Pre-emptive good-bye and thanks so much

[araucaria]

Posted by Calz (here)
So ... what shall we do?

What can be done?

You see things from a ... different angle ... all ends up in the same space.

There are a lot of members here.

Many suggest our reality is formed from several levels and that is what comes our way.

I don't know ... but I don't have any doubt regardless.

Maybe working on say two levels means it is better to have two problems than one. Take a sumo wrestling match. The brawnier guy has just one problem: attack. The brainier one has two problems: immediate defence, and somewhere down the line, attack. This involves turning defence into attack, which is done as follows. Strong defence for a while, then he allows it to crumble a little too much, so that his opponent, smelling easy victory, literally gets carried away. So if brain is to win, it is not brawn vs brain but brawn vs brain plus brawn (his opponent’s). Note: this is oversimplified in more ways than one to make my point. But you have two levels: the one you see (‘brawn’), and the one you don’t see (‘brain’). And when you see the little fella disposing of the giant, you need a brain of your own to understand what has been deceiving your eyes. What did he do? Hardly anything at all.

The end of Lord of the Rings is a poetic version of this, a no-brainer version where the good Hobbit is totally powerless to act, with only his and others’ seemingly passive collective will to succeed in place of intelligent action. His first problem is his inability to kill off the evil Gollum; his second his inability to cast off the ring. The poetic no-brainer solution is of course to have the evil Gollum snatch the ring from him and in the moment of victory slip over the edge of the chasm with it. Two problems neatly solved. Or, to paraphrase David Icke: problem, problem, solution.

How might such a scenario play out in real life? Well, the fall of the Berlin Wall comes to mind. The Berlin Wall materialized the wrestling match between east and west, and at that level, it marked a victory for the west. However, if you place yourself at the higher level at which the powers that be are facing off with the spiritual forces such as are present here on Avalon, then it may be seen as one moment in an ongoing scenario when brawn was made to stumble. If you are backing both sides for the purpose of fomenting conflict, then this was a huge setback, and no amount of spin to the effect that this was simply building up to something even bigger can hide that fact. Peacemaking outcomes ranged from the reuniting of German families to détente after years of living on the brink of nuclear war. It does not matter that nuclear war was never really going to happen so long as that fear loomed large in the collective psyche. And likewise, the fact that everyone thought and stated that this was a major breakthrough for peace contributed to making it exactly that – no deception could override that groundswell of reduced fear.
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post819971

So the fall of the Berlin Wall was a hugely positive event, as advertised, as hugely positive as it was unexpected. And how did it happen? What heroes stepped up to the plate? Well, actually none, especially not those usual suspects we call world leaders. It just kind of happened all by itself while nobody was looking. For all the reinforced concrete, with barbed wire, searchlights and armed guards on one side and painted rabbits and freedom slogans on the other, this was a highly perishable piece of infrastructure. And all this happened over a quarter of a century ago, before the Internet and the global awakening: think what positive earthshaking event we are capable of now, and simply let it be.

Here is a musical example. This 25-minute piece is called The Mystery of Time, and in it time’s mystery is being constantly in the here and now, with nothing much happening, until seemingly all of a sudden a watershed event occurs, a climax is reached; in this recording it occurs at precisely 19’33”.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UgeYpx-azF0

If this sounds vaguely sexual, then that is correct. The fact that life is basically orgasmic in nature is the reason why everything these days is about sex, in the messed-up f- word sense. https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post977455
Orgasm is about giving up control in communion with someone who also gives up control. Messed-up means refusing to give up control – which is how sex becomes violence. The tale of Scheherazade in the Arabian Nights is exemplary because she volunteers to get into bed with a serial rapist and killer and turn this highly unpromising relationship into a lasting happy marriage. This is the story of humanity both individually and collectively and it tells how we get from somewhere really nasty to somewhere really cool. This is the source of our abiding optimism that seems so crazy.
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post285610

[Calz]

Posted by araucaria (here)

Posted by Calz (here)
So ... what shall we do?

What can be done?

Maybe working on say two levels means it is better to have two problems than one.

I love you ... I love you all.

What a remarkable place this is.

Seems like a search engine ... put out a query and what comes back is dramatically better than what is already on the net.

It comes from the heart.

My gratitude goes so deep.

[Calz]

Ooops wrong thread ... sorry ...

[RunningDeer]

Posted by Calz (here)
Ooops wrong thread ... sorry ...

This is in reference to only your smilie. ♡

Snap out of it. - “Moonstruck”

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0x-fkSYDtUY

[heyokah]

To all of us dancers.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=DZFRPwrYeNA

Keep a fire burning in your eye
Pay attention to the open sky
You never know what will be coming down
I don't remember losing track of you
You were always dancing in and out of view
I must have thought you'd always be around
Always keeping things real by playing the clown
Now you're nowhere to be found

I don't know what happens when people die
Can't seem to grasp it as hard as I try
It's like a song I can hear playing right in my ear
That I can't sing
I can't help listening
And I can't help feeling stupid standing 'round
Crying as they ease you down
'cause I know that you'd rather we were dancing
Dancing our sorrow away
No matter what fate chooses to play

Just do the steps that you've been shown
By everyone you've ever known
Until the dance becomes your very own
No matter how close to yours
Another's steps have grown
In the end there is one dance you'll do alone

Keep a fire for the human race
Let your prayers go drifting into space
You never know what will be coming down
Perhaps a better world is drawing near
And just as easily it could all disappear
Along with whatever meaning you might have found
Don't let the uncertainty turn you around
Go on and make a joyful sound

Into a dancer you have grown
From a seed somebody else has thrown
Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own
And somewhere between the time you arrive
And the time you go
May lie a reason you were alive
But you'll never know

[onawah]

I miss those days too!
The Pub certainly helped to keep 'dem cosmic blues at bay, for a time, anyway....

Posted by Calz (here)
Hey Z!

Thanks for that.

Seeing your name here brought back to mind ... *that* ... thread.

................................................................

You know the one ...


https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...light=universe


What a ride that one was eh?



Perhaps not the best thread ... but certainly the most fun.

Not high on the "signal to noise" chart. Poor Paul didn't know what to make of us crazies ....



I miss those days.

[Bluegreen]

Opps ... wrong thread ... sorry

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4qKSlvVBZgw