychology, seeking to incorporate the understanding of the spirit and the soul in relation to the mind and the various egos.

esoteric: (Gr.) Hidden, secret. From the Greek esotericos, “inner,” concealed. (From H.P. Blavatsky’s “The Theosophical Glossary.”)

Esoteric psychology seeks to understand and eliminate the cause of suffering just as the Buddha Shakyamuni taught over 2500 years ago. In relation to this aspect of psychology, the Buddha gave to his disciples the four noble truths. In brief, the first noble truth is that all ego-centric life is suffering. The second noble truth is that desire is the cause of all suffering. The third noble truth is that to eliminate suffering, one must eliminate all desire in oneself. The fourth noble truth says to follow what is called in Buddhism “the Eightfold Path”; these are the ways in which one goes about to eliminate desire and suffering.

"Through many births I sought in vain
The builder of this House of Pain.
Now, Builder, thee I plainly see!
This is the last abode for me.
Thy gable’s yoke and rafters broke,
My heart has peace. All lust will cease."
- Buddha Shakyamuni

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Alchemy as the Science of Transformation

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Alchemy was included in the curriculum of the College of Angels, which Adam attended in Paradise before the Fall. Moses and Aaron were instructed in the mystery of transmutation by God himself, and became great adepts in the secrets of the Stone. When the angels descended to take wives from among the daughters of men, as recorded in the Book of Enoch, they revealed to mortals the precious chemistry for the regeneration of elements. - Manly P. Hall (Orders of the Great Work).

This ancient metallurgical science implies to us the notions of those who attempted to transmute base metals into gold. The word Alchemy is said to come from ancient Egypt (the land of Kem or Chem) and is a compound word containing Al, from the Arabic Allah, and kimia, a Greek term meaning "to fuse or cast a metal. Thus the true intention of Alchemy is "to fuse with God." Here we should also understand that EL (Hebrew for God) and El[o]ah (Hebrew for Goddess) is analogous to the Arabic word Allah.

This science is not one that can be taken purely at face value. The flamboyant alchemical instruments in the laboratories of the middle ages were merely used as symbolic tools to teach a secret doctrine to the initiated, so that it would not be destroyed- by the inquisition. The Keepers of the Great Arcanum have jealously guarded this science. This is the science of creation and perfection. Remember when Jesus said, “With patience ye shall possess thy soul.” And truly it is patience that one needs to perform the Magnum Opus, the Great Work. Symbolically speaking, this science is the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

"Will you with me tomorrow be content,
Faithfully to receive the Blessed Sacrament,
Upon the Oath that I shall here give,
For neither gold, nor silver, so long as you live;
Neither for love you bear toward your kin,
Nor yet to no great man, preferment to win,
That you disclose the secret I shall you teach,
Neither by writing, nor by swift speech,
But only to him, which you can be sure,
Has always searched after the secrets of Nature,
To him you may reveal the secrets of this art,
Under the cover of philosophy, before the world, you depart."
- From the manuscript “Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum”

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Kabbalah: The Universal Tree of Life (http://gnosticteachings.org/the-teachings-of-gnosis/introductory-information/43-kabbalah-the-universal-tree-of-life.html)

Alchemy and Kabbalah in the Tarot (http://gnosticteachings.org/books-by-samael-aun-weor/alchemy-and-kabbalah-in-the-tarot.html)

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III. Initiation

“Initiation is life itself, lived intensely, with rectitude and with love.” - Samael Aun Weor
Initiation is a very important aspect of Gnosticism. The Initiation process reflects the cosmos, its order, and the laws of the universe within the “lodge.” We do not give grades and degrees to the students of our institutions, like many initiatory schools; that is not necessary. The initiations are received by the soul of the student in the temples that exist in the higher dimensions of nature. The true lodge, orders, and temples exist within the astral plane, and it is in the astral plane that the inner orders meet. The Gnostic student must become proficient in the arts of meditation and astral travel to be able to attend such meetings.

Initiations are gained by the merits of the heart. The initiation expresses the evolution and development of the consciousness and the soul. To achieve these initiations, one must learn to conquer oneself and to purify the soul. It is the Innermost who gives the initiations. This purification is achieved through the comprehension and elimination of the undesirable elements within the psyche, those psychic aggregates that were referred to in the section of this leaflet entitled Psychology.

Verily, there are three factors that lead to the true initiation, which we may call here, the Revolution of the Consciousness or the Awakening of the Consciousness. These three factors are as follows:

Mystical (Alchemical) Birth

This type of birth is in relation to the forging of one’s own soul, see the section in this leaflet entitled Alchemy. Let us reflect upon the words of Jesus when he spoke to the famous Pharisee Nicodemus:
"Verily, verily I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I say unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit." - John 3:5-8

Thus, Jesus spoke this symbolism for those who have the ear to hear. This is not, as many people think, to be taken literally, but to be understood on a deeper esoteric level. And He explains that in the words he speaks there is deep symbolism, not to be taken at face value:
"We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness." - John 3:11

Mystical (Psychological) Death

This refers to the dying of one’s egos or psychological I’s. This is the path that the serious Gnostic student takes to pay the Karma that one owes and to crucify one’s own desires, defects, and vices. By defects and vices, we are emphatically referring to those defects that can be called Anger, Pride, Envy, Greed, Gluttony, Lust and Laziness. We seek purification through comprehending our defects through the application of self-observation and meditation as our tools. It is only after comprehending a certain defect that it can be eliminated. All of the suffering of the world is caused by these defects and each of these defects has its corresponding selfish desires. The world and all of its problems is just a sum total of all the individuals who carry the defects within. Therefore, we must seek to change ourselves and thereby make a true revolution.

Sacrifice for Humanity

This factor is seen in the works of the great avatars and what they have done for humanity. Those who have given their life for suffering humanity, to give the teachings in different epochs, races and religions have shown us how to sacrifice for humanity. We read about many great Masters who gave their life for suffering humanity and received martyrdom in return. Sacrifice is to give without the desire to receive, and it is to give consciously.

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And for those of you curious beings -- Let Us Make Adam (http://gnosticteachings.org/courses/let-us-make-adam/3384-let-us-make-adam.html).

I can also recommend two books which I have bought and have read:
(in case someone decides to view my attempts here as pure copy-cat wisdom)

Secret Teachings of Moses (http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Teachings-Moses-Soul-Garden/dp/1934206458/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1395838676&sr=1-1) by Aunel va Daath

The Gnostic Bible: The Pistis Sophia Unveiled (http://www.amazon.com/Gnostic-Bible-Pistis-Sophia-Unveiled-ebook/dp/B004T4M5XS/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1395838858&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Gnostic+Bible%3A+The+Pistis+Sophia+Unveiled) by Samael Aun Weor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samael_Aun_Weor)

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The whole website http://gnosticteachings.org/
has a tremendous amount of free lectures, most of them in audio format, that can be downloaded (http://gnosticteachings.org/download.html) of streamed online,
for anyone interested in expanding their knowledge of religion and spirituality.

For, some copy-cats know that the hot water has been already discovered long time ago.

Cheers,
the copycat (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/copycat)

chocolate

26th March 2014, 14:31

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And since I am an artist myself, here is something beautiful we all can appreciate
(not my artwork):

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0172/1270/products/shining_path_1024x1024.jpg?v=1354901132

"This artwork is from a series I call ‘Celtic Illuminations’. It is a religious and contemplative work designed to hold the eye and soothe the soul.
According to the Irish Annals, Coptic and Gnostic Christianity was well established in Ireland long before the coming of the great Patricius, or Saint Patrick, as he is known today. The Shining Path refers to teachings of the Coptic and Gnostic Gospels, and their emphasis on enlightenment as a key to the understanding of the words of the mystic later known as Jesus Christ, as recorded in the various approved and non-approved gospels. The links between the world of early Irish Monasticism and early Middle Eastern and North African Christianity are celebrated in this piece."
http://www.jimfitzpatrick.com/the-shining-path/

chocolate

29th March 2014, 20:54

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I wanted to add a new find to my humble corner:

Earth Explained - Alchemy Simplified - Sevan Bomar
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Bartlett-Real-Alchemy-Free Full Book (https://www.dropbox.com/s/rum72nrhweg6duj/Bartlett-Real-Alchemy.pdf)

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And just one link to Astral Quest - Sevan Bomar:
Season 1 Episode 5 - The Spirit Worlds (http://livestre.am/4C5xa)

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Based on his experiments with turbid media, Goethe characterized color as arising from the dynamic interplay of darkness and light.

The action of turbid media was to Goethe the ultimate fact of the world of colors.
"We see on the one side Light, and on the other side Darkness. We bring between both Turbidity, and from these opposites develop all colors."
- Goethe, Farbenlehre

Modern natural science sees darkness as a complete nothingness. According to this view, the light which streams into a dark space has no resistance from the darkness to overcome. Goethe pictures to himself that light and darkness relate to each other like the north and south pole of a magnet. The darkness can weaken the light in its working power. Conversely, the light can limit the energy of the darkness. In both cases color arises.

chocolate

29th March 2014, 21:35

And just for my own personal enjoyment:

SRI YANTRA:
http://stephenknapp.info/1323BSriYantra.jpg

Yantras are generally geological designs imprinted on a copper or silver plate. These days we also see them in multi-colored inks on paper. Among the sacred symbols manifested by the Vedic Rishis, yantras are predominantly regarded as devices for devotional sadhanas or practices, and as objects to direct our mind and worship. These are used as tools for mental concentration and meditation. Keeping a specific yantra in a particular direction in the home, and worshiping it and concentrating upon it is said to have distinct auspicious effects. A mantra is the generator of specific currents of sublime sound and its perceivable manifestation; a yantra is a monogram - a spectrograph of this sonic energy.
Likewise the images of gods in the temples, yantras are revered and worshiped as symbols of divine powers. The Devi Bhagavat (3|26|21) states - Archabhave Tatha Yantram; meaning - a yantra symbolizes a divine power. Similar meanings are indicated in Naradiya Purana, Gautamiya Tantra, Yogini Tantra, and several other Vedic scriptures.
Yantras are also referred as the abodes of the divine powers of God, or of the deity that it represents. This is why most of the Vedic yantras are named after different divinities, such as, Ganesa-yantra, Sri-yantra, Gopala-yantra, etc. Each yantra needs to be installed with the use of particular mantras, similar to the temple installation of a deity. Which yantra is placed in which direction and how its worship and devotional sadhana is to be performed - the knowledge of these constitutes a science in itself that has linkage with the Vedic cosmology and sciences of mantra, Tantra, and Vastu.
A dot (.) in the cryptography of yantra symbolizes absoluteness, completeness. In terms of the manifestation of Nature in the universe, it is a symbol of the nucleus of cosmic energy and hence represents the power-source of all activities and motion. Its spiritual implication is pure knowledge, enlightenment, and ultimate realization. The expansions of a dot in circular forms, in a yantra, symbolize related expressions in varied forms. Combining the dots results in a triangle. Different lengths of the straight lines joining the dots, different angles between them, and the different triangular and other shapes generated thereby together with free dots, circles, straight, curvilinear, convergent, and divergent lines are the basic features/components of the structure of a yantra.
Everything that exists in the cosmos has some size and structure - perceivable or conceptualized - in subliminal, astronomical or intermediate dimensions. Even the invisible subtle entities have 'shapes' which could be 'seen' through mental eyes. The sagacious minds of the Vedic Age had deeper insight to 'see' the invisible or sublime elements of nature and express them in a universal language of symbols. They had thus invented a coding system of symbols, signs and alphabets (including digits) to represent the syllables of the seed mantras associated with the sublime fields of divine powers (devatas), natural tendencies of consciousness, emotional impulses in a being, etc; and the five basic elements (pancha-tatvas), their etheric vibrations and energy fields, and the states and motions of the enormous varieties of sub-atomic, atomic, and molecular structures generated thereby. Specific configurations of these codes were then incorporated in different yantras. Thus, by meditating on the yantras, and using particular mantras to invoke their potencies, would also awake higher powers within the mind and consciousness of the sadhaka, or practitioner, if done properly.

Source -- http://stephenknapp.info/yantras.htm

chocolate

29th March 2014, 22:18

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META-PHYSICAL BODY ENERGY

Meta-physics means changed physics (meta = changed). As you will see, the meta-physics of the body really means meta-nomenclature (changed names). So, lets take the mystery out of meta-physical body energy.

One of the first meta-physical words most people run into is "aura". Someone invariably will ask you what color your aura is. Well, since it is an electrical field-generated aura, blue is a good answer. Depending on what neurotransmitters are in use, the aura may be yellow, purple, pink, red, or multi- colored. Blue is the most common.

Auras can be seen best in low-light, humid conditions just like the transmission lines we talked about. Arizona is not a great place to see auras. It's there, of course, since you have an active electrical system but with low humidity, you must rely on the humidity provided by your body to see the electromagnetic field glow.

The color of an aura is important because it signifies the type of neurotransmitter in use. During illness or injury, the body produces and uses different chemicals than a healthy body uses. The size and shape of your aura is important because this indicates the relative strength of the electrical field. The aura will be small or even absent where little or no electricity is flowing along the nervous system. The aura will be strongest where a lot of neurotransmitters are stored or in use.

The aura can be made larger by increasing the number of electrons moving in the nerves. Conversely, the number of electrons can be increased by causing the aura to get bigger. Simple electromagnetic field physics.

The aura does not store energy. Increasing the size of the aura may appear to be storing energy but is simply a reflection of the electrical storage and activity of the body.

Another early meta-physical set of words people run into are "Yin" and "Yang". These two represent respectively "female" and "male" energy. What they really represent are the quantum mechanic left and right spin electrons slightly differing electric auras. As it turns out, females show a general selection for use of left spin or Yin and males use right spin or Yang.

These opposite spin electrons, when polarized, as the body can do, create a kind of battery which can be used to influence body chemistry. With practice, this very slight polarity can become a potent tool for many uses including healing.

Acupressure/puncture uses many mysterious points on the body to create wondrous effects. These systems really work (much to the amazement and chagrin of medical doctors). As it turns out, the critical points are called Tsubos. You remember these, they're nodes, in fact, they're called Nodes of Ranvier.

Each Tsubo or Node of Ranvier represents a point where neuro-transmitters are stored, used, and manufactured. When the body is hurt, it makes and uses a certain mix of neuro-transmitters. When the body and mind are healthy and happy, a different mix of neuro-transmitters are used. This is the way it goes for every mood, emotion, illness, or injury.

While most acupressure points are on Nodes of Ranvier, some are on areas that cause the Nodes to produce a desired mix of neuro-transmitters. The mix of neuro-transmitters used to send a signal to or from the brain is important and tells the brain and body what to feel, what's wrong, what action to take, etc. If you want to fake the brain out, you need only to mix up a bogus soup of neuro-transmitters, send out the signals and the brain will believe them. If you want to heal someone, set their aura to a healthy aura and the neuro-transmitters must change to match the aura (at least for awhile).

That is how come a hypnotist can raise a blister on a subject just by touching them with a finger. The brain believes the finger is red hot, sends the appropriate signals via the right soup of neuro-transmitters, and a blister raises. That is how come acupressure works. Send the right signal to the brain and reality is altered (or restored!).

Acupressure uses meridians to assist in healing people. These meridians are lines envisioned on and in the body that connect specific Tsubos. Skillful use of the activation, alteration, deactivation, or energizing of these meridians of Tsubos and Tsubo-affecting points can do wonderful things. Headaches can be cured, pain made to go away, the body operated on without injecting pain killers, or the mind made to stop being afraid, etc.

Just as the mind can raise a blister, telling the body what to feel, the body can tell the mind what to feel. Fear for example, usually happens when the body is afraid of being harmed. If the body tells the mind all is OK the mind will believe, sending back good signals and reinforcing the body in its belief of well-being. This resonates back and forth, gaining strength (and health) until the body and mind are, indeed, just fine.

A well-trained practitioner can create these effects by activating the correct sequence of Tsubos. Potentially, any healing, any emotion, any feeling can be effected through skilled use of meridians of Tsubos and the production of the proper soup of neuro-transmitters. It doesn't matter how the neuro-transmitters are produced, the body and brain acts only according to their chemistry. A person can't be in terror and happy at the same instant, the chemistry of the electrical transmission lines can't send more than one "flavor" at a time.

Conversely, convincing yourself that you are healthy and happy will do the same by sending signals to your body which say "healthy and happy". When signals of health are sent out, the body will act accordingly and be healthy. A combination of mental attitude and body energy changes should be a powerful tool for healing. Such a tool exists in the Tree of Life combined with Tantra and body energy alignment.

Diet is also important to create the above benefits. The body will produce the called-for neuro-transmitters to the best of its ability. It will even break down other tissue to make up needed soup mixes. That is what happens to the terminally depressed or angry person. Their body is consumed by the need to produce special neuro-transmitters until it actually harms or even kills them. Your body can't make what ain't there. Feed your body well!

Electron-spin effects or Yin/Yang effects are very important in manufacture of the appropriate neurotransmitters. Neuro-transmitters signal the body and brain to create a wide range of hormones, endorphins, pheromones, etc. The same neurotransmitter with Yin-spin electrons will cause a different set of hormones, endorphins, etc., to be made than the same neurotransmitter with Yang-spin electrons.

A very complicated system! You can see that skilled is certainly the operative word. Fortunately, there is more than 5000 years of experience to draw on to help us accomplish our goals.

And, that is an interesting point. This stuff was known at least 5000 years ago. It hardly seems possible that with just a pair of hands all that accurate knowledge of the body could have been discovered. But it was!

Your hands are highly sensitive instruments. With training they can accomplish all of these things and much more.

Source: http://www.kundalini-tantra.com/meta1.html

http://www.taus.it/sites/default/files/copertine/blog/khamsa03.jpg?1361828945

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chocolate

30th March 2014, 00:25

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http://www.dekalbmasons.com/module/blog/img/masonic_emblem_chart.jpg

I Ching -- 6. Sung / Conflict
http://www.psychic-revelation.com/images/i_ching_06_sung.jpg

above CH'IEN
THE CREATIVE, HEAVEN

below K'AN
THE ABYSMAL, WATER

THE IMAGE

Heaven and water go their opposite ways:
The image of CONFLICT.
Thus in all his transactions the superior man
Carefully considers the beginning.

The image indicates that the causes of conflict are latent in the opposing
tendencies of the two trig rams. Once these opposing tendencies appear,
conflict is inevitable. To avoid it, therefore, everything must be taken
carefully into consideration in the very beginning. If rights and duties are
exactly defined, or if, in a group, the spiritual trends of the individuals
harmonize, the cause of conflict is removed in advance.

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chocolate

18th April 2014, 10:14

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I just saw several -- amazing -- videos, and decided to share them here with everyone who so happens to be visiting this ( a bit unfortunate ) thread.
I hope you'll enjoy!

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ZODIAC EVOLUTION by Murat Sayginer

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VOLANS by Murat Sayginer
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RATIO by Murat Sayginer
https://scontent-a-fra.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t1.0-9/1391967_10151771467101888_1782094670_n.jpg

TZgQO-BpyTA

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A Moment of Beauty
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All of the above videos can be watched and downloaded on Vimeo.

chocolate

19th April 2014, 18:51

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And since I love math --
Monster Primer Number!

B4xOFsygwr4

chocolate

21st April 2014, 14:49

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Thinking in retrospect, there were a few things I managed to figure out ( or to get them right to a certain degree ) myself before stumbling upon Sevan.

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The Supreme Human Being - Sevan Bomar

Part 1
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Part 2
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Cheers, and stay enlightened while I am not around.

chocolate

10th August 2014, 10:41

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Rupert Spira (http://non-duality.rupertspira.com/home) - 'The Art Of Peace And Happiness'
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Mind and Matter are Co-Created
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chocolate

10th August 2014, 11:07

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GENESIS

http://vimeo.com/64176095

:P

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chocolate

10th August 2014, 12:02

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A N A M N E S I A
( a loss of forgetfulness )

http://vimeo.com/strangeloop/anamnesia

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AUTOMATON [ short ]
Awareness is passed on from one awakened being to another

http://vimeo.com/100071173

TraineeHuman

11th August 2014, 14:46

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Rupert Spira (http://non-duality.rupertspira.com/home) - 'The Art Of Peace And Happiness'
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Mind and Matter are Co-Created
CbD7C68GUH4

Truly wonderful videos! The first one is delightful and outstanding for several reasons. One is that we see the great intensity and totalness with which Rupert underwent his own inner journey. Yes, nothing less than extraordinary intensity like that will get a person to freedom from unhappiness. In this video we can see it in his face and his heart and in the huge clarity and simplicity of how he speaks.

It's also fascinating because of its detailed description of how he went through the process of deeply asking questions. Particularly the question: "Who/what am I really?" And of how he was completely unwilling to settle for anything but the full truth, as best as he could get to it, throughout the stages of that process. It looks to me that, as with everyone, that process is an intuitive one. Not a logically rational one, as might sound from his explanation. It comes from burning to find the real truth.

Having said that, it may sound churlish or presumptuous of me to add a criticism, but here goes. Yes, he's certainly correct in saying that unhappiness is ultimately the same thing as a sense of being separate from or alone in the rest of the universe. And in the second video, even more accurately, that unhappiness is, precisely, absolutely, identical with the sense that one is an object, and not infinite. I happen to know myself that this is quite precisely the truth, though I've been unwilling to state it so baldly. In the "OBEs... " thread I started, some seem to have supposed I have been arguing for the complete unreality of objects, and for the immanence of the infinite, as some kind of pet philosophical position of my own (or of Taoism and Ch'an Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta and many of the greatest mystics from many traditions, like Meister Eckhart and Milaropa and so on). No. This is all about saving people from suffering, from the very root of all suffering and unhappiness. It's about continually using words to point towards the real truth, that's all.

But to get back to my perhaps minor criticism of part of what Rupert says in the first video, I feel in that video he makes it sound too much almost like we have to give up any sense of self and virtually blend into a great universal blancmange. Counter to that, I might point to the Zen saying that before enlightenment [for which read "true happiness and peace"] one chops wood (etc etc) and after enlightenment one still chops wood. In other words, one still has a physical body and one still uses a rather separative identity to live in the world as we know it. But now one is happy, because deep inside one knows that all sense of disconnection or alienation (or loneliness) has gone, forever -- in this lifetime at the very least.

One still has to maintain and respect and at times even defend certain boundaries, including those of the "self" one presents to others. The difference is quite subtle. One of the famous Zen masters prefaced his most famous piece by saying that if you miss by the thinnest hair's breadth, that's enough to send you plummeting down into a very deep chasm instead of safely jumping over it to the other side. I think he was referring to this subtlety.

chocolate

11th August 2014, 19:02

TH, do you remember when you said that you don't believe we need 'bad' guys so that we discover ourselves truly? I think you used the comparison of the gym and that lifting weights is supposed to make you 'stronger'? ( I don't like gyms, much more prefer running in the park )

You were wrong, if I may humbly add.
Some are already applying that type of strategy. I hope the moldavite will help, but I doubt it. It is like placing a newspaper in front of a bullet.

I am writing this here because I don't want to spoil your thread.
Or perhaps it doesn't matter anymore where I write it.

Whatever.
People come and people go ( here, elsewhere, anywhere...), and what is left is the 'fragrance' after them.

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EXPANDING CONSCIOUSNESS
from http://www.energeticsynthesis.com/
( I received this article in my mail, so you will not find it on the web site )

Consciousness is Energy

During the Ascension Cycle the planet and humanity is undergoing vibrational shifts which radically impact the individual mind, the collective race mind, the planetary mind; all which exist at uniquely different frequency rates of Consciousness. Each of the uniquely different frequency rates of Consciousness form a distinctive level of energetic intelligence or sentience. Sentience is the varied ability of any type of entity to have a subjective perceptual experience as a characteristic of intelligence or as a facet of developing higher sensory perception. The higher the overall frequency of the Consciousness that uniquely forms the energy of any entity is the relationship to more advanced levels of intelligence and sentience. It is a natural biological process for all human beings to have the ability to evolve and to Expand Consciousness which increases levels of sentience.

[...]

How Does Energy Contract and Expand?

Energy is Consciousness and it either contracts or expands to maintain or increase its frequency rate. The process of how fast or slow energy contracts back towards its center point of source field is the Vibration rate. The process of how fast or slow that same energy expands away from the center point of the source field is the Oscillation rate. The combination of both the pattern of Vibration (contraction) and Oscillation (expansion) speed is what determines the frequency rate of all energy and things. As our personal, collective and planetary consciousness raises frequency, the matter world, including our physical bodies, also becomes less dense as our frequency increases.

The meaning of higher frequency consciousness and sentience are intentionally confused through linear thinkers. Some of those linear thinkers are in panel debates arguing in circles as the supposed experts because they have many initials behind their name and credentials in their scientific field. Rather than have open dialogues of cross pollination in the progressive development of mainstream sciences, divide and conquer mentality is present within the circles of experts competing for some precedence in their field. The NAA does not want any of the scientific communities collaborating together in nonlinear thought in a unified stance for serving humanitarian based ethics. That would foster expanding consciousness, compassion and empathy for the human condition where nonlinear thinking could actually solve some major planetary problems. They would rather reward the standard procedures which generate conflicts of interest, backbiting, lack of empathy and one-upmanship for a competitive race to the finish line to see who gets the next awarded grant money from the Rockefellers.

[...]

The Nature of Consciousness

The first thing that is important to understand is that all that exists, whether seen or unseen, when it is broken down into its simplest and most basic form of energy, consists of a rate of frequency.

To begin to comprehend the nature of Consciousness, and to directly experience Expanding Consciousness through increasing personal frequency, one must go beyond flat linear thinking, thought addiction and stop accepting everything one has been told by other people as fact and truth. The public has been lied to repeatedly about the true motivation behind many world events that are used to continually steal energy resources. Stealing energy is also directly related to the theft of consciousness. Tyrants wreak havoc on the population through oppression, taking away fundamental human needs to enforce fears of survival while promoting genocide and war to feed the pillars of society that continually enforce anti human belief systems.

Consciousness energy consists of and is interconnected providing a distinct frequency pattern and is immediately transmitted and received, with no concept of space or time when released into the planet. Consciousness is not limited to time and space. If the rate of that vibration falls below or rises above certain intensity, it becomes immeasurable or invisible to the basic human senses. This means it is beyond the capacity of the five basic senses, such as frequency rates outside of the visible light spectrum. That doesn't mean that frequency of consciousness does not exist because you cannot currently sense it. When higher consciousness is expanded, sensory ability, levels of sentience are greatly expanded. This means that one can develop consciousness to perceive and sense energies in higher frequency ranges, and then perceive sentient beings that one was not aware of previously.

During the Ascension cycle this is a fact and it happens every day. However, since people are not given context for this happening (higher sensory perception, intuition, telepathy, etc.) they are potentially persecuted or medically diagnosed. The freedom which allows human consciousness expansion to happen naturally is not as it should be. This is one method to suppress consciousness on earth through persecution and by rejecting it as a natural biological process of human evolution. Becoming educated about Ascension, Consciousness functions and World Humanism, while committing to expand one's personal consciousness and sentience, is one of the most effective actions one may take for the self and for the planet.

Practices to Expand Consciousness

If we are a person that has primarily linear, mental and social orientation, it takes devotion and discipline to reach discernment of one's mental impulses and develop self-awareness. Our society has developed our negative ego as the primary identity of which is recognized as the self. The stronger and more dominating the ego mind, the higher the academic pursuit or repetitive conditioning, those groups of people have the hardest time naturally recognizing negative ego, false identity and releasing the mind control.

When learning about the functions of the mind it may seem like a purely educational study. However, this is the key to transcending the negative ego, transcending mind control which oppress higher consciousness and suppress higher sensory and feeling functions. One cannot only think themselves to higher consciousness. One must allow the deeper feelings, emotions and sensory experience to override the strict intellectual control the ego has over the body and mind.

[...]

Expanding Consciousness is all about training the mind.

Full article here:
http://www.isabeaux.net/news/display.php?M=109521&C=c07c8af80f79e92cb873d981aa20a141&S=436&L=14&N=283

PS. That article one may label as channeled message if one spends time investigating the website, so it may need to go elsewhere.
If that were to be the case I wouldn't mind if it would be moved.

In my opinion, everything is a channeled message.
But I just have too strong headache to be able to write more, or from the heart.

chocolate

18th August 2014, 18:55

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Chaos is formed by those energy currents that are not yet under the control of a center. These energies, being loose, without plan and purpose, often are used by dark forces to create chaotic conditions on the physical, emotional, and mental planes of humanity. These chaotic conditions are often disturbing and preventing the impressions sent from Higher Sources to our planet.
Chaos increases when people act without a purpose or a plan and melt in the chaos, losing the purpose of their life. People often become a part of chaos when they lose their inner direction. Chaos increases also when planets, systems, or even galaxies are left without their souls, thus decaying in the currents of chaos.
Does not chaos operate under the Law of God, as it is from chaos that Cosmos emerges? The scientists think that Cosmos emerges from chaos. However it is not from the chaos that Cosmos emerges, as the baby does not emerge from a chaos.
If the scientists do more study on the formation of a body – atom, man, globe, solar system – they will see that first there is a perfect Archetype and the forces of the Archetype gradually condense it, plane after plane, phase after phase, until it is materialized. The curious thing is that every phase of descent of the Archetype into more condensation is a Cosmos more beautiful than the last condensation.
So the gestation period cannot be called a chaotic period. Chaos is not a state of gestation, evolution, or even involution. Then what is chaos? Chaos is an abortive phenomenon, a process of degeneration, conflict, unpurposeful-ness, goalless-ness, and planless-ness, when forces are let loose to annihilate each other because of their choices.
Every atom, man, globe, solar system, and so on has its own choice, its own form of choice tolerated by the Omnipotent Architect of the Universe. Some of the forces in chaos decide to enter into the labor of evolution of a Cosmos, some not. In timelessness this continues without beginning or end.
(Consciousness vol.1, p.145-147)

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God’s thinking and imagining creates a body to manifest His Soul. That body is the electric wave universe as a whole. It is God’s one idea divided by His thinking and imagining into countless million units of ideas, each having a differently formed body but all manifesting the one by being extensions of each other.
There is naught else in all of this vast universe but moving bodies extending from the stillness of the cosmic Light of Soul which centers thinking Mind of God and man. All formed bodies are made in the image of God and man, and extended from Mind imaginings to manifest God and man.
How simple it really is when you think of it that way – Creator and Creation being just Mind imagined forms electrically extended into electrically formed bodies fashioned in the images of their imaginers.
How much more simple it is to think of all the universe as One Mind, One Soul and One body, seemingly divided into many Minds, many Souls and many bodies.
You must really learn to think of God and God’s body that way before you can fully understand the ONENESS of all things. When you do learn to think of it that way, you will then know that there are not two separate or separable things in the universe. Likewise you will fully understand that all things are extensions of each other, and of the ONE.
Source: Home Study Course, 1950, by Walter and Lao Russell

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"We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.” Letting there be room is allowing for a space, a sacred space, where we can be fully present with our pain.
Pema Chödrön

chocolate

18th August 2014, 19:29

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"There are those who have wondered about how sex could have a role in alchemy. Personally, I don't get the external lab work and why and how that might allow one to grow and evolve, be transformed to a higher state. In tantric alchemy our bodies are our laboratories. Biochemical transformations happen within our bodies. We build "energy structures" by ourselves and with others and are transformed as we do so. As we progress we can open more and more complicated gates and gain the experience and knowlege behind them.

So in general terms how would I describe an alchemy? Using the macrodimensional labyrinth and chamber terminology of EJ Gold I would say that it has a number of characteristics. Consider the labyrinth to be a multidimensional axis system. Instead of having x,y pairs as in a 2 dimensional system, or x,y,z in a 3 dimensional system, picture perhaps a 16 dimensional system so that each chamber has 16 coordinates. Each person has their "body of habits", sort of a holographic fractal that defines the persons characteristics. This is what we are working on changing. We do that by adding more territory to our ranges, clear out the impurities that are thereby revealed, change our "programming", and do a "save" to our self definition. As we purify and expand our being we climb the ladder to larger, purer, more enlightened being states. One of the practical effects is to expand the range of our potential lives. One starts remembering and becomes aware of recurrance, of recurring in variations of the same life over and over again. The variation of life we enter each time is that which will rub off our rough spots, challange our limitations, offer us growth opportunities. It becomes a conscious GROUNDHOG DAY instead of the unconscious GROUNDHOG DAY. As EJ says, right now everybody has eternal life in the worst possible way, the eternal life of involuntary recurrance in a limited life, over and over without memory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_return
Eternal return (also known as "eternal recurrence") is a concept which posits that the universe has been recurring, and will continue to recur, in a self-similar form an infinite number of times. The concept initially inherent in Indian philosophy was later found in ancient Egypt, and was subsequently taken up by the Pythagoreans and Stoics. With the decline of antiquity and the spread of Christianity, the concept fell into disuse, though F. Nietzsche resurrected it.
In addition, the philosophical concept of eternal recurrence was addressed by Arthur Schopenhauer. It is a purely physical concept, involving no supernatural reincarnation, but the return of beings in the same bodies. Time is viewed as being not linear, but cyclical.

All of this is done over and over, refinement via successive approximations. I don't agree with exactly how wikepedia is describing aspects of recurrance but it will do as an approximation. It clearly isn't a new idea and goes back at least to Egyptian alchemy. It becomes much easier to see how all the mechanisms work if one posits a non-dualist "Matrix" type virtual environment rather than an actual physical world. Recurring a million times or a billion times or more in all the possible variations of a life is easier to see how it happens if it is all in a virtual software holodeck and doesn't have to account for how it could happen in a physical environment.

Here is the problem, one can only go to (jaunt, borrowed from THE STARS MY DESTINATION - Alfred Bestor) the chambers one has been too already, reinforcing those but excluding all the others. Now it is possible for one person to take another to the chambers they know. It doesn't help that we each have blocked off most of our possible chambers by fears and avoidances so the initial work is to reattach to all of our blocked off aspects of self, to KNOW THY SELF, via refinement and purification as it might be called. This ability to take another to specific chambers (spaces) is one of the requirements for claiming something new, and 4 other "rules", as specified in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. So as one works closely with another person and becomes close coupled though sharing of all those energies and voyaging to all those other chambers your partner can enter but you can't, they become your own. After a while one has removed all the rough spots demonstrated by going into those chambers and in a very highly energetic "fusion" (I don't know what else to call it) an Alchemical union can occur. It is as if the amount of the labyrinth that one can access is raised to the power of the other person's range creating a much larger span of possible "worlds" for both persons. This is symbolized in the alchemical union of Shiva and Shakti.

As the person makes more and more passes through their life certain things happen. As the person is changed by each pass, the output of one pass becomes input for the next, it takes on fractal characteristics which is also described as holographic. Each part contains the whole, and as this is not a physical system there is no loss of resolution as one goes up and down in scale. The difference that makes it fractal is that the way the life affects one changes slightly each time because the experience of it is modified by the previous pass. When one can see the nature of the change each time and become aware of the change of the change of the change ad infinitum, one has "solved" that specific axis and moves on to the next. Consciousness of the process changes the process and makes it easier to cooperate with it.

I know I haven't done a very good job at describing this and others do so in much more detail in lots of books. However, pragmatically speaking it does work. I had many built in assumptions of duality that caused me all sorts of problems despite having accepted non-dual intellectually. This all seems quite built in to the COS (Cosmic Operating System as a convenient shorthand) and so is available as one of those "shared subconscious archetypes" Jung spoke of.

The key to it all is learning to pay attention to things normally ignored so automatically and thoroughly it isn't even perceived.

In recurrence then, precognition is merely remembering things from other passes through this life that are similar enough to ring the bell. Intuition becomes a less clear memory of the past. Consider Phil in Groundhog Day. He learns that day and himself in all the many variations very deeply. So dreaming of driving off a cliff because of going too fast and the next day finding ones self in a car approaching that cliff and recognizing it allows one to slow down and live this time. Maybe it takes going off the cliff 500 times until the memory clicks in time and the choice is immediately made to change how one is driving is needed. When one consciously remembers and realizes what these experiences are, the rate of change picks up.

The only thing we can actually change is our self. Our whole experience follows from that. We change ourselves and our perceived world changes. When one makes a real change in this way the effects occur immediately. Aiming for specific outcomes distorts the results and results in ego disasters. Changing self towards the divine works out better.

In this system it is easy to get started and get results. The main problem is that most folks just don't want to see themselves in divine clarity. It destroys their mythology, their dreams and their wants, their fears and their nightmares."
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taken literary from a forum about alchemy. I am sure all curious beings will find the source of this excerpt, if they really want to

;)

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"Some people get carried away by methods and techniques, they learn more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing in exacting detail."

chocolate

18th August 2014, 19:34

Agape

18th August 2014, 20:49

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Apple demystified.

End of thread.

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P.S. This place is awfully lonely. And I just realized I may not come back.
Will just silently observe your attempts to find your aliens and far away home galaxies.

Please take a break if you need one ..and do not quite give up Chocolate . Sundays tend to be calmer here .

You are loved :hug:

Wind

18th August 2014, 21:49

Please take a break if you need one ..and do not quite give up Chocolate . Sundays tend to be calmer here .

You are loved :hug:

I thought that it was monday? Well, technically speaking tuesday. :rolleyes:

In my mind this is a very interesting thread. I hope that dear Chocolate continues to shine her light here, it would be sad to see her go again! She's one of her kind. I was happy to see so many good messages in my thread, they certainly made my days more bright.

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chocolate

23rd August 2014, 09:34

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"Love is the glue of the universe".

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Just for my own personal enjoyment here -- I can explain the whole concept of life only with one dandelion.
I sometimes wonder with how many people I can actually have a conversation here ... But then, when i see the prevalent threads and overall interest some of the time, I think that we have gathered to speak about aliens, corruption plots, drama and sex. As for the rest, it just stays as a pretty unobtrusive and enigmatic background.

So now, let's see how many avalon members do want to read my elaborate English some more...

Skyhaven

23rd August 2014, 12:11

Well, I see the discordance as a guide to the concordance... they always go together, the one is there so you then can focus on the other. A perfect place is simply not possible, at least not on earth.

Wind

23rd August 2014, 12:34

A perfect place is simply not possible, at least not on earth.

... Yet. :p

http://mettahu.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/reality-from-thoughts.jpg

Skyhaven

23rd August 2014, 12:58

... Yet. :p

http://mettahu.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/reality-from-thoughts.jpg

Well I have to rephrase that, it is possible, it's very simple, and present right now; by accepting there is nothing wrong with polarity. By seeing that the good comes from the bad, and as such it is perfect.

chocolate

23rd August 2014, 19:33

http://mettahu.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/reality-from-thoughts.jpg

Well I have to rephrase that, it is possible, it's very simple, and present right now; by accepting there is nothing wrong with polarity. By seeing that the good comes from the bad, and as such it is perfect.

Thank you!
:)

That was the perfect start I could have hoped for.

I will use also four videos, and continue from there.

Seven Hermetic Principles:
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The Mental Universe:
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The Divine Paradox:
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The All in All:
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I will break here for the day, because it was a long and heavy day. But will come back tomorrow.

chocolate

23rd August 2014, 19:54

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For me the universe is a dandelion. And all of its potential (seeds) exists simultaneously at the same time. What we think of being past or future actually happens right now. Sounds as a cliche, doesn't it.

It is also very 'in' today to speak about parallel universes, timelines, prophesies, quantum physics, and the like. It is all okay, but a bit not necessary, if it could be substituted with one flower (as a metaphor).

What we call Source, God, the All, the Mind, can be represented by the core holding the ripe seeds, and the seeds in turn can represent a (potential or an actual living) universe.
Here I say potential, but in my reality it is actually happening.
And what I think the past is, is happening, just on a different seed universe, and what I think the future is, also is happening as I type, again in a different 'seed' universe.

They are all interconnected by the core, and we all exist at the same time in various degrees of awareness all in the past, present, and future, at the same time. The way each of us develops [here and now] affects the rest, in various ways.

Buddha has said something in the lines that if one cannot test or experience something one shouldn't believe in that.
I am not sure who can go explore 'the past' moment when Jesus Christ was dying on the cross, or when 'God' was creating us... thus I am not sure if anyone should believe what the current science and history teaches.

This could explain the way people 'time travel', have OBEs, visit parallel universe, make predictions or claim that things have happened in a certain manner... This also explains how we can be reborn, for those who believe in reincarnation, both in the past and in the future, and how the so called future can affect your health right at this very moment.
It all happens through the wormhole of the mind. Our mind, and respectfully the higher mind.

My English isn't good enough to say everything that needs to be said, and the same can be said about my use of language at al. That is why I use most of the time images and videos which could further my explanation.

I need to do a an image of the way I had seen it, and it will take me some time, but will be back.

chocolate

23rd August 2014, 20:27

We think of time as linear, and it certainly is for the duration of a human life, viewed subjectively by the person.
We think of our thoughts as our own creation, but they are a product of information which we receive based on the areas of information that has been allotted for our current state of understanding and development.
But from the perspective of the purpose of it all, we jump from one cell to another (or from one state of a universe to another, in the past or in the present in the way we are used to understand them), and as it was cited in one of my previous posts (see the post about sex and alchemy on the previous page), we do that in order to open, clean, clear and fill that cell, or that life experience with different degrees and products of experience. And those jumps are not in a linear fashion, but based on the law of cause and effect, or as it is known - the law of 'karma'.

Being present, as it is popularly used right now, just received a whole new image (for me).

chocolate

23rd August 2014, 20:52

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chocolate

24th August 2014, 07:50

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As the dandelion ( and many other natural life-forms ) represents the central organization of matter, in a similar way this archetypal way of organization can be used to represent that of the universe.

In the hermetic understanding matter is existing in a never-ending state of vibration. If this is accepted then one can understand how the whole experience is organized in layers from the most outer (or gross, with lowest state of vibration) to the most inner, or the finest, with highest state of vibration, which is the state of Source, or the core. The closer one gets to the core the more subtle the energy ( the higher the vibration) becomes, in different layers of expression.

The dandelion as a flower is the material expression of the energy state, and it doesn't just exist on this 'material plane' as petals, seeds, stem, root and so on. What we see out of it is just what we are capable of experiencing being part of this more dense layer of manifestation. The invisible layers of the flower are also present, but for the moment here we can accept them as a concept and can only 'imagine' their existence being possible or true. If we were to exist in a layer of experience closer to the core by one, or two, or more ( ours +1, +2, etc. ), perhaps then we would have the necessary organs to register and experience more of the layers of that flower. The cause of this existence is the differentiation from the whole to the separate, 'out' and back 'in', in some sort of a never ending wave of becoming and un-becoming ( as also said in my recent posts ), as life and death, as light and darkness, with all the shades ( or states ) in between. It can never become a static existence (as mentioned in the videos above) simply because of the principle of organization and manifestation.

So now when we think of right and wrong, good and bad, positive and negative, male and female, they are but the two polar expression of the vibration of life energy. They are what creates potential, and they are what sustains the dynamic of moving through the layers and the states.

One friend from the forum uses a bit of a different terminology -- the one of the static, from which spirit manifests, and I can see his metaphor running close to what I am trying to bring about here also. The static becomes manifest through the dynamic of polarity, or of the created potential between two sides, or opposites accomodating spirit.

As Goethe has based his theory of colors (post #31 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69656-The-Unenlightened-Thread-Demystifying-the-Apple&p=813786&viewfull=1#post813786)) on the principle of light and darkness, with light being the most whole ( what we call Source, God, Sun, etc.), and darkness being the most differentiated, he also uses the term turbid medium as the substance making the differentiation possible.
What we experience right now physically and metaphorically on this Earth, and in this life time, is an existence submerged in a dense 'turbid medium' -- economically, spiritually, physically (the pollution of nature), etc. making possible the differentiation of matter/spirit to its fullest, or to its smallest forms.

Many people usually view our life right now as a dramatic suffering, or as a mistake started with the beginning of the technical revolution, and many more current concepts of a 'broken/fallen natural state', but for me that is only a physical expression of the need for spirit, or life, to reach its more differentiated state after which there will start ( i think it has already started ) the going back to a more whole ( higher-vibratory) life-state, by merging the current differentiated life forms into bigger, more whole life units, as a matter of ascension and of de-scension at the same time:

What would real, genuine Ascension be like, an Ascension of the whole of homo sapiens, if not also of all life on this planet?
[...]
Astral travel and mental travel experiences are of great interest here. That's because they may offer something like a partial preview of what life in the Ascended world would be like.

I fully agree with the notion that what we know as "Matter" will have to change radically. But will the collective Ascended Spirit of humanity as a whole be satisfied to continue without immortality of their bodies -- if they do have bodies at all? I suspect maybe not, or at the very least that that Spirit will prefer bodies -- or energy fields, or whatever -- that live for several centuries, or longer. And even then, I suspect that may only be acceptable as a transitional phase on the way to having basically immortal bodies -- or no bodies at all.

What is the point of existing in a world beset by disintegration at every turn? Maybe it's to teach us to rise beyond attachments? As in seeing for a fact that life's too short for us to get too greatly bothered about being wounded by this and wounded by that and in a state of almost perpetual wounded-ness as our preferred perspective. But what if humanity -- or much of humanity -- gets to the point where it rises well and truly beyond all that? Maybe not for several centuries yet -- assuming homo sapiens continues to survive till then.

I also consider that the new, Ascended version of "Matter" that Source will create for the Ascended community to live in will be something quite original. In other words, that it won't be similar to the higher "matter" at any level of the astral or mental plane. Why do I believe this? Because Source (well, in its active side, where it's the Divine Mind) is hugely original at every turn. Uniqueness, once again. For instance, all the greatest theories and discoveries of science are based on the insights of highly intuitive, highly original individuals. These individuals can "read" what the universe is like at some deeper and useful level, simply because they are very intuitive, much like the Divine Mind is.

The new, Ascended version of "Matter" will, I think, have to possess consciousness -- at least to the level of being an obviously living, always responsive thing in itself. As in, tables, chairs, buildings, and so on, will now all exhibit intelligent communication. In fact, I consider it's highly likely that all Matter will talk to us, and answer us back. I consider that anything less than this would be way too unimaginative, way too insipid, for the Divine Mind. We need something greater than just a world without war and without institutionalized greed nor despotism of any kind. That would be almost like another chapter of the old stuff. A very happy chapter no doubt, but I can't see the Divine Mind being satisfied with an Ascended "Matter" that fails to break many of the old limitations. Rather, the new Matter will probably be not only intelligent but also immortal, indestructible.

[...]

Before Matter becomes so hugely intelligent and responsive, it's likely there'll be an intermediate stage or two, or ten. Certainly, such things as the brain or mind, the heart, and the will -- all of these will need to be transformed into radically superior "new models". Probably a world-wide web of interconnected hearts will come to be at some point. Maybe -- very probably -- telepathy and clairvoyant impressions will totally replace written and spoken speech. Gravity will also disappear at some point.

Food may no longer be physical in the way we know it, but be positive "energy" in some form, perhaps even that of higher consciousness. Eventually we won't need any food at all, even "food" of a transcendent variety.

At some point the human body will have to transform into something made out of energy fields, vibrations of certain kinds -- probably with some resemblance to what one experiences in the astral world. Mastery of "the vibrations" will then be something everyone will easily have! The human body will then be replaced by an energy form -- no doubt initially with structures corresponding to the heart, the brain, the organs that were there in the physical version.

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?52121-OBEs-What-are-they-how-to-make-them-happen-and-where-does-the-Higher-Self-fit-in&p=850216&viewfull=1#post850216

Here I feel may be a good place to post also several videos which can help me illustrate my point a bit easier.

chocolate

24th August 2014, 08:08

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Rudolf Steiner - Inner Impulses of Evolution

1. The Ancient Greek and Ancient Roman Impulses
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2. Lucifer and Ahriman's Influence, The Threefold Christ
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3. Atlantis in the Mayan mysteries and The New Impulse
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4. Occult History, Instinctive Impulses in Human Nature
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5. Goethe, Philip The Fair and the Knights Templar
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6. Modern Thinking and the Veil of Isis
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http://www.rudolfsteineraudio.com/innerimpulses/innerimpulses.html

The Rudolf Steiner Archive (http://www.rsarchive.org/)

Skyhaven

24th August 2014, 08:20

Thank you for the idea of the dandelion metaphor Chocolate, it really captures my imaginative attention, and its a very plausible and coherent idea!

It took me a bit of time to find my way around at Avalon, but I think I found another spot (this thread) that I like, and find interesting!

chocolate

24th August 2014, 08:53

Thank you, Skyhaven.
I appreciate you words even as a sign that someone cares.

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This thread develops with the changes occurring in my own personal understanding.
There have been times when I had felt a pull toward an idea, a concept, an image, a metaphor, but until one gives it time and space to unfold one cannot state everything clearly.

I also seem to be picking up ideas and concepts sent 'from above' so to say. ;) But I do give them the chance to develop roots and blossom.
I guess we all operate like such, but the majority of time we are all too engrossed into trivial matters, reading others' thoughts and accepting others' ideas.

Recently I am finding it much more easy to be in a state of meditation, or in-between levels of mind, and I am enjoying those states more than linear thinking. This also helped me realize that the whole scare agenda of doom and gloom is just a miss interpretation of something that doesn't fall in either category of being good or bad.

As stated in one film 'danger is real, but fear is a choice'. I try to exist in a state of no-fear, because of the way I 'see' how it works.

There was a film about a tibetan monk, I cannot recall the name, but if I do will post it here.
In that film he was shown with very long hair, cutting his hair in a preparation to leave this world. But according to his words the current dalai lama has asked him to postpone his departure in order to be of more help here. When asked why he has cut his hair the monk words were something in the line that he cannot give a direct answer to that, because he simply exists most of the time in a completely different level of awareness. I guess that could be one way to relieve oneself from 'suffering', by understanding and embracing something different, or higher.

Some of us do suffer being part of this world here. And by that I mean experiencing a mental and spiritual type of pain. Some claim that this world seems a bit too gross, too out-of-balance, too dark, etc. For me those are people who have chosen to exist right now HERE in order to facilitate the process of moving back into more balance for the whole eco-system we call Earth. It feels a bit difficult at times, because of this difference in 'vibration', if you will, but it does helps. And at the same time 'being difficult' can be viewed just as a matter of perception.
Those are people who anchor certain possibilities, vibrations, or timelines, speaking with more modern terms, and they do become conduits for information coming through the layers.
( I am saying this not so much referring to myself, but to other members of this forum, who have felt it too difficult to remain present here, or in this life in general. )

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chocolate

24th August 2014, 09:10

A note regarding polarity, male-female, good-bad, light-darkness:

"Every body in the universe INTERCHANGES with every other body by two-way reversal of polarity at centers of gravity, and again at planes of zero curvature which bound wave-fields. Each then becomes the other and fulfills the office of the other. The positive charge of gravitation reverses polarity at centers of gravity. It then becomes negative discharge which radiates toward the negative half of its dual body. In this electric wave universe, like conditions seek like conditions. The general belief that opposites attract and likes repel has no precedent in natural law.

Every anode is also a cathode and every cathode is an anode. Every charging body is also discharging, and every discharging body is also charging. In this manner, LIFE GIVES TO DEATH that death may die, and DEATH GIVES TO LIFE that life may live."

Source: A New Concept of the Universe, 1953, by Walter Russell

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chocolate

24th August 2014, 09:18

"The more expanded our consciousness becomes, the more attractive it becomes. It attracts and orchestrates the life of the unit in such a way that the unit possesses all that he needs to unfold further. The more expanded your consciousness is, the less power your limitations have upon your life. Every step of expansion of consciousness is a step that gives you more power to use creatively those elements that work against you, created by you in past lives."
(Consciousness Vol.1, p.48) Torkom Saraydarian

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Those last posts are just a bit of side-notes to my main subject right now, which help me give a more comprehensive explanation of what I will add later.

Skyhaven

24th August 2014, 09:25

I feel exactly the same about that the scare agenda of doom and gloom is just an illusion. It amazes me that there's so much of that around here on Avalon. My humble opinion is that fear itself is the only low vibrating 'dark' force to be dealt with. But instead people wallow themselves in fear-related subjects under the pretense of awakening, while a true awakening is to no longer buy into fear-related subjects.

chocolate

24th August 2014, 09:26

" Above all, always refuse to cut your life in two: inner/outer, matter/Spirit, etc.
Limitation is just Infinity turned back in on itself " ~ TraineeHuman

Two ways of viewing the world (http://www.raptitude.com/2014/06/two-ways-viewing-world/)

There are two utterly different ways to view the world around you in any given moment. We can call them Inward and Outward.

An Inward orientation is noticing as much as you can of the moment. It means being receptive to what’s there, being interested in what’s there. Inwardness means you’re primarily observing — bringing the world into you.

An Outward orientation is applying your views and wishes to the moment, by adding your opinion to it, or trying to change something about it, or evaluating whether it’s probably good for you or bad for you. It means you’re seeing the world (or at least this instance of it) in terms of your interests, where it fits in your story. Outwardness means you’re primarily assessing and commentating — putting your interests out into the world.

Talking is an example of outwardness, listening is an example of inwardness.

Watching inwardly is simply observing. Watching outwardly is hoping.

Viewing the world outwardly will inevitably add anxiousness to our lives, because it keeps us looking to judge, modify, improve, comment on, approve of or disapprove of what we see. This creates a background of neediness to most moments, because we’re invested in seeing them change in a certain way, or stay the same in a certain way.

Viewing the world inwardly is simply doing your best to see what’s there before we make any judgments, to simply observe how it looks, feels, and sounds. All you’re applying to the moment is attention.

Neither is a strictly good or bad thing, and we need to employ both to some extent. An inward orientation has the virtue of reducing neediness and angst, because we’re refraining from making value judgments when not necessary. We need to adopt an outward orientation, however, to establish goals, make improvements, build a vision for our lives, or even just to assert things or ask for things.

But we do those outward things ultimately so that we have an easier time living inwardly later. Some unconscious part of us knows that real happiness and equanimity only come when we find ourselves completely inward towards the moment — completely receptive to how it is right now. Our brains know, on some level, that with certain goals achieved and certain arrangements made, it will be easier to do that.

It’s not unusual to work 50 straight weeks in an outward mode to be able to buy two weeks in a place that almost forces one to experience that time inwardly: a place with palm trees, pools, servants, drinks, or anything else that’s hard to find fault with or improve upon.

It’s certainly easier to be inward towards a good setup. Isn’t that why we take on goals or try to improve our surroundings in the first place, so that eventually we can more easily be with the moment as it is?

But our culture is almost entirely preoccupied with nurturing an outward orientation. Career life, school and government policy is almost entirely a matter of getting further along, and consequently many of us have little practice actively being here for what’s already here, which was the forgotten point of our incessant “improvement” all along.

Because of our cultural influences (and probably biological ones too) we tend to slip into an outward orientation unless we’re trying to live inwardly on purpose.

People who cultivate an inward orientation on purpose are still relegated to the “alternative” fringes for the most part. Only a minority of people I know seem to have any interest in mindfulness and meditation, which are really just ways of practicing inwardness so that we can stay receptive in ordinary moments — which probably don’t contain hot tubs or ice cream or cocktails or anything else that’s exceptionally agreeable.

Anyone can become inward when there’s a beautiful sunset or a concert happening in front of them, but can you do it in line at the post office? Can you do it on a Tuesday at 5:50 when you’ve just burned some rice? Life is much easier and more fun if you can.

A simple way to “go inward” for a moment is to pretend you just died, and experience the moment as if you can see every aspect of it, but you’re not there. This is a very revealing exercise. Whenever you do it, it becomes clear that there isn’t anything wrong with the moment at all, unless you’re there to demand something of it. Then your life becomes about that, until something else captures your attention.

There’s a saying that goes, “When a pickpocket meets a saint, all he sees are pockets.” Every time we send something out the door, nothing’s coming in.

Clearly an inward orientation makes for a better default, and outwardness a better exception. Outwardness when we need to impose ourselves on the world, and inwardness the other 99 percent of the time.

Conducting yourself with an inward orientation takes practice for those of us whose culture seems to encourage only outwardness — where we’re always imposing instead of observing, doing instead of being. We can begin to recondition ourselves (and our species) the other way by deciding to be inward towards the present moment on a more regular basis.

When you start paying attention to your orientation, inward and outward becomes as easy to tell apart as hot and cold. But at first you might need a litmus test: Am I taking in the moment as it is, or am I imposing my needs and interests on it? When you don’t know what to do, just take the moment in and leave it at that. Be hollow for it, whatever it is.

chocolate

24th August 2014, 10:38

An article that runs close to the subject matter of this thread:

http://jbrown3920.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/scientific.jpg

When it comes down to it, the universe is a baffling place. There is perhaps nothing more baffling than the fact that there’s even a universe to be baffled by. How many universes are there? Some scientists claim the answer could be anything between zero (this universe is an illusion) and infinity (multiverse). Nobody really knows the answer. And yet, the more we know, the more fascinating everything seems. The more baffling the question, the more exhilaration we feel. It’s the unanswered questions that pull us forward and bring a sense of the spiritual to the task of figuring things out.

Even the things we have figured out are minuscule compared to the things we can’t even imagine we can’t explain. Like Werner Heisenberg said, “The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been understood is infinite.” Here then are four basic unexplained scientific concepts that seemingly bridge the gap between science and spirituality, and just might make us more spiritual in the process of trying to figure them out.

The full article can be read here:
http://themindunleashed.org/2014/03/three-unexplained-scientific-concepts-can-make-us-spiritual.html

And another one here:
http://themindunleashed.org/2014/03/10-scientific-studies-prove-consciousness-can-alter-physical-world.html

chocolate

24th August 2014, 15:25

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Related to the subject of the thread, albeit as a different side note:

The Chakra System as Recounted in the Books of Genesis and Revelation

The Seven Churches of the Revelation of Jesus Christ to St. John have many meanings. In keeping with multiple levels of interpretation the churches can be understood as messages relating to historical churches of the period, messages regarding the seven divisions of church history and in the most esoteric of interpretations, to the seven spiritual centres of the body. The seven churches of Revelation each can be related to the seven psychic centres, or Chakras, with the teachings given to each church (warnings, blessings etc.) relating to the consciousness and activity at that level. These attributions illustrate how each church can be understood as a centre of energy within the psychic organism.

Throughout the mental, astral, etheric and physical organism there are networks for the transmission of energy. Nerves, synapses, meridians and marmas all transmit various degrees of Prana to and from various systems. Within each system there are major receiving and distribution points, these are the seven Chakras. These seven centres are interface stations whereby energy from the Solar sphere can be received and where, via spiritual practise, the energies of the mind and astral-etheric organism can be transformed. The Seven Chakras are located within the astral and etheric bodies (with links to the various related levels of consciousness) and are seen as a sequence of energy receptors and distributors. The term ‘Chakra’ literally means ‘wheel of energy’. The size of the Chakra tends to be from two to six inches, varying according to the degree of spiritual development. Each of these centers is related to a state of consciousness and a colour. The states of consciousness can also be discovered by an esoteric reading of the seven days of creation in Genesis.

Part 1 – Book of Revelation: The Mystery of the Seven Churches

The Four Attributes of the Churches

The four attributes of each Church help us to appreciate the unique nature of each of the energy centres. These centres are central to the process of transforming the electromagnetic field of the individual from the Dialectic to the Static. The Kundalini or Serpent power based in the lowest centre is energised in such a way that the serpent seed is replaced by the Serpent of Wisdom (the Messiah).

The four attributes of each Church as given in the Book of Revelation are:

1. Characteristics of the Church and City.
2. Commendation of the Church.
3. Counsel and Warning.
4. Promises to Overcomers.

The Church of Ephesus

The Church of Ephesus is the Base Chakra. It is known as ‘desirable’ and is that of the primal instincts. It is desired by, and desires, Laodicea – the Sahasrara (Crown Chakra) Centre. The union of these centres locks the organism into the Static currents of the Pleroma.

The Characteristic of the City is that of change; the change from earthly to Gnostic worship. This represents the transmutation of purely ‘nature’ orientated vibrations into forces that serve the spiritual goal. This technology includes the correct use of passion and desire with the process of Transfiguration. The key here is that all drives and goals must be directed towards the Pleroma.

The Commendation of the Church is given for its patience and labour and it is especially commended because it has not fainted. These images refer to the immense effort and perseverance required to keep control over the energies of the base centre. The ideal situation would be total awareness or, in more Biblical terms, ‘not fainting’.

The Counsel and Warning is that the Church has left its true love. This clearly refers to the need for the base centre to be totally directed to the Pleroma. Whether it is swayed by family, lust, desire or even love, any movement away from the goal is ‘sin’. (The word ‘sin’ literally means ‘to miss the mark’).

The Promise offered to those who correctly use the Base Chakra is the ability to ‘eat from the Tree of Life’. This has many different shades of meaning, ranging from the promise of immortality to the liberation of the Self through the activation of the Tree of Life.

https://scontent-b-fra.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/t1.0-9/1795583_699998610076468_3888941223413898274_n.jpg

The full article can be found here: http://julianwebsdale.tumblr.com/post/95552850639/the-chakra-system-as-recounted-in-the-books-of-genesis

Skyhaven

24th August 2014, 21:15

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f101/BeyondtheOsiris/Tree_of_Life_zps671760df.jpg

chocolate

25th August 2014, 07:17

I know some may expect me to say that we live in a digital, virtual, or holographic reality, with all that this would imply.
One does get ridiculed often, so I will save myself the extra emotion.
And that would be a very easy answer, but a great part of the mechanic are probably running close to what we understand under the term 'virtual' reality.

This video is interesting, and fits exactly with the last subject of the thread, not to say it fits also other threads, too.
For anyone interested, Tom Campbel has a good variety of useful videos.

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annacherie

26th August 2014, 17:01

"When you start paying attention to your orientation, inward and outward becomes as easy to tell apart as hot and cold. But at first you might need a litmus test: Am I taking in the moment as it is, or am I imposing my needs and interests on it? When you don’t know what to do, just take the moment in and leave it at that. Be hollow for it, whatever it is" -chocolate

One of my demons is identifying with what I "do" instead of allowing myself to" be done" the parkinsons issues really really emphasize this because the deficit of dopamine tends to keep one in flight or fight mode. - breathing a good place to begin to allow...great thread chocolate .

" It is important to note that in spite of how it feels when you inhale, you do not actually pull air into the body. On the contrary, air is pushed into the body by the atmospheric pressure (14.7 pounds per square inch, or 1.03 kg/cm squared) that always surrounds you. This means that the actual force that gets air into the lungs is outside the body. The energy expended in breathing produces a shape change that lowers the pressure in the chest cavity and permits the air to be pushed into the body by the weight of the planet's atmosphere. In other words, you create the space, and the universe fills it." (Under the headline 'The Universe Breathes Us' in the book 'Yoga Anatomy' written by Kaminoff Matthews)"

Wind

26th August 2014, 17:58

"Is the universe chaos, or is there an underlying mathematical order?

Sacred Geometry (https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/sacredgeometry) is the study of naturally occurring patterns according to different measurements and ratios that appear not only in nature, but in some of the art and architecture that the human eye recognizes as being the most beautiful, awe-inspiring."

https://scontent-b-ams.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/t1.0-9/10644637_10152617917377731_57726190180487249_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t34.0-12/10609247_10152637425156323_1884077933_n.jpg?oh=3e41c8bcd1f6d1fc81550b3bebf90dea&oe=53FECE80&__gda__=1409197393_75e377744d3450352c9d441bb585f25d

"Sacred geometry‬: the study of the fundamental geometrical forms of space time to reveal the secrets of both physical and spiritual reality. It is an exploration into the source of Beauty and Energy and Intelligence. It is a key to good Science, a light on the Mystical Path, and secret of great Art."

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/t1.0-9/10603731_526572500822576_8299568550145955584_n.jpg

Skyhaven

26th August 2014, 22:10

Golden ratio
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2ReiZ87JIKA/UYnQsqwUn1I/AAAAAAAADLQ/yHkEJT_kDwY/s1600/spiral-big.jpg

http://strangesounds.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/leavesGoldenRatio.jpg

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRz_ME8OunUOs6RdmiQC9D0K8tYeOqeE1Np-emkuFmUNwt3wWwC5Q

https://www.vismath.eu/files/images/span10/golden-section-mean-ratio-hurrican-weather.jpg

Fractals
http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/RZL0SLf04yM/maxresdefault.jpg

http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/images_blogs/wiredscience/2010/09/fractal_12a.jpg

https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5220/5418286817_fffbb6babb_z.jpg

http://www.cwu.edu/~ratlifja/Pictures/lightninggallery.jpg

chocolate

22nd September 2014, 07:21

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In this video Walter Russel explains the correlation between big and small, mind and sensation, the nature and the necessity of 'duality' in this time and space, and so on.

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http://vimeo.com/user3508177/theunfolding

And just so that I am clear, if one decides to put the label 'sacred' in front of one type of geometry, that implies that the 'other' one is not. For me that has always been one thing - geometry.

chocolate

22nd September 2014, 07:25

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And since I mentioned the dandelion, what I suppose one can think of might be just the principle of concentric spherical organization, represented on a two-dimensional plane as a circle.

http://sciencealert.com.au/images/stories/new2014/diatom-5.jpg
The otherworldly beauty of microscopic organisms (http://sciencealert.com.au/features/20141809-26195.html)

Marine diatoms are one of the smallest creatures on Earth. UK-based biologist Klaus Kemp and filmographer Matthew Killip teamed up to showcase these minuscule organisms' diverse beauty.

http://sciencealert.com.au/images/stories/new2014/diatom-1.jpg

http://sciencealert.com.au/images/stories/new2014/diatom-2.jpg

http://sciencealert.com.au/images/stories/new2014/diatom-3.jpg

http://sciencealert.com.au/images/stories/new2014/diatom-4.jpg

http://vimeo.com/90160649

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For me, personally, fractals are organized units of matter carrying units of consciousness, from the microscopic to the macroscopic.

chocolate

22nd September 2014, 07:33

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Now to a bigger scale:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/09/10/1410305533817_wps_21_Magnetic_data_images_of_n.jpg
The hidden empire below Stonehenge (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2750005/The-hidden-empire-Stonehenge-Radar-scanners-17-sites-near-ancient-stones.html)

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Ron Eglash: The fractals at the heart of African designs

Ron Eglash is an ethno-mathematician: he studies the way math and cultures intersect. He has shown that many aspects of African design — in architecture, art, even hair braiding — are based on perfect fractal patterns.

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http://www.american-buddha.com/schopenwill.137.gif

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http://payload311.cargocollective.com/1/11/360454/8524932/ch05_img25a_o.jpg

chocolate

22nd September 2014, 07:47

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And to the 'super macro', published recently, and already posted on the forum:
(do watch without distracting sound)
Laniakea (http://phys.org/news/2014-09-laniakea-newly-galactic-supercluster-home.html)

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I was 'amused' by the choice of colors, red and blue :) , and by the 'great attract-or' -- The Primer Fields videos came to mind.
[ Nevermind the 'going home' slogan. I never thought I am 'not at home', so this 'discovery' doesn't change the way I feel. ]

But the end of the video, the association it gave me, was mind blowing in itself. ;)

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And an addition to 'the great attract-or' type of a thing:

Mysterious quasar sequence explained (http://phys.org/news/2014-09-mysterious-quasar-sequence.html)

Quasars are supermassive black holes that live at the center of distant massive galaxies. They shine as the most luminous beacons in the sky across the entire electromagnetic spectrum by rapidly accreting matter into their gravitationally inescapable centers.

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work, published in the September 11 issue of Nature, shows that most observed quasar phenomena can be unified with two simple quantities: one that describes how efficiently the hole is being fed, and the other that reflects the viewing orientation of the astronomer.
Quasars display a broad range of outward appearances when viewed by astronomers, reflecting the diversity in the conditions of the regions close to their centers. But despite this variety, quasars have a surprising amount of regularity in their quantifiable physical properties, which follow well-defined trends (referred to as the "main sequence" of quasars) discovered more than 20 years ago.
Using the largest and most-homogeneous sample to date of over 20,000 quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, combined with several novel statistical tests, Shen and Ho were able to demonstrate that one particular property related to the accretion of the hole, called the Eddington ratio, is the driving force behind the so-called main sequence. The Eddington ratio describes the efficiency of matter fueling the black hole, the competition between the gravitational force pulling matter inward and the luminosity driving radiation outward. This push and pull between gravity and luminosity has long been suspected to be the primary driver behind the so-called main sequence, and their work at long last confirms this hypothesis.
Of additional importance, they found that the orientation of an astronomer's line-of-sight when looking down into the black hole's inner region plays a significant role in the observation of the fast-moving gas innermost to the hole, which produces the broad emission lines in quasar spectra. This changes scientists' understanding of the geometry of the line-emitting region closest to the black hole, a place called the broad-line region: the gas is distributed in a flattened, pancake-like configuration.

http://cdn.phys.org/newman/gfx/news/hires/2014/mysteriousqu.jpg

The 'color choice' of the sequence from the above image/graph is also interesting.

Skyhaven

22nd September 2014, 09:06

Wow, stunning... I never knew that diatoms are so beautiful. But then again: as above so below, i guess.

Love whats said at the end of the Walter Russel video: "That what you can see, you cannot know. That what you cannot see, you can know".

For me, personally, fractals are organized units of matter carrying units of consciousness, from the microscopic to the macroscopic.

Yes, that's what I also think. What is mind-blowing to me is that an intrinsic quality of the fractal is that they are infinite... spiraling from dense to subtle, Not only in a linear fashion, but even into dimension beyond our conception. Its very humbling to know we are in the middle of this.

And just so that I am clear, if one decides to put the label 'sacred' in front of one type of geometry, that implies that the 'other' one is not. For me that has always been one thing - geometry.

Your right, everything is sacred, although we don't always perceive it as such, some things are easily seen as mundane or familiar, but if one looks closer (going down the spiral), one is going to be truly amazed. I believe there are in fact ones that can 'travel the spiral of consciousness' without limitation. Or maybe we are already doing it, but in a really slow pace. http://www.allsmileys.com/files/kolobok/icq/37.gif

And since I mentioned the dandelion, what I suppose one can think of might be just the principle of concentric spherical organization, represented on a two-dimensional plane as a circle.

Yes, I wonder... is the spectrum of possibilities of fractal forms also infinite? But what causes that consciousness to choose a particular form. I know our perception is limited; we can't see the whole design from within the spiraling fractal... but maybe the infinite creator, has foreseen his creations would become aware of the dazzling depths and beauty of the parts, to hint us that we should trust that the design is grand and well worth to stick around.

chocolate

22nd September 2014, 17:40

Thank you, Skyhaven, for your comments.

I have always wondered how deep do the fractals actually go, in and out and in all direction. But also, they are ((for me)) a bit of a lazy way to organize reality. I was considering them as one of the 'proofs' that this reality is somehow technically generated, and consciousness is translated into 'fractal' units to exist in fractal units of matter. I can easily imagine being able to generate a house = walls forming rooms etc, then creating a block out of it ( like a fractal unit of living ) and multiplying it until I cover the whole Earth with cities and countries. Of course, I will need tens or hundreds of fractal units to be able to generate some variety, and from there on. But the idea of having fractals speaks to me of some sort of a limited 'variety' of building blocks necessary to create a 'reality'. This, of course is the technical person speaking. The artist is having a coffee brake.
:)

Being able to go to a different level on the fractal organization scale/spiral I think has always been possible for an extend of people ( and perhaps not only people ) with more than the normal human ( 5 senses ) abilities -- shamans, healers, psychics of all sorts. Here I can give an example of the 'shape shifting' ability some people have. But I don't see it as a physical shape-shifting ( David Icke ), but as a 'different dimension' in which the shape-shifting occurs.

Another example are the true healers using herbs, food, essences, stones and other materials to cure ailments. From what I know they are able through psychic vision to access a level of information that gives them the ability to decide what is the best cure for given problem, being it physical health of some other mental, and so on, problem.

All of that occurs on that 'mirror' dimension Walter Russel mentions, which is what the astral plane in actuality can be seen as.

Skyhaven

22nd September 2014, 19:02

My intuition says these fractals are infinite in depth and height, but not only in 3D, but also in the other dimensions. In these dimensions they might not manifest the way they do in 3D though. The infinite property part makes everything 'whole', like a circle is whole and infinite in 2D. However in 3D the circle becomes a spiral, because the infinity property has to be uphold in the extra dimension to keep everything 'whole'. In 4D the spiral becomes something else, some form we cannot visualize...

It maybe 'technically' generated, but that depends on the definition of 'technical'. From our perceptive it can probably defined as very technical yes. :) But there's always some paradox lurking behind the corner, because the origin of something technical is often very simple from another perspective. How can something simple become very technical then? Maybe because it is gaining momentum because the amount of consciousness seems to be growing all the time and wants to express itself into something new. But then one would ask, if its growing then it had to start somewhere right, and I suppose thats where infinity comes a long again to wave hello.

So its all a matter of perspective for me, the spiral up seems very technical (but isn't from a higher perspective), the spiral down seems simple (but isn't from a deeper perspective).

Somehow we can all connect (and gain insight) from everything, since everything is connected, using a particular (focused) state of mind. I know I do this myself all the time... on a very subtle level information pours in, but I can't 'control' it (yet :)), its more like a background process. I am absolutely sure however one can gain more control over this, if one becomes more aware of these subtle 'background processes'.

chocolate

23rd September 2014, 13:08

Related to 'sacred' or circular/symmetrical geometry and the golden ratio is a film I was looking for few days ago provoked by one of the threads at the time.

I just found it, and am posting it here.

Why Beauty Matters

http://vimeo.com/55426796

I couldn't find a youtube video, so vimeo it is -- I hope the video loads up here well, and doesn't appear just as an internet link.

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Architecture is one of the main areas where technicality meets spirituality, and the matters of mathematics and the rest have been studied in depth from the start.
I was travelling several days ago in the dusk of the evening, wandering around the streets, and my attention went to a more classical building done in the style of European/Roman classic architecture lit up in warm interior light, pretty much glowing. And suddenly I felt how 'sacred' geometry and fractals have played this major role in life and in architecture as the outre shell of life's cycles.
At present the idea of 'free masonry' , religion and control are strongly connected, and hated, but for me the truth is as simple as creating a building, or many buildings, based on the principle of circular geometry and fractal proportions, so that this becomes the most natural outpouring mechanism of spiritual energy to enter the material realm, much like the chakras act as windows through which the inner and the outer connect, exchange and transmute energy, especially light.
In a way, the 'bad free masons' were just spiritually versed people, and when one such individual creates something, like the type of a building I described, he gives it a direct connection to the invisible/spiritual/mirror-image world, the 'astral' or universal layer. That is why in most epochs all great architects have become technical and artistic people initiated in the 'teachings' of the 'hermetic' or universal wisdom which is what spiritual wisdom is all about.

One example I studied for a few days:
The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Cathedral)

and the image that directly spoke to me ( the round window as a ' chakra' ) (( I am weird in many ways ))
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Cupola_di_santa_maria_del_fiore_dal_campanile_di_g iotto%2C_02.JPG/640px-Cupola_di_santa_maria_del_fiore_dal_campanile_di_g iotto%2C_02.JPG

chocolate

23rd September 2014, 16:01

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I am currently watching this video, and I think it does belong to this forum.

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chocolate

23rd September 2014, 18:44

I will definitely use the opportunity to stick around my own space without trying to write too fast to be the first to reply :).

So, I was saying some shape-related details about architecture. But I forgot to mention the most important one.
As some might have heard, architecture is frozen music.

This video Se8kcnU-uZw
and this one y5nbWUOc9tY
just reminded me of the importance of shape ( + material ), rhythm and composition/scale to the feeling of the atmosphere of the building ( via resonance/acoustics ). Here one needs to understand a building designed following the principles of the special geometry we had discussed, as a total 'dimensional' space.

Not to mention Pythagoras.

According to legend, the way Pythagoras discovered that musical notes could be translated into mathematical equations was when he passed blacksmiths at work one day and thought that the sounds emanating from their anvils were beautiful and harmonious and decided that whatever scientific law caused this to happen must be mathematical and could be applied to music.

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And not to mention Leonardo here, the space will just be not enough to write about him.

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I cannot sing, or play music, nor do I have extra perception developed as others have ( a miss on my part ), but I do have one thing, and that is a very definite 'feel' for space, light and color. It is almost too overwhelming at times. And yes, sometimes I see some music (http://attunedvibrations.com/432hz-vs-528hz/) in colors.

I was also thinking, I can spin around this thread the whole world with almost all of its peculiarities. Kind of boring, I know, that is why I will press the pause button and get some more recharging new information.

Skyhaven

23rd September 2014, 20:03

Wind

24th September 2014, 05:27

Chocolate, I neither am very musical in the sense that I could play anything (or maybe I'm just too critical of myself in that sense), but very much appreciate musical people and I guess I have never just really had the patience to pick up any instruments and learn to play or sing. My brother is a very talented musician and knows how to play guitar, piano and sings very well too. I think that guitar or drums might be good for me, but when it comes to using my voice, well that would require much more courage. My heightened senses too can appreciate and feel the vibration, colours and atmosphere around me. It's a good thing if only the surroundings are peaceful. :o

"Music ~ ... only music may span that space between the finite and the infinite ... music may be the means of arousing and awakening the best of hope, the best of desire, the best in the heart and soul of those who will and do listen. Is not music the universal language, both for those who would give praise and those who are sorry in their hearts and souls? Is it not a means, a manner of universal expression! Thus may the greater hope come." - Edgar Cayce reading 2156-1 (https://www.facebook.com/edgarcayce/posts/10152410830723785)

I was just reading about the frequency of 432Hz (https://www.facebook.com/WeAreOnePeople/photos/a.157600637765296.1073741828.117142171811143/281717028686989/?type=1) and saw your post here... :)

To understand the healing power behind 432Hz, you must first learn about another frequency, 8Hz. It is said that 8Hz is the fundamental “beat” of the planet. The heartbeat of the Earth is better known as Schumann resonance and is named after physicist Winfried Otto Schumann, who documented it mathematically in 1952.

Schumann resonance is a global electromagnetic resonance, which has its origin in electrical discharges of lightning within the cavity existing between the Earth’s surface and the ionosphere. This cavity resonates with electromagnetic waves in the extremely low frequencies of approximately 7.86Hz – 8Hz.

The “ordinary” thought waves created by the human brain range from 14Hz to 40Hz. This range only includes certain types of dendrites belonging to brain cells, predominantly within the left (the more rational) hemisphere of the brain, which is the center of activity.

If the two hemispheres of our brain are synchronized with each other at 8Hz, they work more harmoniously and with a maximum flow of information. In other words, the frequency of 8Hz seems to be the key to the full and sovereign activation potential of our brain.

8Hz is also the frequency of the double helix in DNA replication. Melatonin and Pinoline work on the DNA, inducing an 8Hz signal to enable metosis and DNA replication. A form of body temperature superconductivity is evident in this process.

According to the above information, playing and listening to music that has been tuned to 432Hz would make your body, and the organic world which surrounds it, resonate in a natural way. This would fill you with a sense of peace and well-being, regardless of the kind of song chosen to play or listen to.

Opening your ears for music that has been tuned to the “scientific” 432Hz frequency would benefit the entire planet and everyone who lives on it, while listening to music tuned to the “disharmonic” 440Hz frequency does harm by causing stress, negative behaviors and unstable emotions.

Listening to 432Hz music resonates inside your body, releases emotional blockages, and expands consciousness. 432Hz music allows you to tune into the knowledge of the universe around us in a more intuitive way.

432hz sounds fuller and nicer on the ear whereas 440hz sounds thinner. 432 Hz touches the full 12 scale octave overtones of all music, whereas the music of today vibrates at 440 Hz. This 440Hz only touches 8 scale octave overtones. 432hz music touches your heart which makes listening to music a more emotional experience.

High quality headphones are recommended. The sound should feel like it's inside your head, not coming through your ears, and your head should feel like a sound chamber. The industry standard is 440Hz which makes music sound like waves hitting your eardrums trying to penetrate into your head.

"Alpha waves in the human brain are between 6 and 8 hertz. The wave frequency of the human cavity resonates between 6 and 8 hertz. All biological systems operate in the same frequency range. The human brain’s alpha waves function in this range and the electrical resonance of the earth is between 6 and 8 hertz.

Thus, our entire biological system – the brain and the earth itself – work on the same frequencies. If we can control that resonate system electronically, we can directly control the entire mental system of humankind."

- Nikola Tesla

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chocolate

24th September 2014, 08:20

Some years ago I visited Barcelona, I was absolutely stunned by the architecture of a church named the Sagrada Familia, many of the constructs the architect used were directly inspired by nature (trees, plants, flowers):

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Thanks for that. :)
When I was graduating from the University I happened to be able to read through a book about Antoni Gaudí (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni_Gaud%C3%AD). ( the architect of that church you mentioned here, Skyhaven ).

I was doing at the time my final project, and in a conversation between us the students and the professor, I happened to mention that I was overwhelmed by the beauty of Gaudi's La Sagrada Familia. To which, of course, the response was: ' Didn't you find someone more serious to get excited about?'
... I have received quite a few comments such as that one.
:)

http://cdnfiles.hdrcreme.com/31330/medium/interior-of-sagrada-familia-in-barcelona.jpg?1315765605

Skyhaven

24th September 2014, 08:48

:)

This is one of the photo's I took, this about captured what amazed me most: i walked in with the expectation to be in a dark, gothic place, but instead there was light beaming in from the roof everywhere, making it really feel as if it was the roof of a forest.

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f101/BeyondtheOsiris/SAM_0230_zpsbe693691.jpg

TraineeHuman

24th September 2014, 08:49

Related to 'sacred' or circular/symmetrical geometry and the golden ratio is a film I was looking for few days ago provoked by one of the threads at the time.

I just found it, and am posting it here.

Why Beauty Matters

http://vimeo.com/55426796

What a film! I have always been desperately and utterly in love with beauty, since early adolescence at least. Beauty is so jam-packed with the fragrance of infinity at every twist and turn and tiny wisp of its expression. To me, love is only great because it is beautiful, and to the extent that it is beautiful. Beauty truly is a huge and complete and magical path to the fuller and higher reality, every bit as much as Truth is, and probably more so, I feel, for those who understand. This film just says so much, I'm absolutely stunned. It's not just the beauty that's expressed in art or architecture, but beauty in general. Thank you so much, chocolate. I'll have to re-view this video a couple of times to take it all in, because there's so much packed into it. Isn't life great?

chocolate

24th September 2014, 09:05

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I wanted to post an amazing book I learnt about listening to one of Sevan Bomaer's videos. It is directly showing the beauty of nature - the ocean, with amazing detail.

Art Forms of Nature (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunstformen_der_Natur)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Haeckel_Ascidiae.jpg/640px-Haeckel_Ascidiae.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Haeckel_Spumellaria.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Haeckel_Stephoidea_edit.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Haeckel_Narcomedusae.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/Haeckel_Anthomedusae.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Haeckel_Bryozoa.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Haeckel_Florideae.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/Haeckel_Lichenes.jpg

I have a pdf in German somewhere, but couldn't find it to link it here.

Skyhaven

24th September 2014, 09:09

Those are amazing drawings! Wow, thanks.

chocolate

24th September 2014, 09:16

The video I mentioned:
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Life is beautiful, TH. And love also. :)

Gothic Cathedrals do intent to represent the feeling of being in a forest, and to bring man closer to the higher realms as a feeling (at least) when inside them. I love their design. But that is an entire separate subject matter, that can fill a whole new thread.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Gothic_cathedral_ceiling_construction.jpg

Skyhaven

24th September 2014, 09:19

This video is about MC Escher, an artist that used a lot of mathematical nature-like patterns:

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Wind

24th September 2014, 09:19

Very beautiful images here, especially the Sagrada Familia church looks absolutely fantastic. :)

animovado

24th September 2014, 12:04

Wind

24th September 2014, 16:31

These might interest you. :)

Finding Your Passion Through Sacred Geometry (http://thespiritscience.net/2014/09/09/finding-your-passion-through-sacred-geometry/)

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http://thespiritscience.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Flower-of-Life-Candle.jpg

http://thespiritscience.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Transformation-candle-1.jpg

http://thespiritscience.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Transformation-candle-unassembled-1.jpg

http://thespiritscience.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/The-germ-of-life-earings-1.jpg

http://www.osa-opn.org/opn/media/Images/PhotoContests/2013/52-Contest13.jpg

chocolate

24th September 2014, 19:16

This video is about MC Escher, an artist that used a lot of mathematical nature-like patterns:

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http://blog.truffleshuffle.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/labyrinth_5.jpg

I think he has been using in his intuitive period the same principle onto which resides celtic, and probably any other, ornament design.

chocolate

24th September 2014, 19:20

I have a pdf in German somewhere, but couldn't find it to link it here.

Hi chocolate,
I searched the net and found two links:

Kunstformen der Natur.pdf (272mb) (http://caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/haeckel/kunstformen/Haeckel_Kunstformen.pdf)

Kunstformen der Natur.tar (16mb) (http://caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/haeckel/kunstformen/haeckel.tar)

Really beautiful pictures - thanks!

Hi animovado,
Thank you for the links. The quality of the scan is superb.
There was also an Eng. version with much less image quality.
But since I am interested mostly in the illustrations the fact I don't know the language of the issue is not a problem. The book, or the work, is really fascinating.

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Wind, I will watch the videos tomorrow, because right now am almost falling asleep on my desk.

<3 to all

Skyhaven

24th September 2014, 20:31

Talking about spirals: we all put a lot of emphasis on the rotational movement of our solar system, but actually it is more like a spiraling movement since the solar system moves at tremendous speed through the universe... the video below visualizes this.

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chocolate

25th September 2014, 06:03

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I remember I saw a Russian theory about the spiral movement of our solar system which merged in my mind with the idea of the greater galactic center theory I also learnt.
I have some more (very interesting for me) articles giving more detailed information about the energy of the Sun, and the spiral nature of our universal existence, I had read recently, which I will slowly post here.

But before that I wanted to include:
Nature-Inspired Structural Technique

http://ad009cdnb.archdaily.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/5421226ac07a8086fc0000c2_-shell-lace-structure-tonkin-liu-s-nature-inspired-structural-technique-_ribatonkinliushelllacestructure2103-530x353.jpg
http://www.archdaily.com/551062/shell-lace-structure-tonkin-liu-s-nature-inspired-structural-technique/

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Skyhaven

25th September 2014, 08:45

I just found a video where a guy is saying that the sun in a spiraling path following the star Sirius... interesting, I'm going to look into this some more...

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PS I just heard him say that the sun is also only reflecting light from sirius, but thats kind of ridiculous right... oh well an interesting idea nevertheless: stars following other bigger stars.

Edit: I have looked into it some more: there is no gravitational pull from sirius, its just too far away, so don't take this video too Sirius. :)

chocolate

25th September 2014, 10:21

I just made a new rule for the thread:
no 'external' logic allowed, only internal reflections on things.

:)

I'm joking. Everything's allowed.

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Harmonic Evolution
By Richard Merrick
http://www.tokenrock.com/harmonic_nature/harmonic_evolution.php

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To find our deepest connection to nature, we need look no further than the geometry of the human body. It is at the apex of creation, reflecting the beauty of the cosmos and embodying the order of its physics. Yet in spite of this self-evident truth, we still have very little understanding about why our bodies are shaped the way they are and how that might be connected with the evolution of human consciousness and society.

The contemporary Darwinian view from the fields of biology and anthropology hold that the appearance of life on Earth was driven by chance from the molecular level up, then adapted over time to survive better in a hostile environment. Indeed, the theory of evolution depends exclusively on natural selection and 'survival of the fittest' (with the occasional random mutation) to explain the shapes of the tiniest plants and organisms up through the largest animal. This theory is summed up with the oft-repeated phrase: 'If we could somehow restart life on Earth (or another planet) from the beginning, it would probably turn out completely different.'

Counter to this is the belief in 'Creationism' or 'Intelligent Design' (ID) whose proponents claim life was created by divine intervention (perhaps only a few thousand years ago) without need of any organic process on Earth. Considered by most scientists to be a blatant disregard or misreading of the archeological evidence to serve religious purposes, its popularity reveals a deep-seated desire by many to find meaning and purpose in a seemingly random universe.

As things stand today, Evolution and ID are the only explanations we have for life on Earth. Without a better explanation, most of us choose Darwin's theory as is, defending it without question in spite of the fact that it cannot tell us, for instance, why we have five fingers instead of six or a wave-like spine rather than a straight one. Everyone knows instinctively that something is missing in evolutionary theory to answer such questions, but what could it be?

Rethinking evolution

Consider the possibility of a third choice - one compatible with evolution but leaving the door open for a spiritual connection. What if there is a less obvious but universal property in Nature that physically guides evolution from somewhere beneath the environmental process of natural selection to carve the basic shapes of life? As radical as this may sound to modern ears, there are a number of good reasons why this may be the case. Common sense alone would tell us that for natural selection to be the only explanation for why life appears as it does, the fossil record should have many times the variations found.
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Atomic resonance and damping

All life on Earth is composed mostly of carbon-12 and water. This is the case because carbon-12 bonds or resonates with more simple elements than any other element in the universe. It is for this very reason that carbon-12 is the international standard for atomic weight and all other elements are measured against it. With 6 protons + 6 neutrons in its nucleus and 6 electrons orbiting in two shells, carbon-12 exhibits the lowest possible energy of all the elements and is said to be 'unbound,' thereby creating the most stable atomic geometry possible. When mixed with water, carbon-12 creates endless chains of sticky amino acids capable of crystallizing into life.

This idea of life as a crystallization process is a good one because just as minerals align under pressure into lattices, coils of amino acids fold into three-dimensional protein structures and align into the familiar helical lattice of DNA. It is the geometric bonding pressure of hydrogen atoms in water that help create the lattice and give DNA its twist.

In recent molecular studies of water, biochemist Martin Chaplin found that water organizes itself naturally into a lattice of icosahedral clusters, just as Greek philosopher Plato suggested more than two millennia ago. Water really does resemble the 12-pointed, 20-faceted geometry of an icosahedron.

The water lattice begins as 4-fold tetrahedral units of 14 water molecules, each aligning into 20 icosahedral clusters of 280 molecules. This structure then assumes a variety of stable geometric sub-structures, such as its complementary opposite dodecahedron, which form into larger 'superclusters.' At this mesoscopic scale of water, molecules arrange themselves into a 2-dimensional connectivity map of a regular 5-fold pentagon. [Chaplin 2009]

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But water is only half of the equation of life. While it never made the news, another recent study found that the first step of enclosure needed for a single cell to live is actually a geometrical folding of carbon molecules.

A 2006 publication of the American Chemical Society entitled Tb3N@C84: An Improbable, Egg-Shaped Endohedral Fullerene that Violates the Isolated Pentagon Rule reported that a large Fullerine carbon-84 allotrope constructed its own egg-like cage when two adjacent pentagons in the carbon molecule became fused together in a reaction with terbium.

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Discovered by a combined team from the University of California, Virginia Polytechnic and Emory and Henry College, this was the first indication that the regular soccer ball geometry of hexagons and pentagons in a large carbon Fullerine could wrap itself into an egg-like cage by reacting with another atom, thereby producing a uniquely organic geometry known as a quasi-crystal.

This discovery could answer a lot of questions. For one thing, it tells us that it was probably the egg that came before the chicken. No seriously! This is how amino acids could have 'learned' to form cells around themselves and even offers a reasonable explanation for why ribcages form around vital organs in all vertebrate animals. It also shows how the harmonic balance between pentagonal and hexagonal molecular geometry could self-organize into life.

In each of these studies, we can begin to see how evolution is guided by geometric harmonies at the mesoscopic scale of carbon-water bonding. The 5-fold damping geometry of water fuses with the resonant 12-fold geometry of carbon-12 atoms, growing into living harmonic crystals out of inanimate matter. Music harmony works the same way.

Musical scales usually divide a circular octave into twelve steps called semi-tones. This 12-step octave is then divided into two scale groupings - one 7-tone major or minor scale and a remaining 5-tone pentatonic scale. This is found on a piano keyboard as seven white keys comprising a C major (or A minor) scale and five black keys of an F# pentatonic scale. When applied to the human body, life can be described in musical terms as a repeating carbon-12 octave resonating against the pentatonic damping geometry of water which creates the twisting 7-step 'diatonic' framework of our body. It is no coincidence that the musical term 'diatonic' literally means 'through the body' and that the ancient Hindu chakra system indicates seven locations in the body. This is really a very old idea.

The theory that life grows as kind of musical geometry has provenance with Pythagoras at least 2,500 years ago. Known as musica universalis (or in the body as musica humana), it was the ancient world's Theory of Everything. Greek philosophers personified musical forces in nature as gods and goddesses, such as the god of music Apollo and the counterbalancing goddesses Harmonia and Eris (Roman Concordia and Discordia). Discarded long ago by Western science and abandoned in our schools, we are now finding solid evidence to support the idea that musica universalis could well be true. Life really does appear to be the result of some kind of musica atomica bubbling up from infinity.

From the perspective of atomic resonance, Darwinian evolution can be seen as a veneer of adaptation that depends on a preexisting and universal harmonic system intrinsic to all nature. Simple life resonates into uni-body and 3-fold carbon-12 shapes while more complex forms succumb to the 5-fold damping effect of water, branching out at approximated golden sections into pentagonal clusters, such as roses, starfish and the human anatomy. As the most resonant life form of all, we humans exist at the razor's edge of atomic harmony, perfectly balanced by nature to achieve consciousness and ponder our own existence.

Perhaps it is time we update Darwin's 19th century theory of evolution to include atomic resonance acting in concert with natural selection. And maybe the first goal for this new theory of harmonic evolution should be to explain how 12:5 atomic geometry came to be preserved in the genetic code.

The hidden geometry in DNA
A recent paper by physician and independent researcher Mark White entitled The G-ball, a New Icon for codon symmetry and the Genetic Code proposed that the codon table of the genetic code follows the shape of a 12:5 dodecahedron or 20:12 icosahedron.

Since there are exactly four nucleotides in DNA that combine in sequences of three to produce sixty-four codons (4^3 = 64), White suggested that the genetic code organizes itself into the shape of tetrahedrons which then combine into the shape of a spherical dodecahedron or icosahedron - exactly like clusters of water molecules.

Following the equilateral genetic structure predicted by Russian physicist and cosmologist George Gamow, White explains how the twenty edges of a dodecahedron (or twenty triangular faces of its dual icosahedron) can be used to represent the 20 standard amino acids in DNA. The amino acids are then assigned locations in the geometry according to their water affinity (how much they like or dislike water).

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From this, protein bonds into sequences of amino acid tetrahedrons, forming into a dodecahedron that is then twisted by hydrogen around a fixed polar backbone into the 10-step spatial symmetry of the DNA double helix. [White 2007]

Another study by Chi Ming Yang at Nankai University in China claims to have also found a quasi-periodic egg geometry in the human genetic code that parallels Mark White's G-Ball model.

Derived from the same building blocks of 20 standard amino acids and 64 tri-nucleotide codons in DNA, Yang found a cooperative vector-in-space addition principle that stretches into an ellipsoid or egg-like shape called an icosikaioctagon. Not surprisingly, this geometry was determined to have originated as five 'stereochemical' growth stages over a period of millions of years. [Yang 2003].

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So when we combine Yang's geometric model with White's G-ball model, we have the universal archetype for all life - a 5-fold 'egg' with a 12-fold 'yolk' inside. Through the harmonic physics of atomic resonance and damping, nature has engineered DNA with its own eggshell container to protect the geometric evolution of life over time.

While the idea that DNA is encoded geometrically as an egg is surprising, this knowledge appears to date back even before Pythagoras. As a symbol of balance in life, early philosophers seem to have understood it as an instance of the golden mean - cubed in its length and doubled in its width - derived from the square root of 5 in a pentagram.

As example, Aesop's fable of The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs, based on a much older Egyptian story, probably has more to do with how life grows harmonically inside a golden proportioned egg than it does the precious metal. In an ancient worldview based on the physics of music, the 5-fold pentatonic eggshell could have been seen as a container for a 12-fold octave yolk, therein producing the 7-fold diatonic balance of life.

But even with growing evidence for harmonic structures in DNA and all life, one last puzzle must be solved to fully understand how atomic resonance guides evolution. In particular, how do carbon and water atoms 'know how' to arrange themselves into larger and larger harmonic structures? And while resonance in amino acids appears to start the crystallization process at the mesoscopic level of life, what can we say causes this to continue outward into the macro structures of highly evolved organisms?

Space as a cymatic 'egg' container

It is a well-known fact that sound will produce regular geometric patterns when particles of powder are vibrated on plates or inside liquid containers. Known as cymatics (from the Greek word for 'wave'), researchers such as Ernst Chladni in the 18th century and Hans Jenny in the 20th century have shown how harmonic waves reflect inside containers to form circles, triangles, pentagons, hexagons and other more elaborate mandala-like patterns.

These patterns are produced by stable standing waves reflecting inside a container, automatically forming additional harmonic waves that interfere geometrically. It is really the harmonics that 'know how' to create cymatic geometry by simply crossing one another at whole number proportions. The same thing appears to happen between atoms and in DNA as harmonics guide the formation of life with the only difference being space itself acts as the 'golden egg' container.

According to quantum theory, space is not actually an empty void but instead a very fine cubic lattice of tiny vortices, often described as a Schwarzschild lattice. Usually modeled as a recursive multi-dimensional Hilbert space, atoms always center around one of these spiraling vortices inside a cube. Since atoms can only exist inside one of these cubes at a time, all material objects - including planets and people - must blink on and off in tiny 'quantum steps' as they move through space. Light and other electromagnetic energy also blinks on and off, but is able to flow freely as alternating currents in between these cubes in the lattice by spinning off the edges (or event horizons) of the atomic vortices. This explains how x-rays and cosmic rays are able to pass right through solid objects.

So, when we now consider carbon and water atoms resonating together inside the container of the quantum Schwarzschild lattice - pressurized into spherical bubbles by gravity - the atoms and molecules in living tissue would naturally entrain and resonate together into larger and larger cymatic patterns, exactly like powder vibrated inside a spherical container of water. For life, it is the cubic structure of space and the pressure of its gravitational 'egg' that have the 'know how' to arrange vast numbers of harmonically resonating molecules into life-size crystalline structures.

In the human body, resonating atoms, molecules and cells have little choice but to 'intelligently' self-organize into the 24 vertebrae of our spinal column that ripples outward with less and less energy to the tips of our 10 fingers and 10 toes. Here again we find the body described as a (24 / 10) / 2 or 12:5 carbon-water crystal resonating into the cymatic container of the quantum lattice. It is not a matter of metaphysics to say that life is frozen musical light formed by spherical harmonics in a structured space.

But life is not the only thing shaped by resonance and damping in the framework of space. Harmonic physics were at work millions of years ago in our solar system to create an egg-like environment within which life could begin evolving in the first place. As our solar system formed out of a cloud of swirling plasma, the same pressure differential and gravity bubble guiding harmonic evolution on Earth can also be used to describe the evolution of the planets.

Stabilizing into a golden spiral around a central axis, twelve calm rings began to form out of interfering waves of hot plasma as they bounced back and forth from the Sun to the 'eggshell' of the outermost Kuiper astroid belt. With the Sun rotating around itself in the center of our solar system, the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, asteroid belt of Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and Eris each resonated into position like an enormous solar keyboard. Spaced by spherical harmonic plasma waves resonating inside the gravity bubble of space, they settled at near quarter turns on the Sun's spiraling arms, still remaining today as the heliospheric current sheet.

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Like a resonating plate of swirling plasma inside the nurturing egg of space, the planets had no choice but to resonate into concentric golden orbits according to the same 12:5 cymatic geometries found in the human body. Harmonics create the same patterns in all things.

With this we must finally admit that the evolution of life was not only guided harmonically from the inside-out but also from the outside-in. The outside-in resonance of our solar system set the stage on Earth for the inside-out atomic resonance of carbon-12, meeting in the middle waters of Earth to create the perfect balance needed for life and consciousness to evolve. Coherent standing waves, defined mathematically by the Schrödinger wave function and harmonic oscillator of quantum mechanics, have been working at every scale of nature since the beginning of time to guide the geometric crystallization of energy into matter - large and small, inanimate and animate.

Harmonically guided social evolution
As life slowly resonated into the reflective self-awareness of consciousness, human society also began to evolve into coherent, purposeful civilizations. Guiding this social evolution was the ancient wisdom of harmonic science and philosophy, translated into the mythological gods that brought purpose and order to people's lives. As a grand scientific musical theory of everything, this was the golden age of musica universalis.

But in modern times, this musical theory of everything has totally disappeared. The harmonic models of nature no longer guide our understanding of how things came to be as they are. Instead, natural selection and divine intervention are the only reasons we are given to explain the magnificent order and beauty we see around us. We live in a world now guided by theories of creation and life that completely ignore the central role harmonic physics plays in all things.

If mankind is to survive, the truth of harmonic evolution must one day be rediscovered and accepted. When it is, the walls between biology, anthropology, psychology, acoustics, quantum physics and all other fields of science will come crumbling down like the Berlin wall. Life will be seen as part of a whole and harmonically unified universe, falling under the purview of quantum physics. The quantum effects of subatomic harmonic systems will then become the driving force behind all biological and medical research, leading to any number of unimaginable scientific advancements.

As society's thinking shifts, Western religion will change too, transforming into temples of natural learning. The Gnostic study of sacred geometry and musical proportions will once again infuse our culture with a new respect and appreciation for nature. Everyone from the staunchest atheist to the most dogmatic fundamentalist will no longer struggle to deny the truth of a coherent musical universe.

Today's conventional wisdom that 'restarting life on Earth (or another planet) would turn out completely different' would be replaced by the deeper understanding that 12:5 geometry is as much a universal constant as the circular resonance of Pi or the square damping of Phi - woven into the very fabric of space itself.
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With the acceptance of universal harmonic laws, we will be certain that life is also evolving in other harmonically balanced solar systems and that it cannot be too much different than our own. We will finally understand the cosmos as the purpose-driven incubator for life that it really is.

In a world once more described by musica universalis, an empathy and deep appreciation for all life will take root, guiding us to peaceful coexistence through the inevitable next step in nature's harmonic progression -- human spiritual evolution.

Cont. in Part 2

chocolate

25th September 2014, 10:29

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Musica universalis or Harmony of the Spheres incorporates the metaphysical principle that mathematical relationships express qualities or "tones" of energy which manifest in numbers, visual angles, shapes and sounds – all connected within a pattern of proportion.
Pythagoras first identified that the pitch of a musical note is in proportion to the length of the string that produces it, and that intervals between harmonious sound frequencies form simple numerical ratios.
Pythagoras proposed that the Sun, Moon and planets all emit their own unique hum (orbital resonance) based on their orbital revolution,[2] and that the quality of life on Earth reflects the tenor of celestial sounds which are physically imperceptible to the human ear.
Subsequently, Plato described astronomy and music as "twinned" studies of sensual recognition: astronomy for the eyes, music for the ears, and both requiring knowledge of numerical proportions.

chocolate

25th September 2014, 10:36

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The Egg
By: Andy Weir (http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html)

You were on your way home when you died.
It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death. The EMTs tried their best to save you, but to no avail. Your body was so utterly shattered you were better off, trust me.
And that’s when you met me.
“What… what happened?” You asked. “Where am I?”
“You died,” I said, matter-of-factly. No point in mincing words.
“There was a… a truck and it was skidding…”
“Yup,” I said.
“I… I died?”
“Yup. But don’t feel bad about it. Everyone dies,” I said.
You looked around. There was nothingness. Just you and me. “What is this place?” You asked. “Is this the afterlife?”
“More or less,” I said.
“Are you god?” You asked.
“Yup,” I replied. “I’m God.”
“My kids… my wife,” you said.
“What about them?”
“Will they be all right?”
“That’s what I like to see,” I said. “You just died and your main concern is for your family. That’s good stuff right there.”
You looked at me with fascination. To you, I didn’t look like God. I just looked like some man. Or possibly a woman. Some vague authority figure, maybe. More of a grammar school teacher than the almighty.
“Don’t worry,” I said. “They’ll be fine. Your kids will remember you as perfect in every way. They didn’t have time to grow contempt for you. Your wife will cry on the outside, but will be secretly relieved. To be fair, your marriage was falling apart. If it’s any consolation, she’ll feel very guilty for feeling relieved.”
“Oh,” you said. “So what happens now? Do I go to heaven or hell or something?”
“Neither,” I said. “You’ll be reincarnated.”
“Ah,” you said. “So the Hindus were right,”
“All religions are right in their own way,” I said. “Walk with me.”
You followed along as we strode through the void. “Where are we going?”
“Nowhere in particular,” I said. “It’s just nice to walk while we talk.”
“So what’s the point, then?” You asked. “When I get reborn, I’ll just be a blank slate, right? A baby. So all my experiences and everything I did in this life won’t matter.”
“Not so!” I said. “You have within you all the knowledge and experiences of all your past lives. You just don’t remember them right now.”
I stopped walking and took you by the shoulders. “Your soul is more magnificent, beautiful, and gigantic than you can possibly imagine. A human mind can only contain a tiny fraction of what you are. It’s like sticking your finger in a glass of water to see if it’s hot or cold. You put a tiny part of yourself into the vessel, and when you bring it back out, you’ve gained all the experiences it had.
“You’ve been in a human for the last 48 years, so you haven’t stretched out yet and felt the rest of your immense consciousness. If we hung out here for long enough, you’d start remembering everything. But there’s no point to doing that between each life.”
“How many times have I been reincarnated, then?”
“Oh lots. Lots and lots. An in to lots of different lives.” I said. “This time around, you’ll be a Chinese peasant girl in 540 AD.”
“Wait, what?” You stammered. “You’re sending me back in time?”
“Well, I guess technically. Time, as you know it, only exists in your universe. Things are different where I come from.”
“Where you come from?” You said.
“Oh sure,” I explained “I come from somewhere. Somewhere else. And there are others like me. I know you’ll want to know what it’s like there, but honestly you wouldn’t understand.”
“Oh,” you said, a little let down. “But wait. If I get reincarnated to other places in time, I could have interacted with myself at some point.”
“Sure. Happens all the time. And with both lives only aware of their own lifespan you don’t even know it’s happening.”
“So what’s the point of it all?”
“Seriously?” I asked. “Seriously? You’re asking me for the meaning of life? Isn’t that a little stereotypical?”
“Well it’s a reasonable question,” you persisted.
I looked you in the eye. “The meaning of life, the reason I made this whole universe, is for you to mature.”
“You mean mankind? You want us to mature?”
“No, just you. I made this whole universe for you. With each new life you grow and mature and become a larger and greater intellect.”
“Just me? What about everyone else?”
“There is no one else,” I said. “In this universe, there’s just you and me.”
You stared blankly at me. “But all the people on earth…”
“All you. Different incarnations of you.”
“Wait. I’m everyone!?”
“Now you’re getting it,” I said, with a congratulatory slap on the back.
“I’m every human being who ever lived?”
“Or who will ever live, yes.”
“I’m Abraham Lincoln?”
“And you’re John Wilkes Booth, too,” I added.
“I’m Hitler?” You said, appalled.
“And you’re the millions he killed.”
“I’m Jesus?”
“And you’re everyone who followed him.”
You fell silent.
“Every time you victimized someone,” I said, “you were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness you’ve done, you’ve done to yourself. Every happy and sad moment ever experienced by any human was, or will be, experienced by you.”
You thought for a long time.
“Why?” You asked me. “Why do all this?”
“Because someday, you will become like me. Because that’s what you are. You’re one of my kind. You’re my child.”
“Whoa,” you said, incredulous. “You mean I’m a god?”
“No. Not yet. You’re a fetus. You’re still growing. Once you’ve lived every human life throughout all time, you will have grown enough to be born.”
“So the whole universe,” you said, “it’s just…”
“An egg.” I answered. “Now it’s time for you to move on to your next life.”
And I sent you on your way.

Wind

25th September 2014, 17:45

I once posted this to my thread, but I guess it will fit here as well. :)

vpiwFVzo08c

chocolate

25th September 2014, 18:54

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Geometry, programmed death might have enabled evolution of multicellularity

http://cdn.phys.org/newman/gfx/news/2014/geometryprog.jpg

Writing in the journal PLOS Computational Biology, Libby and colleagues argue that genetically-programmed cell death likely evolved along with multicellularity, laying the foundations for the reproduction of multicellular organisms.

The team took inspiration for their results from a recent experiment on yeast. In that study, researchers repeatedly grew the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae in test tubes and selected whatever sank to the bottom for more growth. Because the yeast cells that stuck together tended to sink, larger clusters survived this artificial selection

So too did rudimentary reproduction: when one cluster got too big, it would simply break apart, forming two distinct organisms. But a more counterintuitive trait evolved as well—individual cells that were programmed to die sooner than their unicellular ancestors.

One reason, Libby says, is space. In the multicellular yeast creatures, each cell can split in two, forming new branches along which the organism grows. But if the multicellular organisms grow too large, they'll start to compete with each other for nutrients and eventually crowd each other out. Unabated, that trend would limit the success of the new species. With cells born to die quickly, however, an organism can avoid that fate. Rather than suffocate itself, cells die, breaking one creature into two more manageably-sized ones.

Other mechanisms might be "just as beneficial, but since death is a natural part of most organisms, it is wise to co-opt it in such a way to benefit the living," Libby says. "We must view the group organism as a completely new environment, one in which traits like cell death might have different consequences" for the health of living things.

Original Article (http://phys.org/news/2014-09-geometry-death-enabled-evolution-multicellularity.html#inlRlv)

As does the macro so does the micro? :)

chocolate

25th September 2014, 19:06

Skyhaven, it is in my current understanding that the Sun is not something that can reflect light. It is a source of what we call light, and more. About the more I have something special selected to post.
But it is very possible that the Sun is connected to the invisible to us energy generated by a bigger center.

I like the spiral way of understanding the movement of the solar system, but I don't think this is as important as the nature of the system itself.
We seem to always look for the exterior / material / logical / technical explanation of something that has more conceptual and 'spiritual' role.

We all have a mini-Sun inside of us (where male female energy get together and start evolving). It is called in eastern terms lower dantian. We also have a central Sun - the heart dantian (the love center). And we have a higher self or did I mean Sun, located in the area of the head, namely the higher dantian.
So we are all 'made of' Suns/ stars.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HB5ihpRkSXE/U3TMwCdoRJI/AAAAAAAADwU/SVtZ0H0F3mA/s1600/Dan-Tian.png

Here I did not even mention the astral body. :)

But as some say my knowledge is only superficial, so don't trust me.
But do trust Taoist masters when they say it is so.

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SMALL HEAVENLY CIRCUIT
The Qigong Way to Immortality

http://www.robertpeng.com/shc/

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Skyhaven

25th September 2014, 19:43

Mine IS superficial, given what my 5 senses can perceive, and my brain can think of, no doubt...I say so myself.. reminds me of something I picked up here: "what you can see you cannot know, but what you can know you cannot see". Maybe it all comes down to the intuitive knowledge of the heart (sun) that only reveals as much is needed, the rest is hidden. So maybe this is the same for the physical sun; only revealing that which should be seen, the rest she hides.

chocolate

26th September 2014, 09:49

Okay so there comes the Sun.
( I feel the Sun is both She and He )

This is by far my favorite article.
I will post it, but will not have the time to comment today, so if anyone wants to add to this, will be first.
I will add my part probably tomorrow.

Detecting neutrinos, physicists look into the heart of the Sun

http://cdn.phys.org/newman/gfx/news/hires/2014/image1(7).jpg
Inside view of the Borexino stainless steel sphere, prior to nylon vessel installation and fluid filling. The sphere is 13.7 meters in diameter; the picture was taken from the bottom looking upwards. There are 2212 installed photomultipliers (PMTs) to detect light from neutrino interactions, most of which equipped with aluminium light concentrators to focus their view on the central volume of the detector. The central flange is where the nylon vessels and fluid piping was anchored. Nylon vessel installation was in 2004, final fluid filling in 2007. Credit: Borexino Collaboration

http://phys.org/news/2014-08-neutrinos-physicists-heart-sun.html

Using one of the most sensitive neutrino detectors on the planet, an international team of physicists including Andrea Pocar, Laura Cadonati and doctoral student Keith Otis at the University of Massachusetts Amherst report in the current issue of Nature that for the first time they have directly detected neutrinos created by the "keystone" proton-proton (pp) fusion process going on at the sun's core.

The pp reaction is the first step of a reaction sequence responsible for about 99 percent of the Sun's power, Pocar explains. Solar neutrinos are produced in nuclear processes and radioactive decays of different elements during fusion reactions at the Sun's core. These particles stream out of the star at nearly the speed of light, as many as 420 billion hitting every square inch of the Earth's surface per second.
Because they only interact through the nuclear weak force, they pass through matter virtually unaffected, which makes them very difficult to detect and distinguish from trace nuclear decays of ordinary materials, he adds.
The UMass Amherst physicist, one principal investigator on a team of more than 100 scientists, says, "With these latest neutrino data, we are directly looking at the originator of the sun's biggest energy producing process, or chain of reactions, going on in its extremely hot, dense core. While the light we see from the Sun in our daily life reaches us in about eight minutes, it takes tens of thousands of years for energy radiating from the sun's center to be emitted as light."
"By comparing the two different types of solar energy radiated, as neutrinos and as surface light, we obtain experimental information about the Sun's thermodynamic equilibrium over about a 100,000-year timescale," Pocar adds. "If the eyes are the mirror of the soul, with these neutrinos, we are looking not just at its face, but directly into its core. We have glimpsed the sun's soul."

"As far as we know, neutrinos are the only way we have of looking into the Sun's interior. These pp neutrinos, emitted when two protons fuse forming a deuteron, are particularly hard to study. This is because they are low energy, in the range where natural radioactivity is very abundant and masks the signal from their interaction."
The Borexino instrument, located deep beneath Italy's Apennine Mountains, detects neutrinos as they interact with the electrons of an ultra-pure organic liquid scintillator at the center of a large sphere surrounded by 1,000 tons of water. Its great depth and many onion-like protective layers maintain the core as the most radiation-free medium on the planet.

http://cdn.phys.org/newman/gfx/news/hires/2014/13-capture.jpg

ndeed, it is the only detector on Earth capable of observing the entire spectrum of solar neutrino simultaneously. Neutrinos come in three types, or "flavors." Those from the Sun's core are of the "electron" flavor, and as they travel away from their birthplace, they oscillate or change between two other flavors, "muon" to "tau." With this and previous solar neutrino measurements, the Borexino experiment has strongly confirmed this behavior of the elusive particles, Pocar says.

This is only part of the article, so if anyone has the capacity may be can enjoy the full text of the article.

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And now one can go back to the Kybalion to read through it ( or hear it ) once more.
:)

chocolate

26th September 2014, 15:53

Yes, life seems to be fun sometimes. Just don't ask me which roads I have been guided to take to reach some places.

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Few things to consider reading the above article:

- Astral fluid as prime matter (http://forum.alchemyforums.com/showthread.php?1470-astral-fluid-as-prime-matter);

- Thought transference called also Telepathy - I am reading this (http://www.philaletheians.co.uk/Study%20notes/Constitution%20of%20Man/Subba%20Row%20on%20thought%20transference.pdf) right now;

- Sun being called the father, number 1, the positive, the light of life, or in physics terms equivalent to (+)
- Earth the Mother, the void, the crucible, the negative, or in physics terms equivalent to (-) ( remembering how important is grounding )
- and there should be someplace for the spirit or the soul essence, too

And it all gets much better from there on.

Biophotons: The Human Body Emits, Communicates with, and is Made from Light (http://themindunleashed.org/2014/08/biophotons-human-body-emits-communicates-made-light.html)
Increasingly science agrees with the poetry of direct human experience: we are more than the atoms and molecules that make up our bodies, but beings of light as well. Biophotons are emitted by the human body, can be released through mental intention, and may modulate fundamental processes within cell-to-cell communication and DNA.

Nothing is more amazing than the highly improbable fact that we exist. We often ignore this fact, oblivious to the reality that instead of something there could be nothing at all, i.e. why is there a universe (poignantly aware of itself through us) and not some void completely unconscious of itself?

Consider that from light, air, water, basic minerals within the crust of the earth, and the at least 3 billion year old information contained within the nucleus of one diploid zygote cell, the human body is formed, and within that body a soul capable of at least trying to comprehend its bodily and spiritual origins.

Given the sheer insanity of our existential condition, and bodily incarnation as a whole, and considering that our earthly existence is partially formed from sunlight and requires the continual consumption of condensed sunlight in the form of food, it may not sound so farfetched that our body emits light.

Indeed, the human body emits biophotons, also known as ultraweak photon emissions (UPE), with a visibility 1,000 times lower than the sensitivity of our naked eye. While not visible to us, these particles of light (or waves, depending on how you are measuring them) are part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum (380-780 nm) and are detectable via sophisticated modern instrumentation.

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I hope I managed if not to connect dots, at least to put some dots in the open space, so anyone interested in following my train of though to manage and see if I am on the right track.
Science is catching up and coming closer to the spiritual side of existence, which are just the same thing, the latter with a more (w)holistic way, but it still needs some bridges built between the two.

That is where this forum should be heading, in my humble female opinion.

But, it is always a matter of choice.

We can carry on talking about @liens and darkness instead of seeing the light.

Greeting, and love also,
:)

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http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/files/2014/09/hs-2006-46-a-large_web-600x595.jpg
And this is, an embryo? No, that's the Milky Way. It is also a spiral.
http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2014/09/17/milky-way-mysteries-mapped/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_fb20140918ngnw-milkyway&utm_campaign=Content&sf4692675=1
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chocolate

27th September 2014, 08:04

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I had this teacher in the University. One day he stood in front of the green board ( I come from that time when the boards were still green ), and put four dots in the middle of it. Those when combined with straight lines would form a square, or rectangle, depending on his drawings skills. And he presented his whole lecture with those four dots. At the end he said that he could have made a square, but it is much more interesting to see the dots and create the square in one's mind, than to just give the truth from the start, which in fact is many truths.

Those architects... dangerous species.

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Some more to come... or not.
:)

chocolate

27th September 2014, 08:29

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A 3D printed lantern inspired by the drawings of Ernst Haeckel.
The lamp is comprised almost entirely of natural materials, primarily recycled maple

http://www.emergingobjects.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/lamp1.jpg

http://www.emergingobjects.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/lamp3.jpg

http://www.emergingobjects.com/projects/lamprocyclas-raelsanfratellis/

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http://www.emergingobjects.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/quake_column2.jpg

http://www.emergingobjects.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/quake_column7.jpg
now isn't that something I have already seen ...someplace ... so cool.

http://www.emergingobjects.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/quake_column4.jpg

http://www.emergingobjects.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/quake_column3.jpg

http://www.emergingobjects.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/quake_column.gif

That was ... Quake Column

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Cristian

27th September 2014, 08:45

from The Particle - The wrong turn that led physics to a dead end (http://oaxismundi.blogspot.ro/2010/10/particle-wrong-turn-that-led-physics-to.html)

Synergetics
Replacing the outdated Cartesian system

We are living in a period of such absurdly blind acceptance of the Cartesian system of co-ordinates, based on the cube structure with three axes in 90 degree co-ordination developed more than four centuries ago. Instead, more recently, Buckminster Fuller, came out with a much more natural way of co-ordinate system based on his invention of the geodesic dome, a structure of triangularly-interconnected elements that has the best ratio of weight to enclosed space of any artificial construction so far developed. More recently, Fuller has received much public acclaim for having predicted, with his geometry, the existence of spherical molecules. The experimental discovery of the Buckminster fullerene, a spherical and extraordinarily stable large molecule of carbon, is only a few years old.

http://www.blazelabs.com/.%5Cpics%5Ctetrasphere.gif

Departing from convention, this geometry replaces the cube with the regular tetrahedron as its principal unit of volume. The four-sided tetrahedron is the simplest possible enclosure, which is why mathematicians call it a "simplex". Drawn as a cage, or wire frame, it has four windows, four corners and six edges. No space-enclosing network has fewer windows (facets) than four.

The cube (or hexahedron), by contrast, has six facets, eight corners, and twelve edges.Given the status of the simplex as "simplest space-enclosing network", the decision to use its regular form as a unit of volume makes some sense. As a consequence of this decision, we obtain whole number volumes for other familiar shapes (including for the cube).

Fuller's geometry goes by the name of Synergetics and has been developed by experimentally observing the behaviour of spheres of equal diameter, when packed as close as possible to form regular geometric figures. The basic and most simple stable geometric configuration of synergetic geometry is the tetrahedron, formed by four spheres laying next to each other, in perfect triangular configuration forming four angles of 60 degrees. Other important elements are the octahedron (formed by six closest-packed spheres) and the vector equilibrium, which is the result of twelve spheres nested around a thirteenth, central sphere, in omnidirectional closest-packing, 60 degree co-ordinated configuration. The cube, which is at the basis of our present-day construction methods and of the x-y-z Cartesian co-ordinate system, is not in and by itself a stable configuration. Eight spheres forming a cube are inherently unstable. To gain stability, they must be artificially stabilised by interconnecting them in the way the tetrahedron is connected. In this way, two tetrahedra of four spheres each, joined at their respective centers, form one cube of eight spheres. The cube and dodecahedron are both space-fillers, meaning they fill space without gaps. The tetrahedron and octahedron fill space in complements with twice as many tetrahedra as octahedra.

http://www.blazelabs.com/.%5Cpics%5Ccubeanim.gif

It happens that this geometry, as developed by Fuller, is in perfect accord with how crystals grow in their various forms, and that its application in engineering reveals to us the possibility of very efficient structures in terms of economy of raw materials and strength of the resulting construction.
Now how could the discoveries of Fuller be utilised to form a co-ordinate system and why should we venture to do such a task, seeing that the Cartesian x-y-z co-ordinates have done perfect (or almost perfect) service for such a long time?

For one, Cartesian co-ordinates may be a convenient mathematical construct, but they do not accord with nature's ways any more than modern chemistry will ever be able to duplicate the conditions of living organisms.

http://www.blazelabs.com/.%5Cpics%5C12round1.gif

From waves to particles
by standing waves in space

We have shown that the atom can be perfectly modeled by a standing wave pattern much in common with that of a radio antenna. The problem to visualise matter as being composed of a volume of electromagnetic waves is the fact that matter has got a structure, whilst an EM wave does not. It is true that EM waves have no structure, and are continously vibrating, but EM waves can be 'trapped' within a volume of space, given their dimensions are exact multiples of Planck's half wavelength, forming what is commonly called a standing wave.

The nodes within the standing wave form the structure. All objects have a frequency or set of frequencies with which they naturally vibrate when struck, plucked, or somehow given an impulse, these are called the natural frequencies. Each of the natural frequencies at which an object vibrates is associated with a standing wave pattern. When an object is forced into resonance vibrations at one of its natural frequencies, it vibrates in a manner such that a standing wave is formed within the whole object.
A standing wave pattern is described as a vibrational pattern created within a medium when the vibrational frequency of a source causes reflected waves from one end of the medium to interfere with incident waves from the source in such a manner that specific points along the medium appear to be standing still. Such patterns are only created within the medium at specific frequencies of vibration; these frequencies are known as harmonic frequencies, with the first harmonic referred to as the fundamental. In our context, this fundamental harmonic is highly related to Planck's length.
At any frequency other than a harmonic frequency, the interference of reflected and incident waves results in a resulting disturbance of the medium which is irregular and non-repeating. Our medium is the vacuum through which EM radiation is well known to be able to propagate and vibrate.

http://www.blazelabs.com/.%5Cpics%5Cplatinum.gif
Tip of a platinum needle enlarged 750,000 times.
Are those 'hard particles' or standing waves?

http://www.blazelabs.com/.%5Cpics%5Ctungstentip.gif
Field ion microscope image of a 'single crystal' tungsten tip.
Are those 'hard particles' or standing waves?

http://www.blazelabs.com/.%5Cpics%5Cwater_osc.gif
Water standing waves formed with vertical oscillation in a circular dish

http://www.blazelabs.com/.%5Cpics%5Ccymaticnew.jpg

Cristian

27th September 2014, 11:34

http://www.osa-opn.org/opn/media/Images/PhotoContests/2013/52-Contest13.jpg

Nice pic Wind :)

Still from here (http://oaxismundi.blogspot.ro/2010/10/particle-wrong-turn-that-led-physics-to.html)

Platonic Solids & States of matter
What's so important about them?

Plato's Timaeus conjectures on the composition of the four elements which the ancient Greeks thought made up the universe: earth, water, air, and fire. Plato conjectured each of these elements to be made up of a certain Platonic solid: the element of earth would be a cube, of air an octahedron, of water an icosahedron, and of fire a tetrahedron. Each of these perfect polyhedra would be in turn composed of triangles. Only certain triangular shapes would be allowed, such as the 30-60-90 and the 45-45-90 triangles. Each element could be broken down into its component triangles, which could then be put back together to form the other elements.

Thus, the elements would be interconvertible, so this idea was a precursor to alchemy. Plato's Timaeus posits the existence of a fifth element (corresponding to the fifth remaining Platonic solid, the dodecahedron) called quintessence, of which the cosmos itself is made. In three dimensional space, there are ONLY FIVE natural frequency modes for spherical EM standing wave, resulting in the formation of the five Platonic solids shown below.

Each platonic would be perceived as the formation of a stable form of matter, anything in between will tend to be unstable, and will degrade to its nearest stable form, giving off its extra elements as EM energy, with radioactive elements being such an example.

STATE : SOLID (Earth)

http://www.blazelabs.com/.%5Cpics%5Cmatter1.gif
http://www.blazelabs.com/.%5Cpics%5Cplatohexa-s.gif

Molecules are limited to vibration about fixed position. Solids have a definitive volume and shape and high density. When energy is applied to a solid (eg heated) the solid becomes a liquid at its melting point. The solid phase is the lowest energy state of matter. See Hutchison effect. Speed of sound in steel is 5960m/s, for glass 5640m/s.

STATE: LIQUID (Water)

http://www.blazelabs.com/.%5Cpics%5Cmatter2.gif
http://www.blazelabs.com/.%5Cpics%5Cplatoicosa-s.gif

Molecules free to move throughout the liquid but held by intermolecular forces, giving it a definitive volume but no definite shape and a lower density. When energy is applied, evaporation occurs and it becomes a gas at its boiling point. If energy is lowered it becomes a solid at its freezing point. Speed of sound in water is 1482m/s.

STATE: GAS (air)

http://www.blazelabs.com/.%5Cpics%5Cmatter3.gif
http://www.blazelabs.com/.%5Cpics%5Cplatoocta-s.gif

In gas state, molecules are free to move in every direction, and a gas has no definite shape or volume and its density is lower than liquids. When energy is applied, electrons gain enough energy to leave the atom structure and a gas starts getting ionised. When fully ionised it becomes a plasma. See sonoluminescence. If energy is lowered a gas becomes a liquid. Speed of sound in air is approx 343m/s but dependant on pressure, temperature. For Helium it is 965m/s!

Cristian

27th September 2014, 11:35

STATE: PLASMA (Fire)

http://www.blazelabs.com/.%5Cpics%5Cmatter4.gif
http://www.blazelabs.com/.%5Cpics%5Cplatotetra-s.gif

When a gas is given energy, molecules are torn apart into their component atoms and individual electrons are pulled away. This highly energised mixture of electrons and ions forms the plasma. If energy is lowered, plasma becomes gas. If plasma is given further energy, the atom structure within it is broken into its constituent electromagnetic energy and can no longer be considered a state of matter. Indeed the Plasma phase is the highest energy state of matter.

STATE: VACUUM (Universe)

http://www.blazelabs.com/.%5Cpics%5Cnomatter.gif
http://www.blazelabs.com/.%5Cpics%5Cplatododec-s.gif

The vacuum (or ether) has a structure as well. Vacuum is made up of pure electromagnetic energy, which can be re organised in any of the other platonic structures to be perceived as one of the other states of matter. Vacuum is a sea of electromagnetic energy which cannot be detected unless an imbalance is created (example: casimir plates).

chocolate

27th September 2014, 16:18

As far as I can see, Cristian,
We seem to be repeating some of the information here, aren't we?

I guess I am not against Plato in any way. The pyramid and the cube are both 'discovered' together. And as I remember a cube can be placed inside and outside a sphere, just as your 4-sided pyramid inside, but not outside, at least not in any case.
So I suspect ... both can work, as far as a sphere is concerned. Or can they? :)
I think I just answered why the cube has been accepted as the more universal solid, and from there the, oh so bad, co-ordinate system based on the cube.

I wonder, instead of labeling the current state of what is accepted in physics or otherwise, may be we can carry on with the new information?

And, BTW, the 'atom' is also under the influence of consciousness, at one point as a possibility (wave with a parameter that changes), and in the next as actuality (as a final condition).

:)

But, I am no physicist.
So may be I should leave this to those who know more physics, or some other science.

Cheers.
I am back on my own. Too much fire influence, I am sure. I will wait for some calm waters.

chocolate

27th September 2014, 16:24

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Addition to post # 123 (funny)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Inka_mauern_cuzco.jpg
Walls built by Inca in Cuzco/Peru

Cristian

27th September 2014, 16:29

I have to admit I didn't followed this thread and yes I did repeat some things. Will be more careful next time!

Do carry on , I find your posts on this issue fascinating!

chocolate

27th September 2014, 16:31

'Oh, thank you.'
Relieved said she.
I do read, you know. And I do digest what I read. Mostly.

( nice try )

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“TO LIVE LIFE, one needs to be strong in KNOWLEDGE rather than in body. Strength of body is like having a fine tool to do better work with, but no tool can produce work by itself and a weak mind cannot order a tool to do masterly work. The most important contributions to power and happiness in the world of man are knowledge and STRENGTH OF CHARACTER. Be strong and know, for life lies before you. You have to live it. You cannot evade it. Why not, therefore, live it masterfully?

Never doubt your power to be ‘jack-of-all-trades’ – and master of all of them! GIVE of your SELF and you will discover that all the power in all the universe is yours to give. It is at the moment of your first giving of Self that you discover your omnipotence.”

Source: ‘Why You Cannot Die’, 1972, by Lao Russell

chocolate

28th September 2014, 06:05

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"That which is generated must be radiated. This is the Law."

Walter Russell

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6148/5930492696_4af4c4577e_b.jpg

chocolate

28th September 2014, 06:18

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There is but ONE COSMIC SUBSTANCE -- MIND
MQLEUzEngPs

The Unwinding of the Cosmic Clock Spiral by W.Russel
http://pondscienceinstitute.on-rev.com/imagesCOS/UNIVER~9.JPEG

chocolate

28th September 2014, 06:29

http://okafala.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/dsc01806.jpg

http://okafala.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/dsc01803.jpg

http://okafala.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/dsc01794.jpg

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http://okafala.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/dsc01802.jpg

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chocolate

28th September 2014, 06:47

And for some fun:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Musaeum_Hermeticum_1678_I._Clavis_AQ30_Key_1.tif/lossy-page1-1200px-Musaeum_Hermeticum_1678_I._Clavis_AQ30_Key_1.tif.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Musaeum_Hermeticum_1678_II._Clavis_AQ30_Key_2.tif/lossy-page1-1200px-Musaeum_Hermeticum_1678_II._Clavis_AQ30_Key_2.tif.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Musaeum_Hermeticum_1678_p_398_III._Clavis_AQ27.tif/lossy-page1-1134px-Musaeum_Hermeticum_1678_p_398_III._Clavis_AQ27.tif.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Musaeum_Hermeticum_1678_IV._Clavis_AQ32_Key_4.tif/lossy-page1-1200px-Musaeum_Hermeticum_1678_IV._Clavis_AQ32_Key_4.tif.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Musaeum_Hermeticum_1678_V._Clavis_AQ33_Key_5.tif/lossy-page1-1200px-Musaeum_Hermeticum_1678_V._Clavis_AQ33_Key_5.tif.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Musaeum_Hermeticum_1678_VI._Clavis_AQ34_Key_6.tif/lossy-page1-1190px-Musaeum_Hermeticum_1678_VI._Clavis_AQ34_Key_6.tif.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Musaeum_Hermeticum_1678_VII_Clavis_AQ35_Key_7.tif/lossy-page1-1167px-Musaeum_Hermeticum_1678_VII_Clavis_AQ35_Key_7.tif.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Musaeum_Hermeticum_1678_VIII._Clavis_AQ36_Key_8.tif/lossy-page1-1200px-Musaeum_Hermeticum_1678_VIII._Clavis_AQ36_Key_8.tif.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Musaeum_Hermeticum_1678_IX._Clavis_AQ37_Key_9.tif/lossy-page1-1074px-Musaeum_Hermeticum_1678_IX._Clavis_AQ37_Key_9.tif.jpg

to be cont.

chocolate

28th September 2014, 06:48

Cont.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Musaeum_Hermeticum_1678_X._Clavis_AQ38_Key_10.tif/lossy-page1-1116px-Musaeum_Hermeticum_1678_X._Clavis_AQ38_Key_10.tif.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Musaeum_Hermeticum_1678_XI._Clavis_AQ39_Key_11.tif/lossy-page1-1200px-Musaeum_Hermeticum_1678_XI._Clavis_AQ39_Key_11.tif.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Musaeum_Hermeticum_1678_XII._Clavis_AQ40_Key_12.tif/lossy-page1-1200px-Musaeum_Hermeticum_1678_XII._Clavis_AQ40_Key_12.tif.jpg

And the Lion ate the snake...

Source: Basilius Valentinus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Valentine)

chocolate

28th September 2014, 06:54

And I thought I can add this here:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Triskel_type_Amfreville.svg/654px-Triskel_type_Amfreville.svg.png

A triskelion or triskele (which invariably has rotational symmetry) is a motif consisting of three interlocked spirals, three bent human legs, or three bent/curved lines extending from the center of the symbol. (According to WIKI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triskelion))

chocolate

28th September 2014, 11:55

So, going back to Walter Russell, and to my 'dandelion' speculation, for which I knew is going to hit close to home--

The Law of One ( but not that one )

http://www.svpvril.com/Cosmology/lawofone.gif

And I have a sphere here, crossed by the 3 planes related to the three parts of the law, and ... this forms the cube.

chocolate

28th September 2014, 12:13

the above schematic when looked as a flat 2D image from the top ( or any of the sides ):

http://www.american-buddha.com/schopenwill.137.gif

and can be also seen as this:
( the two vertical angles of the triangles form the vertical axis, while the cross section at the sides -- the side axis )
http://ce399.typepad.com/weblog/images/serpent_1.jpg

chocolate

28th September 2014, 12:19

http://www.levity.com/alchemy/images/rosecrs4.jpg

and

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7c/SophiaMystical.jpg

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They all speak of the same one thing, among the many meanings one can ascribe to them --
the constant flow
from The One
through individuation to The Many
and back to the One,
all done following the law(s) of Order from the Chaos.

Wind

28th September 2014, 17:59

I wondered if I should post these to my thread or here? I already got a bit dizzy, but there could be also other reasons for it too... :)

Dizzying Animated GIFs by Dave Whyte (http://theinspirationgrid.com/dizzying-animated-gifs-by-dave-whyte/)

Digital artist Dave Whyte creates incredible mathematical animated GIFs

“The Dublin-based PhD student is currently studying the physics of foam and tells us his first geometric gifs riffed on computational modules he was exploring while in undergrad. As interest in the work grows Whyte is focusing more on his artistic side, pushing the boundaries of these small animations created with the Processing programming language. He’s now able to fully envision each animation before coding it, making tweaks to color, timing, and measurements along the way.”

http://theinspirationgrid.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/motion-dave-whyte-06.gif

http://theinspirationgrid.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/motion-dave-whyte-04.gif

http://theinspirationgrid.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/motion-dave-whyte-10.gif

http://theinspirationgrid.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/motion-dave-whyte-08.gif

http://theinspirationgrid.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/motion-dave-whyte-07.gif

http://theinspirationgrid.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/motion-dave-whyte-03.gif

http://theinspirationgrid.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/motion-dave-whyte-05.gif

http://theinspirationgrid.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/motion-dave-whyte-01.gif

chocolate

28th September 2014, 18:12

Oh,... well,
I love the dancing dots.
Yes, definitely a bit dizzy. And after dinner. :o

Wind

28th September 2014, 18:15

Sorry, though sometimes it feels a bit funny to be dizzy. :p

Skyhaven

28th September 2014, 20:03

TXPpQmgD85E

chocolate

29th September 2014, 09:54

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Do We Have the Big Bang Theory All Wrong?
From http://nautil.us/issue/15/turbulence/do-we-have-the-big-bang-theory-all-wrong

A professor of astrophysics at the University of Bonn in Germany, Hans-Jörg Fahr has taken a stand against nearly the entire field of cosmology by claiming that the diffuse glow of background microwave radiation which bathes the sky is not, as is commonly believed, a distant echo of the Big Bang, the universe’s fiery moment of creation. The idea held by the cosmology community that tiny temperature fluctuations in this microwave background tell us about the clumpiness of the early universe, he says, is wrong. The rank and file cosmologist may as well be doing Rorschach tests.

Understandably, his ideas have met with skepticism among many. Glenn Starkman, a professor of physics and astronomy at Case Western Reserve University, puts it this way: “If you seek to replace a successful theory with an alternative, then [you] must demonstrate that your alternative explains a similarly full range of phenomena… In this task [Fahr and his colleagues] have not done due diligence.” But at the same time, Fahr’s ideas are rooted in physics that has already been proven in other systems, and they make falsifiable predictions. Pressed to defend his controversial position, the unorthodox theorist stands his ground. Whether he likes it or not, Fahr has become a cosmological iconoclast.

Throughout the 1970s and ’80s, Fahr says he wholeheartedly supported the conventional Big Bang models of the universe while he pursued his own research into space physics. He’s made important contributions to the study of the solar wind (the stream of electrons and protons issuing from the sun) and the far solar system, where the solar wind slams into the gas and dust of interstellar space. He coined the term “heliopause” to describe this border region, which the Voyager spacecraft are now exploring today. When he turned 65 in 2005, Fahr’s colleagues organized a symposium in his honor that focused on unsolved problems in solar wind physics. A colleague of Fahr’s at the University of Bonn describes him as “one of the cleverest people around here.”

In parallel with his successes in the physics of the solar wind, Fahr also pursued a more unorthodox line of inquiry. In the 1990s he became aware of what were, in his opinion, curious gaps in the standard interpretation of the cosmic microwave background. The universe is a clumpy place, filled with vast voids interspersed with narrow, stringy filaments of galaxies and galaxy clusters. Yet the microwave background is staggeringly uniform in temperature, to one part in 1,000. Cosmologists usually assume that the microwave background’s homogeneity reflects the homogeneity of the universe as it was shortly after the Big Bang. To get from this smooth-as-cream beginning to today’s spotty universe full of voids and filaments, cosmologists add a clumping agent to their model: mysterious dark matter particles, whose existence remains unconfirmed.

No one has yet tried to observe the cosmic background radiation in the infrared, in part because it would be very difficult.

Fahr objects that this is just using one unknown to explain another unknown, and that there has to be a simpler solution. “If you take it seriously that you have a structured universe, then you need different models than used in [mainstream] cosmology,” says Fahr. “You need to pay attention to the fact that you have void and wall structures in the universe. And the expansion of the void structures is different from the expansion of the wall structures. And all of that makes the cosmos very much more complicated.”

With this in mind, Fahr set off to find a phenomenon that would naturally cause the universe to emanate a smooth microwave glow from all directions in space, like a glowing ember at a few degrees above absolute zero. He says he found one. “There was never a recombination event,” Fahr says of his model of the microwave background. “In my view [the microwave background] is just a kind of entropy feature of the cosmos as it is.”

In debating the interpretation of the cosmic microwave background, Fahr joins a long and distinguished line of heterodox astrophysicists, including the celebrated astronomers Halton Arp, Sir Fred Hoyle, and the Nobel Prize winner Hannes Alfvén. These skeptics have ascribed the microwave background to assortments of glowing clouds of gas, dust, and charged particles throughout the galaxy and nearby universe. These clumps of molecular interlopers, they claim, translate starlight bouncing around the universe into a quiet and dim bath of microwave light, a little bit like how the Earth’s atmosphere scatters blue sunlight to produce the daytime sky.

The problem with these alternative models has been that the cosmic microwave background is not patchy, like gas, dust, and charged particles are. It’s hard to see how patchwork quilts of clouds and plasmas can add up to a smooth, omnidirectional microwave glow.

In a controversial 2009 paper in the journal Annalen der Physik, Fahr suggested an answer to this problem, drawing on his own deep expertise in the solar wind. Space probes voyaging throughout the solar system for the past five decades have detected unexpected hot and cold spots in the solar wind as it works its way past the planets and toward interstellar space. These result from a kind of turbulent interaction of photons with other photons—an interaction which is usually impossible, but is enabled by the mediation of charged particles inside the solar wind.

In 2009 Fahr says he began to realize that the vacuum of space itself has a kind of remote kinship to a plasma. After all, modern physics describes the vacuum as frothy with virtual electric charges blipping into existence only to annihilate and blip back out again. Typically, though not always, these virtual particles are electrons and their antimatter counterparts positrons. So Fahr wondered: If the vacuum is an electron-positron plasma, then why wouldn’t it also enable the same photon-photon interactions that occur inside the solar wind?

If this were happening, then empty space itself could be the source of the microwave background. The photons of starlight that have been streaming through the universe over millions and billions of years interact with each other over time, gradually achieving a kind of thermal equilibrium, and translating hot point-sources of starlight into a dull all-sky glow. “It’s a very slow process which is operating,” says Fahr. “However, assuming you have time enough, then the diffusion is bringing you from stellar emissions to background emissions.”

Fahr says the effect should be observable in the lab. If laser light of a single wavelength were bounced back and forth in a vacuum for a half-year or more, its color should begin to smear, with some photons slipping into slightly higher wavelengths and others into slightly lower ones. “It is like a simulation of free space—like photons passing through cosmic space,” Fahr says. “I am predicting that the photons are not independent of each other in the long run. They interact with each other and redistribute their energies to other energies and other wavelengths.”

Fahr also suggests another experimental test that could decide between standard and alternative interpretations of the microwave background. According to conventional cosmology, the microwave background harkens back to when the universe had cooled enough to become transparent to light for the first time, about 300,000 years after the Big Bang. Previous to this cosmic epoch of “recombination,” the universe had been a dense and opaque plasma through which light could not propagate. When plasmas recombine, they produce a burst of light at a set of wavelengths characteristic of the energy levels of the hydrogen atom. This so-called “Lyman series” of spectral lines is a familiar landmark for anyone studying the behavior of plasmas in astronomy. But no evidence of a Lyman series has been observed in measurements of the microwave background.

That doesn’t mean that such a series doesn’t exist. Fahr notes that any cosmic Lyman spectral lines would be strongly Doppler shifted over the past 13.5 billion years, and so would be strongest in the infrared part of the spectrum. No one has yet tried to observe the cosmic background radiation in the infrared, in part because it would be very difficult. The Milky Way galaxy is even noisier in the infrared than it is in the microwave, making cosmic signals even harder to tease out from contaminating foreground galactic noise. This year’s big cosmic microwave background discovery—claiming to uncover evidence of gravitational waves practically from the moment of the universe’s genesis, but potentially contaminated by foreground signals—offers a cautionary tale in this regard.

But if scientists looked for a Lyman spectrum in the infrared, and didn’t find it, it would be another chink in modern cosmology’s armor.

Joan Solà, a cosmologist at the University of Barcelona, gives points to Fahr for the ingenuity of his theory, but isn’t convinced. “His playing around with numbers is entertaining, but he cannot provide a closed story that is internally consistent in itself,” Solà says.

For example, one of the arguments Fahr makes for his vacuum microwave background theory is that it can explain the observed ratio of photons to matter particles in the universe (it’s 1 billion to one). But Solà points out that one of the numbers Fahr uses for this calculation (the ratio of hydrogen to helium in the universe) comes right out of standard Big Bang theory itself, making the argument internally inconsistent.

Fahr counters that, while Big Bang theories correctly predict helium-to-hydrogen ratios, some recent studies have found much less lithium in the universe than they predict, whereas some non-Big Bang models have claimed a better fit. By questioning the ratios of elements created through nucleosynthesis in the early universe, and the interpretation of the microwave background, Fahr is attacking two of the three main pillars of evidence supporting standard Big Bang theory. The third pillar is based on the observation that the farther away a galaxy is, the greater its redshift, which suggests that our universe is expanding. Yet in his 2009 paper, Fahr cites one study from 1993 that argues for a similar distance-redshift relationship in a non-expanding universe—one which had no Big Bang.

From Solà’s perspective, such doubting of the standard Big Bang model can quickly devolve into crackpot science. But he does not count Fahr as a crackpot. “I cannot stand kooks and illuminated fools,” Solà says. “Of course Fahr is nothing at all of this sort… He is a real scientist, and a good one by the way. But this is one thing, and the other is to buy all his ideas.” Even though he is a skeptic of Fahr’s unorthodox cosmology, Solà says the debate itself has value. “Science makes progress only because we disagree from time to time with the ancient ideas. So it is good to keep trying.”

I posted the whole article here for further use, if anyone is interested.

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Andromeda
http://webbtelescope.org/webb_telescope/science_on_the_edge/beyond_the_visible/graphics/compared/andromeda-big.jpg

Jupiter
http://webbtelescope.org/webb_telescope/science_on_the_edge/beyond_the_visible/graphics/compared/jupiter-big.jpg

Carina Nebula Pillar
http://webbtelescope.org/webb_telescope/science_on_the_edge/beyond_the_visible/graphics/compared/carina-big.jpg

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'Science giveth, and science taketh away'

Originally I started the thread with the idea to give it some more philosophical, or spiritual if that would read better here, direction.
But at the same time, probably because this is the most complex matter I can imagine, it is understandable how I pushed it in the area of pure science - physics, biology, mathematics, and so on. I have spent a lot of time in different types of observation, but at present gathering more spiritual understanding, at a time when the whole of this world starts realigning its understanding more to the universal areas of area of philosophy than to the object-driven past hundreds of years, it is becoming a pleasure to be able to observe how science and spirit converge and dance together much more often when given the chance and the necessary for that to happen conditions.

I also have observed the appearance and unfolding of similar to this threads, and how each one is unique with its inherent specifics and direction given by those who have created them.
From my standpoint, when combined they give a much richer and complete picture of what surrounds us, a picture of 'becoming'.

Probably because of my own personal choices and preferences, science on itself gives me the sense of a more cold and technical approach to something alive and complex. That is why in order not to lose the site of the forest for the separate trees, I wanted to post two videos with John Van Auken, and subsequently an article.

63RkVC8WhIA

Cristian

29th September 2014, 11:28

Originally I started the thread with the idea to give it some more philosophical, or spiritual if that would read better here, direction.
But at the same time, probably because this is the most complex matter I can imagine, it is understandable how I pushed it in the area of pure science - physics, biology, mathematics, and so on. I have spent a lot of time in different types of observation, but at present gathering more spiritual understanding, at a time when the whole of this world starts realigning its understanding more to the universal areas of area of philosophy than to the object-driven past hundreds of years, it is becoming a pleasure to be able to observe how science and spirit converge and dance together much more often when given the chance and the necessary for that to happen conditions.

https://vanessaharts.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/artimagination-11.jpg

chocolate

29th September 2014, 12:06

:)

More like that: http://r.weavesilk.com/?v=4&id=ifcqrmldw1

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You are always welcome to post, because you add heart to your physics.

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Listening to The Emerald Tablets of Thoth:
Tablet 4
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Wind

29th September 2014, 13:39

I like spirit and science, when they are combined. That's why I like this channel (https://www.facebook.com/thespiritscience). After all, that's what this forum should be about! :)

"For He has promised to meet thee in thine own temple, in thine own body, through thine own mind . . . And then enter into the holy of holies, within thine own consciousness; turn within; see what has prompted thee. And He has promised to meet thee there. And there shall it be told thee from within the steps thou shouldst take day by day, step by step. Not that some great exploit, some great manner of change should come within thine body, thine mind, but line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little, there a little. For it is, as He has given, not the knowledge alone but the practical application--in thine daily experience with thy fellow man--that counts." - Edgar Cayce reading 922-1 (https://www.facebook.com/edgarcayce/posts/10152419486398785)

FSmdSw9eEIA

chocolate

29th September 2014, 15:39

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Another one of my favorite videos:
QBFj97eOzb8

Very much on topic here.

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Skyhaven

29th September 2014, 18:22

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Another one of my favorite videos:
QBFj97eOzb8

Very much on topic here.

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It went into my list of favorites too. Thank you.

chocolate

30th September 2014, 13:15

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The human body expresses complexities beyond imagination.

This presentation reveals the beauty of that perfection by showing its relationship to sacred geometry, the underlying metaphysical principle of Divine Proportion, or the Golden Mean.

A Lecture by Sue Brown ( doesn't look like much of a post, but this is probably one of the most uplifting and informative lectures I have heard, or seen, in a while ): http://www.theosophicalinstitute.org/medialibrary/viewtitle.php?titleid=5DFF2DDC-72A2-43F3-B9FA-CCFD1C750405&file=D1B6FCED-F85C-424B-A94F-3BB1CDB3F5F2#D1B6FCED-F85C-424B-A94F-3BB1CDB3F5F2

chocolate

30th September 2014, 15:59

chocolate

1st October 2014, 19:21

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10685337_10152733582369589_941667118302808909_n.jpg?oh=2aeeb6391f731fe0235fc0f27bb00439&oe=54BF5ACE&__gda__=1422059511_50225f770fc813e4e80f046bdaa2eca7
A horizontal section through A Brain?

Simulations reveal an unusual death for ancient stars
http://phys.org/news/2014-09-simulations-reveal-unusual-death-ancient.html

chocolate

2nd October 2014, 09:11

Has a big problem with a tiny particle revealed a brand new force of nature?
Curious goings-on at the heart of the atom may be pointing to a new force of nature
From NewScientist (http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929262.100-particle-puzzle-honey-i-shrunk-the-proton.html#.VC0PvX40lNs)

https://scontent-b-ams.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/t31.0-8/10624053_10152732250919589_480658739408665879_o.jpg

Until recently, it was unthinkable to question the size of the proton. Its radius is so well known that it appears on lists of nature's fundamental constants, alongside the speed of light and the charge of an electron. So when Randolf Pohl and his colleagues set out to make the most accurate measurement of the proton yet, they expected to just put a few more decimal places on the end of the official value. Instead this group of more than 30 researchers has shaken the world of atomic physics. Their new measurement wasn't just more accurate, it was decidedly lower. The proton had apparently been on a diet.

Freak results do turn up from time to time in physics. Witness the furore in 2011 over the neutrinos that appeared to travel faster than light and whose unbelievable powers were traced months later to a dodgy cable connection. Yet the proton puzzle first came to light in 2009, and several experiments later we are running out of ways to explain how the particle can have seemingly shrunk. No experimental flaws have been found. The theory has been checked and rechecked. Physicists are now facing the possibility that a new phenomenon is at work. Has a big problem with a tiny particle revealed a brand new force of nature?

It wouldn't be the first time we have had to rethink the physics inside the atom. Rewind 100 years and the atom is pictured as a miniature solar system, with negative electrons as planets orbiting a sun-like bundle of positive protons and neutrons at the center. Holding it all together is a force – not the gravity that influences the whole solar system, but electromagnetism.

[...]

Perhaps the protons are actually changing size. According to quantum chromodynamics, the theory that describes the inner workings of a proton, the idea isn't totally implausible. It says that a proton can sometimes distort when receiving a photon from an orbiting electron – a bit like how the oceans gravitate towards our orbiting moon to form tides. Such a distortion can unsettle the normal hopping of photons from electrons or muons to protons, and in turn affect the Lamb shift.

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So, it turns out that according to some current scientific data:

- the universe is not what it has been thought to be, starting from the 'big bang' which probably wasn't a big bang at all, as it is understood right now, see this post (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69656-The-Unenlightened-Thread-Demystifying-the-Apple&p=883222&viewfull=1#post883222);

- the existence of the 'black holes' is under question:
Mysterious quasar sequence explained (http://phys.org/news/2014-09-mysterious-quasar-sequence.html), posted on a previous page;

- the protons are not what they have been thought to be, in size as well as in appearance, as shown in this current post above;

- probably not just the protons will keep appearing differently, but electrons, and the whole 'atom' as well;
Ultracold atoms juggle spins with exceptional symmetry (http://phys.org/news/2014-09-ultracold-atoms-exceptional-symmetry.html)

- that there are particles who travel apparently faster than the speed of light, something even I know to be lying outside the scientific 'thinking box';

- light can be manipulated with magnetic fields;
article here: http://phys.org/news/2014-09-defying-physics-magnetic-field.html#jCp

- Fluid mechanics suggests alternative to quantum orthodoxy:
http://cdn.phys.org/newman/gfx/news/2014/fluidmechani.jpg
http://phys.org/news/2014-09-fluid-mechanics-alternative-quantum-orthodoxy.html#jCp

Is the universe a stable quantum system?
http://phys.org/news/2014-09-universe-stable-quantum.html#ajTabs

etc.

So I guess, we do need to rethink what we have been thought to believe, and the way we observe the world.

May be, perhaps, there is indeed no box, but only the idea of it and the idea that we definitely need to fit in it...

Just some thoughts of mine.

Cristian

2nd October 2014, 09:41

- that there are particles who travel apparently faster than the speed of light, something even I know to be lying outside the scientific 'thinking box';

In 2011, the OPERA experiment mistakenly observed neutrinos appearing to travel faster than light. Even before the mistake was discovered, the result was considered anomalous because speeds higher than that of light in a vacuum are generally thought to violate special relativity, a cornerstone of the modern understanding of physics for over a century.[1][2]

OPERA scientists announced the results of the experiment in September 2011 with the stated intent of promoting further inquiry and debate. Later the team reported two flaws in their equipment set-up that had caused errors far outside their original confidence interval: a fiber optic cable attached improperly, which caused the apparently faster-than-light measurements, and a clock oscillator ticking too fast.[3] The errors were first confirmed by OPERA after a ScienceInsider report;[4] accounting for these two sources of error eliminated the faster-than-light results.[5]

Faster-than-light neutrino anomaly (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light_neutrino_anomaly)

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:P

chocolate

2nd October 2014, 09:52

Dimension-hop may allow neutrinos to cheat light speed
Source: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20957-dimensionhop-may-allow-neutrinos-to-cheat-light-speed.html#.VC0enn40lNs

A CERN experiment claims to have caught neutrinos breaking the universe's most fundamental speed limit. The ghostly subatomic particles seem to have zipped faster than light from the particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, to a detector in Italy.

Fish that physics textbook back out of the wastebasket, though: the new result contradicts previous measurements of neutrino speed that were based on a supernova explosion. What's more, there is still room for error in the departure time of the supposed speedsters. And even if the result is correct, thanks to theories that posit extra dimensions, it does not necessarily mean that the speed of light has been beaten.

"If it's true, it's fantastic. It will rock the foundation of physics," says Stephen Parke of Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois. "But we still have to confirm it."

Neutrinos are nearly massless subatomic particles that are notoriously shy of interacting with other forms of matter. An experiment called OPERA (Oscillation Project with Emusion tRacking Apparatus) sent beams of neutrinos from a particle accelerator at CERN to a detector in the Gran Sasso cavern in Italy, 730 kilometres away.

The neutrinos arrived 60 nanoseconds sooner than they would have if they had been travelling at the speed of light, the team says.

Supernova contradiction

If real, the finding will force a rewrite of Einstein's theory of special relativity, one of the cornerstones of modern physics (and a theory whose predictions are incorporated into the design of the accelerators at CERN). "It's not reasonable," says theorist Marc Sher of the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.

One problem is that the CERN result busts the apparent speed limit of neutrinos seen when radiation from a supernova explosion reached Earth in February 1987.

Supernovae are exploding stars that are so bright they can briefly outshine their host galaxies. However, most of their energy actually streams out as neutrinos. Because neutrinos scarcely interact with matter, they should escape an exploding star almost immediately, while photons of light will take about 3 hours to get out. And in 1987, trillions of neutrinos arrived 3 hours before the dying star's light caught up, just as physicists would have expected.

The recent claim of a much higher neutrino speed just doesn't fit with this earlier measurement. "If neutrinos were that much faster than light, they would have arrived [from the supernova] five years sooner, which is crazy," says Sher. "They didn't. The supernova contradicts this [new finding] by huge factors."

Fuzzy departure

It's possible that the neutrinos that sped to the Italian mine were a different type of neutrino from the ones streaming from the supernova, or had a different energy. Either of those could explain the difference, Sher admits. "But it's quite unlikely."

A measurement error in the recent neutrino experiment could also explain the contradiction.

"In principle it's a very easy experiment: you know the distance between A and B, you know how long it takes the neutrinos to get there, so you can calculate their speed," Parke says. "However, things are more complicated than that. There are subtle effects that make it much more difficult."

For instance, although the detectors in Italy can pinpoint the neutrinos' time of arrival to within nanoseconds, it's less clear when they left the accelerator at CERN. The neutrinos are produced by slamming protons into a bar-shaped target, sparking a cascade of subatomic particles. If the neutrinos were produced at one end of the bar rather than the other, it could obscure their time of flight.

Sher also mentions a third option: that the measurement is correct. Some theories posit that there are extra, hidden dimensions beyond the familiar four (three of space, one of time). It's possible that the speedy neutrinos tunnel through these extra dimensions, reducing the distance they have to travel to get to the target. This would explain the measurement without requiring the speed of light to be broken.

Antonio Ereditato with the OPERA collaboration declined to comment until after a seminar to be held at CERN today at 4 pm Geneva time.

Extraordinary evidence wanted

In the meantime, Parke is reserving judgement until the result can be confirmed by other experiments such as the MINOS experiment at Fermilab or the T2K experiment in Japan.

"There are a number of experiments that are online or coming online that could be upgraded to do this measurement," he says. "These are the kind of things that we have to follow through, and make sure that our prejudices don't get in the way of discovering something truly fantastic."

In 2007, the MINOS experiment searched for faster-than-light neutrinos but didn't see anything statistically significant.

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Another POV:

Neutrinos don't outpace light, but they do shape-shift

The faster-than-light neutrino saga is officially over. Today, at the Neutrino 2012 conference in Kyoto, Japan, the OPERA collaboration announced that according to their latest measurements, neutrinos travel at almost exactly the speed of light.

"Although this result isn't as exciting as some would have liked, it is what we all expected deep down," said CERN research director Sergio Bertolucci in a statement.

With the dust settling, OPERA is getting back to its real job: finding tau neutrinos. This week the team also announced that they have found the second-ever instance of a muon neutrino morphing into a tau neutrino, strengthening the case that neutrinos have mass.

Close to light speed

OPERA shocked the world in September 2011 when it announced that neutrinos zipping from CERN in Switzerland to detectors beneath the Gran Sasso mountains in Italy were outpacing the speed of light, a feat that violated Einstein's rules of relativity and opened the door to exotic physics. But over the next few months, two errors – a leaky fibre-optic cable and a malfunctioning clock – emerged, which slowed the neutrinos back down, dashing post-Einsteinian dreams and causing chaos within the OPERA collaboration.

The measurement wasn't a waste of time, says OPERA team member Dario Autiero. The new, preliminary result shows that neutrinos arrived at OPERA 1.6 nanoseconds slower than light would have, with an error of 6.2 nanoseconds. That error should shrink with further analysis, says Giovanni De Lellis of the Italian National Nuclear Physics Institute (INFN) and co-spokesman for OPERA.

"This is the first time that velocity was measured with that level of accuracy," Autiero says.

But all of that was a sidebar to the experiment's real goal: catching shape-shifting neutrinos in the act. Neutrinos come in three flavours: electron, muon and tau. Several experiments had seen evidence for neutrinos spontaneously switching, or oscillating, from one type to another. Those oscillations proved, to many physicists' surprise, that the supposed massless particles must have some infinitesimal mass, and offered a route to explaining why there is more matter than anti-matter in the universe.

Oscillate wildly

Before OPERA, all the evidence for neutrino oscillations came from disappearances: detectors would end up with less of a certain type of neutrino than they started with, suggesting some had morphed into other flavours. Then in 2010, OPERA found the first tau neutrino in a beam of billions of muon neutrinos streaming to the Gran Sasso detectors from CERN. The discovery was a big deal at the time, but the team said they needed more tau neutrinos to make it statistically significant.

Now, a second tau neutrino has shown up in the detectors, they report.

"This result shows that the collaboration is definitely and effectively back to its original goal of discovering neutrino oscillations in appearance mode," De Lellis says.

OPERA will need at least six tau neutrinos to definitively claim they're seeing the oscillation effect, so they're not there yet. And when they do, they may find they've been scooped: in another experiment, the team behind the T2K detector in Japan announced this week that they have seen 10 muon neutrinos shifting into electron neutrinos.

From here (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21899-neutrinos-dont-outpace-light-but-they-do-shapeshift.html#.VC0gon40lNs).

...

I am not exactly a physicist, so I usually just skim through the articles, but I have a basic 'knowledge' and the practice to turn complex matter into simple concepts, that is why I skipped some articles, or parts of them. But yes, facts and data have been collected for some time now. It only is a matter of gaining the correct perspective and point of view.

I personally see neutrinos as the expression of the mind into matter, i.e. for me they seem to be a part of the invisible light spectrum which affects the polarity of a layer of 'matter' ( a layer or layers of the 'astral', if I can be brave enough here ).

Why I think like that? Because I am a bit weird. But seriously, see post #120 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69656-The-Unenlightened-Thread-Demystifying-the-Apple&p=881444&viewfull=1#post881444)and #121 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69656-The-Unenlightened-Thread-Demystifying-the-Apple&p=881539&viewfull=1#post881539).

:)

Skyhaven

2nd October 2014, 17:56

So, it turns out that according to some current scientific data:

- the universe is not what it has been thought to be, starting from the 'big bang' which probably wasn't a big bang at all, as it is understood right now, see this post;

- the existence of the 'black holes' is under question:
Mysterious quasar sequence explained, posted on a previous page;

- the protons are not what they have been thought to be, in size as well as in appearance, as shown in this current post above;

- probably not just the protons will keep appearing differently, but electrons, and the whole 'atom' as well;
Ultracold atoms juggle spins with exceptional symmetry

- that there are particles who travel apparently faster than the speed of light, something even I know to be lying outside the scientific 'thinking box';

- light can be manipulated with magnetic fields;
article here: http://phys.org/news/2014-09-defying...field.html#jCp

- Fluid mechanics suggests alternative to quantum orthodoxy:

http://phys.org/news/2014-09-fluid-m...odoxy.html#jCp

Is the universe a stable quantum system?
http://phys.org/news/2014-09-univers...um.html#ajTabs

etc.

So I guess, we do need to rethink what we have been thought to believe, and the way we observe the world.

May be, perhaps, there is indeed no box, but only the idea of it and the idea that we definitely need to fit in it...

Just some thoughts of mine.

I've been picking up about the same contradictory topics... theoretical physics has a lot of bubbles in it, especially if the physicists don't add the 'spooky' nature of quantum mechanics into their equations.

The latest thing that surprised me was that scientists in the quantum mechanics field have now managed to create 'solid' light:

http://www.iflscience.com/physics/crystallized-light-reveals-potential

chocolate

2nd October 2014, 19:37

http://www.blastr.com/sites/blastr/files/styles/blog_post_media/public/foto_star-wars-episode-angriff-55200.jpg?itok=4UmQcOLH
:P

( or as in qi gong sword finger. I think Star Wars mistakenly understood the light saber to be an actual weapon, while in fact it was the life force being guided by the masters of the 'force' )

chocolate

4th October 2014, 19:23

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Breaking the 'science' of empirical knowledge with universal knowledge (some call it gnosis ):

The science of all:
Alchemy - The Great Work
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This post is part of a post on the previous page, #134 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69656-The-Unenlightened-Thread-Demystifying-the-Apple&p=882204&viewfull=1#post882204) .

Alchemy

from http://www.fbrt.org.uk/pages/fbrt-hermetic/fbrt-alchemy.html

The word Alchemy, the name of the Hermetic work, is derived from the words Al and chemia. Al is an ancient word meaning ‘God’ in the sense of the ‘All’, the ‘Absolute’. As part of the word Alchemy it means ‘divine’ or ‘universal’. The word was used in many ancient languages and cultures, including the Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Hebrew and Celtic. Later, the Hebrew form of the word came to be written as El, which in the Christian Bible is translated as ‘God’. In Islam the word appears as Allah.
Chemia is from the Greek word khemia, which itself is derived from the Ancient Egyptian word kemit, meaning ‘black earth’. This referred to the dark fertile silt deposited in the Nile valley after each annual inundation of the river, which made possible the whole cultivation and civilisation of that otherwise desert area of north Africa. The word also referred to the prima materia or ‘first matter’ – the dark, formless ether (chaos), in which and out of which all form (cosmos) is born by means of the Word of God. Our word chemistry is derived from chemia.
Alchemy thus means ‘the universal or divine chemistry’, or ‘the chemistry of the universe’, or ‘the chemistry of God’. It refers to the fundamental process of life and all its sub-processes.
Solomon, in his second proverb, says: ‘Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a finer vessel.’[1] This is an extremely succinct summary of what is known as the alchemical process, whereby by purifying ourselves (i.e. our psyche, symbolised by silver and the moon) we may acquire the capacity to see, understand and know the wisdom (symbolised by gold and the sun), and hence be illumined by it. There are laws governing this process that are, naturally, useful to know.
Francis Bacon was called ‘Apollo’ by his peers and ‘Solomon’ by King James, whom Bacon served. Whilst always having Christ as his ultimate exemplar, Bacon patterned himself on Solomon, in the sense of what Solomon ideally did, or is reputed to have done, which was to ask God for wisdom and with that wisdom to write ‘excellent parables or aphorisms concerning divine and moral philosophy’ (e.g. Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Wisdom), allegorical and mystical poetry (e.g. The Song of Songs), a Natural History, and Mysteries (i.e. sacred drama) for the purposes of initiation (e.g. Freemasonic ritual drama) and temple worship in the temple that he designed and caused to be built (Solomon's Temple). Solomon was a philosopher, writer, poet and alchemist, endowed with great wisdom. He was also a cabalist, initiated into the profoundest secrets of the Cabala (Kabbalah) as handed down from Moses, and before Moses from Thoth/Hermes, and before Hermes from Enoch, king of Atlantis.

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As is the human body, so is the cosmic body
As is the human mind, so is the cosmic mind.
As is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm.
As is the atom, so is the universe.
~ The Upanishads

chocolate

4th October 2014, 19:29

And immediately after this video some may enjoy the following:

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chocolate

5th October 2014, 11:30

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http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSxzvoB9cVP8TktxtvAs91OYRgbrAHeMY9zChZPO_ODXr_E8SY9Nw
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutheranism

http://www.pilgrimlutheran-westbend.org/home/180014810/180014810/images/lrose_stainedglass300.jpg
http://images.marketplaceadvisor.channeladvisor.com/hi/49/49296/luther-rose-seal-silver-patch-wbg.jpg

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Hermetic Alchemical Rose Cross
http://www.embarktomysticism.org/images/rccross.jpg
http://symboldictionary.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/galleryrosecross2.jpg

http://www.brotherhoodoftherosycross.org/resources/rose.GIF
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Rose_Cross_Lamen.svg/2000px-Rose_Cross_Lamen.svg.png

clue: the videos above.

dan33

9th October 2014, 23:14

Hi Chocolate.
Thanks for the thread. :wave:

http://www.terrapapers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/inception_totem-3.jpg

http://www.geekosystem.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Ariadne-The-Architect.jpg

chocolate

10th October 2014, 05:57

Santos Bonacci Presents Syncretism The Science of Light Introduction

For All is a product of Light
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chocolate

17th October 2014, 06:57

Transmutation of Energy at its 'Zero Point'
also called
Free Energy

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dan33

17th October 2014, 17:43

:p
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=27622&d=1413567707

chocolate

30th October 2014, 11:15

There come those days when everything just falls exactly into place.
... Have been waiting for it for 38 earth years this time.
... Have been trying to tell whoever wanted to listen, but so far only those who already knew understood me.

qmL4CeTENtw

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And now,

That is the end (of this thread).

~ . ~

Skyhaven

30th October 2014, 13:55

Thanks for sharing, chocolate.

Cristian

12th December 2014, 16:31

http://cdn.freshome.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/calm.png

Cristian

12th December 2014, 16:50

http://www.wallpaperup.com/uploads/wallpapers/2013/12/10/189720/cde15506070e7e3aec81663451dbeba0.jpg

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Rocky_Shorz

13th December 2014, 23:46

Great thread I haven't run across before, bumping it to read again later...

dan33

14th December 2014, 18:00

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Rocky_Shorz

15th December 2014, 00:29

Blend this with what follows...

I feel like I can put everyone in one of the following categories.

Psychic Vampire:

Drains the positive emotional energy of others. They use any methods to fill in the void they have deep within themselves. Best way to stop a psychic is to set emotional boundaries. Psychic Vampires require direction in life to learn how to become independent and not codependent as they are so used to. Like an addict they can drain others rapidly and always have 1 main characteristic of being needy emotionally and requiring some form of reassurance. Psychic Vampires always attract each other as they love to be social. There is always a head Psychic Vampire that leads the others that they respect. Psychic Vampires should avoid psychic poisoners at all cost for they will lead the psychic vampires to feel more drained and desperate.

Psychic Donor's like to provide reassurance for others by constantly giving and providing positive emotions. They must watch out for they can easily be drained dramatically of all their joy and feel almost dead. Psychic Donor's need to recognize that they have to also watch out and push themselves beyond their capabilities. Psychic Donor's naturally are optimistic about encouraging and helping others. Psychic Donor's should watch out for psychic poisoners as they will completely drain all of their energy and turn them into a Psychic Vampire to a certain extent yet they know its not right inside.

Psychic Healers very rare to find they know the correct amount of positive emotional energy to provide to others. They have a safety switch inside that lets them know when they are being depleted. As a save yourself before its too late. Psychic Healers transfer their positive energy in exchange for the others negative ones then begin healing the negative one and turning it back into a positive energy. Psychic Healers can help Psychic Vampires and Psychic Donor's to decrease their need since they can pin point the source of the taint and reverse it. Psychic Healers really despise Psychic Poisoners since they can instantly spot them and know what they are doing is bring death to all instead of life for everyone including themselves.

Psychic Poisoners are the worst of the worst they can never give only take. Psychic Poisoners are almost completely deprived of all positive emotions except the one that is keeping them alive. They have a very negative outlook for others saying if I cant have it then no one can. Psychic Poisoners are very 2 faced one to get your guard down the other to keep you in a mirage while they are secretly stealing your positive emotions in-exchange for their negative ones. By the time one realizes or escapes the damage has already been done. Psychic Poisoners love Psychic Vampires to manipulate and use them as minions while feeding them poison to keep them under control. Psychic Poisoners are highly attracted to Psychic Donor's since they give selflessly always. Psychic Poisoners can't stand Psychic Healers since they force themselves to really question about how long do you really wish to feel really dead inside knowing that if others find out you'll really be alone to face yourself.

Your thoughts ?

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PHYSICS AND CONSCIOUSNESS
http://www.starstuffs.com/physcon/shamanism.html

Shamanism is basically the practice of contacting the "spirit world" and doing work on the dimensional and/or on a soul level. This could encompass many methods and modes of doing such. Shamans/Healers have been the corner stone of many spiritual traditions throughout the world. The roots of these ancient Healers and Priests regarded the soul and consciousness as a part of the whole cosmos. The shamanistic concept of "journeying" could be explained by as traveling through space and time dimensions to heal the soul and the person or many various other reasons depending on the culture of that healer. For many healer/shamans multidimensional traveling is a way of life. There is no distinct separation.

Science has also come to explain how "magic" of the shamans operates to some degree. A scandalous trial in London in 1877, grabbed the attention of many notable physicists. Henry Slade, a psychic from the United States, was charged with fraudulent activity. What marked this normally mundane trial of trickery is that physicists and astronomers around the world, some who won the Nobel Prize in physics, came to Slade's defense. These scientists claimed "miraculous feats" could be done by manipulating objects in the 4th dimension.

This is something shamans have been to known to do, either alter something in the physical or manifest something from "thin air". Physicists are coming close to explaining the science of the shaman.

Eventually, Henry Slade was convicted despite the help he received.

There is a well-known tenet in shamanism called the "axis mundi", the transcendental center of the worlds, designates "parallel world realities within a single universe", coexisting on each side of the "axis mundi" the axis by which our world is brought into communication with the upper and lower worlds.

In "The Nature of Shamanism" it states, "Uniformities of forms do appear to exist in our empirical universe which transgress the quanta of the human mind... falling into the domain of the Jungian 'collective unconsciousness'".

"By invoking modern physics, we can say, together with many a shaman, that all reality is only a continuum of the same spectrum. Put otherwise, reality is always in a state of Being or Existing."

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The generally accepted theory of light up until the mid-1800's, was Newton's assertion of light to be a stream of tiny particles. However, in the late 1800's, the particle picture was replaced by the wave theory of light due to the phenomena associated with light: refraction, diffraction and interference, which could only be explained using the wave picture.

This electromagnetic radiation, or light, may be viewed in one of two complementary ways: as a wave in an abstract electromagnetic field or as a stream of massless particles called photons. This is known as the wave - particle duality and is true for all particles. This duality is the basis of a indisputable quantum law in which it is a thread that runs throughout the micro and macrocosm.

Light as a wave, has a wavelength associated with it, much like an ocean wave with crests and troughs. The frequency of light is measured by counting the number of waves passing one point at a given time. The energy is merely the strength or force the wave carries.

Since all things have an energetic duality we can convert and apply this to the DNA and RNA molecules which they in fact emit their own light/energy. Science shows this and mystics spanning many beliefs and philosophies throughout history speak of this wisdom in terms of The Language of Light.

Enoch the patriarch of the Bible speaks of this language of light as waveform geometries of harmonic resonance that mimic the properties of light. The Enochian knowledge describes sonic equations, encoded within the ancient mantras and god names, capable of directly affecting the nervous system and producing profound effects of healing and higher consciousness states.

The Divine Light and Kingdom of Light references can be found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Nag Hammadi, Pistis Sophia and among the various other Egyptian, Persian and Syrian writings. The returning to the light from which we came, this merging of the light within ourselves with the Divine, is what the great Eastern Orthodox mystics called, Theosis, others call it Christ Consciousness, Nirvana, Bliss, Oneness, and Enlightenment.

The renowned yogi, Yogananda describes the universe beyond matter as being composed of indescribably subtle Light and that the material universe is composed of all the same essence. In describing a state of ecstatic joy he says, "A swelling glory within me began to envelop towns, continents, the earth, solar and stellar systems, tenuous nebulae, and floating universes...The entire cosmos...glittered within the infinitude of my being." According to yoga principles this is called Oneness with Supreme Consciousness, Ultimate Being, or God. In modern physics, this could be described as Non-Locality in the atomic sea.

The yogic science, practiced within the laboratory of human consciousness, is, in fact, the science of consciousness, which physicists such as Bohm theorize as being inseparable from, and responsible for, all reality.

Kabir Das, one of the medieval Indian saints whose compositions figure in Sikh Scripture said: "The Light of one soul is equal to that of sixteen suns." Many of his writings speak of the brilliance of Light and touches on the simplistic fundamental roots of Oneness.

The more we raise our vibrational levels, the more of this language we 'speak'. This language also carries over into stones/minerals/herbs for they have their own inherent vibrational rate. The same applies to the sacred symbols and sounds found throughout the world. Since everything in the universe emits energy we are harmonizing ourselves into resonating with the universe around us.

In some circles, multidimensional beings are called Light Beings. Also, sometimes people call themselves Light Workers, for their work with and operation out of / from the Light which is synonymous with "All That Is In The Universe". As we progress spiritually we become vibrationally altered or become "light bodied". Thus we have the aptly named physical ascension. "Light Knowledge" is also deemed the knowledge of God that seems to be a universal truth throughout the belief systems of the world. In several ancient writings Light is synonymous and equal to the dimensions and levels of Love. The differences in electromagnetic light can also be paralleled to the differences and levels of Love. Ultimately, Light is Love and all operates as One.

It is beautifully ironic that the duality of light properties seems to unlock a vast door to scientific universal principles in which the mystics and shamans have always understood.

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Carl Jung made significant progress in his theories of the soul and shamanism, on many levels. This psychologist's work on the deep aspects of the soul dawned a new age for scientific and religious thinkers. Carl Jung's depth in understanding the self and realms therein parallels the knowledge and characteristics of shamanism.

With this understanding, Carl Jung felt that no causal connection can be demonstrated between two events, but a meaningful relationship nevertheless exists between them. This direct encounter with the patterning of events in nature as a whole reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world. Jung called this principle of meaningful coincidences: "synchronicity".

Jung describes in his research into the collective unconscious that coincidences were connected in meaningful ways. Their occurrence seemed to defy the calculations of probability. Because Jung believed the phenomenon of synchronicity was connected to psychic conditions, he felt the inner and outer realities (subjective and objective) evolved through the archetypes. Jung formulated that these archetypal images belonged to a part of the unconscious not derived from personal experience. The archetypal images form the "collective unconscious". This collective is all things working in tandem indicating 'singleness of purpose', in this case, our very totality of consciousness vibrating and working as one coherent mass of energy.

We can also see archetypal images or symbols as energetic structures that create a bridge between us and the higher realities. In some unintelligible way, they connect us with the spiritual realms and the divine order that unites us all. Archetypes thus become a doorway that provides access to the experience of meaningful coincidence.

Jung's concept of synchronicity speaks of the "oneness" and interdependence of the universe. Jung states, "Peculiar interdependence of objective elements among themselves as well as with the subjective (psychic) states of the observer or observers". Jung was also heavily influenced by the "new" physics dawning which he wrote, "Physics has demonstrated...that in the realm of atomic magnitudes objective reality presupposes an observer, and that only on this condition is a satisfactory scheme of explanation possible...This means that a subjective element attaches to the physicist's world picture, and secondly that a connection necessarily exists between the psyche to be explained and the objective space-time continuum."

These discoveries confirmed what Jung recognized intuitively: that matter and consciousness are, in fact, interconnected in an essential way. Quantum theory and synchronous events along with matter and consciousness function as complementary aspects of a unified total reality.

In an essay by Gerhard Adler titled "Reflections on "Chance" and "Fate" - "This interconnectedness manifests itself in so many ways that one has to accept it as undisputable reality."

Arthur Koestler, a twentieth century philosopher, refers to the capacity of the human psyche to "act as a cosmic resonator" and in his book, "The Roots of Coincidence", presumes the "fundamental unity of all things," which transcends mechanical causality, and which relates coincidence to the "universal scheme of things."

Koestler also refers to "the universal hanging-together of things, their embeddedness in a universal matrix." Many ecologists and scientists know without a doubt, this sense of interrelation in and of the world.

The mystical concept of one universal scheme parallels the scientific theme of oneness. The relevancy of science and consciousness is immense.

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the other 99% are sleeping...

this reality spreads outside of their perceptions...

everyone is psychic and have no idea who is whispering in their minds...