Consciousness

By FEMOESA

Title: Tiny Bubbles

Size: 6" x 9"

Medium: Ink on Paper

Artist: Thaneeya McArdle

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The theme of this highly charged drawing is the mythic concept of existence and consciousness. An array of variously-sized bubbles floats across a black starry cosmos. Inside the bubbles are elaborately-detailed psychedelic eyes, each one bursting with a special uniqueness. The composition of this piece represents the interconnectedness of life amidst our apparent individualities. This drawing is incredibly detailed; you can see close-ups in my photostream. My abstract artwork is very process-oriented and carries a spiritual meaning related to the mystery of existence and a reverence for the unfolding process of life. The designs in this drawing arose spontaneously in a stream-of-consciousness manner. While working on drawings that are this detailed, I become so immersed in the work that drawing the images becomes a meditative process through which I strive to achieve balance amidst chaos (similar to the concept of mushin). The colors and designs arise spontaneously and reflect my interest in tribal and aboriginal art, specifically in the act of storytelling through nonrepresentational means. My abstract art is also heavily inspired by my world travels, particularly my visits to remote tribal villages in the Kutch region of India, as well as my visits to temples and roadside shrines in Sri Lanka, India, and Nepal.

You can see a few close-ups, including a side view shot, in my photostream.

The term hijab or ḥijāb refers to the types of head covering traditionally worn by Muslim women, but can also refer to modest Muslim styles of dress in general. The Arabic word literally means curtain or cover (noun), based on the root حجب meaning "to cover, to veil, to shelter".

Most Islamic legal systems define this type of modest dressing as covering everything except the face and hands in public. According to Islamic scholarship, hijab is given the wider meaning of modesty, privacy, and morality; the word for a headscarf or veil used in the Koran is khimār and not hijab. Still another definition is metaphysical, where al-hijab "refers to the veil which separates man or the world from God.

Since the 1970s, hijab has emerged as a symbol of Islamic consciousness. Muslims differ as to how "hijab dress" should be enforced, particularly over the role of religious police that are enforcing hijab in Iran and Saudi Arabia.

“The detectors don’t induce the phenomenon of wave function collapse; conscious observation does. Consciousness is like this giant roving spotlight, collapsing reality wherever it shines—and what isn’t observed remains probability. And it’s not just photons or electrons. It is everything. All matter…A testable, repeatable fault in reality.”

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STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

You cannot stand in the same stream twice said Heraclitus

Panta rhei, panta rhei, panta rhei

everything flows, all entities move, nothing remains still

Nor can any shadow be cast on the same stream twice

Yet the shadow persists while there is light behind the body

Say I

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Ruin felt compelled to combine two memories, his first memory, and a later New York ‘Sex Club’ memory. They were that type of inseparable twins, echoes of each other, strange distorting mirrors spanning, perhaps, 40 years. They also spanned that unravelling of consciousness, that recognition of patterns, that beginning of showing the person to him or herself. In truth he didn’t think it was unusual that these incidents might present themselves conjoined in the atmosphere of a double pandemic, that eclipsing which some of us are enjoying currently. To not give it a description would be to suppress it, and he had found out, first-hand, that this is neither good for the individual nor even for that whole body which constitutes the collective ‘us’.

Both would be considered somewhat strange in their own way, he guessed. The first was when he was six years old. That age is negotiable, he was between five and seven anyway. It was in the house he was born in, before the family moved to Clondalkin, and the long shadow of the ‘Round Tower’. He thought his family had negotiated that move when he was seven, but this could have been mis-remembered. He never imagined he would be writing about this first memory, nor did he ever imagine he would be writing about his ‘Sex Club’ misadventure either. He had never told these stories before to anybody, so the putting of them into words represented a certain challenge, paired with the possibility of a breakthrough, even. It was not that there was shame involved, that wasn’t the problem; he seemed to have spent most of his lifetime shining a light into ‘shameful’ shadows, those places where only the boundaryless dare to venture, to the discomfort of all those who find themselves temporarily trapped in his, her, or their orbit. The joy of this double pandemic, for him, was that he had at last the perfect excuse to remove himself from ‘decent society’, and he cherished this opportunity. Here hung that glorious double-edge of that particular ‘Sword of Damocles’.

But he also wanted to connect the boy to the ‘Rack and Ruin’ of the story. He wanted to interweave the unravelled threads of that Gordian knot. He thought of the act of writing as something akin to that. He knew it wasn’t an original idea, but he liked that myth of Penelope weaving for three years, constructing a shroud of picked-apart memories. He would give himself 4 years to sort it out, which of course, in today’s double-pandemic climate, might seem like a crazy type of optimism. He was happy to accept the mantle of the fatalistic optimist, come to think of it, he would gladly accept any mantle at all that was on offer. He had become aware that this interweaving was essential to the story he wanted to tell, it had to cross timelines. He thought that this might be the only way he could possibly tell this tale.

Ruin had a vague memory that he had been playing, there were other children around. He didn’t really remember names, perhaps Pat Barnes was one, the Nolans lived a few doors away, so there might have been some Nolans there, the Flynns from over opposite might have been there too, anyway, there were a group of young striplings, probably of a similar age to himself. He remembered a commotion of some sort going on around the doorway of his house, with its postage-stamp front garden. It was a row house, not like the Barnes’s semi-detached at the end, with its wider path. His mother was at the door, with another woman, he had no idea who she was. She might have been a neighbour, she might have been a community nurse. His mother called out, telling him to come in. For some reason the group of children around him followed him into the garden.

Apparently, he was to go into hospital, with his sister, they were to have their tonsils removed, a rite of passage that had become somewhat endemic in that dirty little city at the time. He might have known that this was about to happen, he didn’t remember. The incident that was to snap this juncture into this permanent fixture in his consciousness had not occurred yet. It was a first memory that would always recur in times of distress, uninvited it would flaunt itself.

He was a very shy, awkward, skinny, and freckled, ginger stutterer. He suspected that the earlier umbilical strangling in the birthing struggle might have caused some trauma, a type of bottleneck where words became stuck. He knew them all, well at least as many as a six-year-old might command, but he just couldn’t get them to come out. Fluent stories were fashioned in his tousled ginger noggin, jokes and childish witticisms, nursery rhymes, but they just couldn’t traverse that roadblock. There was some jeering from other children, now and then, but mostly he didn’t feel put upon then. In later life this surprised him, considering what is bandied about relative to the inherent cruelty of children. For the most part, in his life, he had not found this to be true.

There was a small carrier bag, just inside the doorway in the hall. His mother called him in, and there she unceremoniously stripped him naked in the open doorway in front of all his young friends, and this other unidentifiable woman. Apparently that bag contained a fresh change of clothes. That was it, that simple act of forced exhibitionism. He instantly wanted to die, though he didn’t then know what that meant. He simply wanted to disappear. There was no malice there, no ill intention, no decision to mortify that child, that stammering wreck, but it remained his earliest memory, and even now it upsets him terribly. Forty years later he told her, his ailing mother, what she had done, but she had, of course, no memory of it at all.

Fast forward 35 years and the reluctant exhibitionist is naked again, surrounded by other naked men ‘delectably flagranting’. Don’t worry, I am not going to give you a blow-by-blow account, if you’ll excuse my nudge-nudge, wink-wink description. There’s enough of that, universally available, on the Worldwide Web, and I wouldn’t be surprised if you were to run into photographs of Ruin himself in compromising positions if you were to perform a thorough search. With time he appeared to have somehow absorbed that stuttering child in the doorway, and, with the mammy’s help, somehow managed to usher himself towards something resembling shamelessness. Boundaries had tumbled, and she had no idea what she had initially encouraged. But you cannot teach a child to have boundaries when your own, in turn, had been obliterated in childhood. This is now something he recognises in his core, that there was no malice there at all, just blind stupidity. He has also discovered that we are all very capable of that.

But then there was that second shock, that second memory he needed to conjoin with the first; that story with his fellow shameless ‘flagranters’. It was hard for him to describe that freedom which comes attached to an addiction, that being naked with one’s own kind, indulging. There is that looking into all sorts of voids together, that removing of any aberrant boundaries, some of which might have survived that first memory’s sundering.

There was a banging, a shuddering, a clanging, it was, more or less, the last thing he remembered. He had assumed the position, on all fours, ass higher than head, which was looking into a dark corner, that aforementioned void. All the corners, in fact the whole room, was dark. The walls were painted black, the radiator was painted black, there were next to no lights, other than one of those luminous blue lights that make naked freckled people look particularly ridiculous, exposing the sun damage. His nostrils were burning somewhat from the Amyl Nitrate, but that was the least of the sensations he was experiencing, assuming his beloved ‘how much is that doggy in the window’ position.

But back to that rhythmic clanging, what the feck was it? It was a thud/clang, rather than a continuous clanging. I don’t know how long it took Ruin to work out what it was. Then it dawned. Ruin’s head was lodged between a black brick wall and a hot metal radiator pipe, and he was having a type of fit. He knew it was happening and he knew he couldn’t stop it. He realised that the rhythm was vicious, lacerating and vicious, but there was no way to control it. So, there he was stuck, vibrating and stuck, thudding and clanging, moving his head back and forth from mortar to iron like a human jackhammer.

He woke up, naked on a more than slightly crusty red sofa, surrounded by a gaggle of semi-tumescent men, the centre of attention at last, with the porn playing on the TV behind him. It was certainly not one of his most attractive looks. His head was bleeding and bruised on both sides of his forehead. The naked hosts, two kind older gentlemen asked if he needed an ambulance, whilst making some attempt to clean up his forehead, with paper from one of the kitchen rolls, left available for the punters. Ruin declined, he had no insurance, and he knew it was an illegal club and that it would mean trouble for these two worried, sexually generous, entrepreneurs.

Ruin asked could he sit a while to recover, and then he would leave. They were relieved somewhat by this suggestion. So, Ruin, sat under that porn screen, on that sofa, for 30 minutes or so, surrounded by his fellow despoilers getting on with their furtive, or celebratory, despoiling. He had almost become invisible again, other than being someone that was hogging the sofa.

Ruin thought to himself “so, this is rock bottom”. He was wrong though, that would be considerably much further down, it would happen much later. There was still fun to be had. But he didn’t know it then.

The rest was getting home, initially home to 27th Street in Chelsea, he was stranded in the Lower East Side, somewhere between Avenue A and B, around the corner from Tompkins Square Park, and it was 4 in the morning.

On that walk he realised a lot. He knew he had to leave Manhattan, his beloved city. As he walked, he remembered. He remembered that other doorway in which he had been stripped, just as he had stripped in that hallway of this ‘Sex Club’, where he had voluntarily put all his clothes and belongings into a proffered bin bag, tucking his poppers into his socks. Then he remembered a woman standing there with his mother. He remembered who that woman was. It was Misses Nolan, the mother of a brood of 7, from two doors down.

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(DINA1 666) 1. Continue with the simple breathing exercise you are now doing. It is of value to youin producing inner alignment and the harmonising of your bodies.2. Then, by an act of the will, withdraw the consciousness into the head and there visualise the inner radiant sun, formed by the merging of the lesser life of the personalitywith the radiant light in your soul.At the very centre of this life see the Self,the inner Christ or Buddha.Then focus your thought, without effort or strength, in thiscentre.(DINA1 714) Stage I. Little Chelaship. This stage is so definitely exoteric that many people have left it far behind. The first indication that a man has reached that stage (from the angle of the Master) comes when the "light flashes out

" in some one life; thereby the attention of the Master is attracted to the person. It might be said that the preface to the Master's interest falls into four parts and it is only when all four are found present together and simultaneously that this happens:1.The aspirational intent of the man upon the physical plane suddenly succeeds in enabling him to make a soul [page 714] contact. The moment that that takes place the

light in the headis momentarily intensified. (DINA1 676)

Stage IV. Chela on the Thread. Into the dark the life proceeds. A different voice seems to sound forth. "Enter the cave and find your own; walk in the dark and on your head carry a lighted lamp." The cave is dark andlonely;cold is it and a place of many sounds and voices. The voices of the many sonsof God, left playing on the playground of the Lord, make their appeal for light. The cave is long andnarrow. The air is full of fog. The sound of running water meets the rushing sound of wind, andfrequent roll of thunder.Far off, dim and most vaguely seen, appears an oval opening, its colour blue

. Stretched athwart this space of blue, a rosy cross is seen

, and at the centre of the cross, where four[page 676] arms meet,a rose. Upon the upper limb, a vibrant diamond shines,within a star five-pointed.The living soul drives forward towards the cross which bars his way to life, revealed and known. Not yet the cross is mounted and, therefore, left behind. But onward goes the living soul, eyes fixed upon the cross, ears open to the wailing cries of all his brother souls.

Stage V. One within the aura Out into radiant life and light! The cave is left behind; the cross is overturned; the way stands clear.The word sounds clear within the head and not within the heart. "Enter again the playground of theLord and this time lead the games." The way upon the second tier of stairs stands barred, this by thesoul's own act. No longer red desire governs all the life, but now the clear blue flame burns strong. Upon the bottom step of the barred way he turns back and passes down the stairs on to the playground, meeting dead shells built in an earlier stage, stepping upon forms discarded and destroyed, and holding forth the hands of helpfulness. Upon his shoulder sits the bird of peace; upon his feet the sandals of the messenger. Not yet the utter glory of the radiant life! Not yet the entering into everlasting peace! But still the work, and still the lifting of the little ones.(EOH 48) 1. The seed of mind was implanted in some of the aspiring animal-men by the Hierarchy,and these animal men became human beings, of a very low order to be sure, but still men. They were"sparked," if I might so express it, and a

point of light appeared where before there was none.Before there was only a diffused atomic light but no central point of light withinthe head, and no indication of the higher centres. These individuals, along with the more advanced humanity which came to the planet in Atlantean times (having individualised elsewhere), constitute the most advanced humanity of our present period. They represent culture and understanding, no matter where it is found, or in what class or race.(EOH 170) The Hierarchy and humanity are at last en rapport. This is the higher reflection or correspondence to what goes on within the consciousness of a human being who—having reached the stage of discipleship—is at the point of blending the light of the personality(as it is expressed through the ajna centre and its externalisation, the pituitary body) and the light of the soul(as it is, in its turn, expressed [Page 170] by the light in the head, or by the head centre and its externalisation, the pineal gland).(EOH 273) We come now to the second stanza, with its direct references to human attitudes and recognitions. For decades, I, as one of the spiritual teachers, along with many others, have sought to awaken all to the fact of Light—light in the world, light coming from the plane of desire (called the astral plane quite often), light illumining science and human knowledge, the light of the soul,producing in due time the light in the head. You have been carefully taught that the right use of the mind in meditation and reflection will lead to the correct relation of soul and personality, and that when this has taken place, the light of the soul.The reference in this second stanza ignites or fosters the light in the head and the man reaches the stage of illumination is to the more extended idea of the relation of humanity (the kingdom of men) to the spiritual Hierarchy (the kingdom of God). When these two are more closely aligned and related, light will break out among the sons of men as a whole, just as light breaks out in the individual aspirant.(ITI 160) In the physical body there are certain most interesting reactions. These fall into two main groups: First, a stimulation to an intense activity, which has a definite effect upon the nervous system,and secondly, there is frequently the

appearance of a light within the head, which canbe seen even when the eyes are closed, or in the dark.

(ITI 169) When we arrive at the physical level of consciousness and of the reaction to the illumination which is streaming down into the brain, we have two predominant effects, usually. There is a sense or an awareness of a light in the head

, and frequently also a stimulation to an activity which is abnormal…A second effect, as we have seen, is the recognition [Page 170] of the light in the head. This fact is so well substantiated that it needs little reinforcing. Dr. Jung refers to it in the following manner:"...the light-vision, is an experience common to many mystics, and one that is undoubtedly of the greatest significance, because in all times and places it appears as the unconditional thing, which unites in itself the greatest power and the profoundest meaning. Hildegarde von Bingen, a significant personality quite apart from her mysticism, expresses herself about her central vision in a quite similar way. 'Since my childhood,' she says,

'I always see a light in my soul, but not with the outer eyes,

nor through the thoughts of my heart; neither do the five outer senses take part in this vision....The light I perceive is not of a local kind, but is much brighter than the cloud which bears the sun. I cannot distinguish in it height, breadth, or length....What I see or learn in such a vision stays long in my memory. I see, hear, and know at the same time, and learn what I know in the samemoment....I cannot recognize any sort of form in this light, although I sometimes see in it another light that is known to me as the living light....While I am enjoying the spectacle of this light, all sadness and sorrow disappear from my memory....'…This light in the head takes various forms, and is often sequential in its development. A diffused light is first seen, sometimes outside the head and, later, within the brain

,when in deep thought or meditation; then it becomes more focussed and looks, as some express it, like a radiant and very brilliant sun. Later, at the centre of the radiance, a

point of vivid electric blue appears (perhaps the "living light"

referred to above) and from this a golden pathway of light leads out. This has sometimes been called "the Path," and there isa possibility that the prophet was not speaking merely symbolically when he said that "the path of the just is as a shining light that shineth more and more until the day be with us."In this light in the head, which seems a universal accompaniment of the illuminative state, we have[Page 172] probably also the origin of the halo depicted around the heads of the illuminati of the world.Much investigation remains to be done along this line, and much reticence and prejudice has to be overcome. But many are beginning to record their experiences and they are not the psychopathics of the race, but reputable and substantial workers in the varying fields of human endeavor. The time may shortly be with us when the fact of illumination may be recognized as a natural process, and the ligh tin the head be regarded as indicating a certain definite stage of co-ordination and of interplay between the soul, the spiritual man, and the man on the physical plane. When this is the case, we shall have brought our human evolution to such a point that instinct, intellect and intuition can be used at will by the trained and fully educated man, and the "light of the soul" can be turned upon any problem. Thus the omniscience of the soul will be manifested on earth.(ITI 215) Sixth: The high grade intellectual personality, with its focus of attention in the region of the pituitary body, begins to vibrate in unison with the higher centre in the region of the pineal gland.Then a magnetic field is set up between the positive soul aspect and the waiting personality which is rendered receptive by the process of focussed attention. Then the light, we are told, breaks forth, and we have the illumined man, and the appearance of the phenomenal [Page 215] light in the head. All this is the result of a disciplined life, and the focussing of the consciousness in the head. This is, in its turn, brought about through the attempt to be concentrated in the daily life, and also through definite concentration exercises. These are followed by the effort to meditate, and later — much later — the power to contemplate makes itself felt (ITI 251) The hands should be folded in the lap, and the feet crossed. If the western scientist is right when he tells us that the human body is really an electric battery, then perhaps his Oriental brother is also right when he says that in meditation there is a bringing together of negative and positive energy,and that by this means we produce the light in the head.Therefore, it is wise to close the circuit.(ITI 255) In mental types, or in the case of those who have already some facility in "centering the consciousness" in the head, it is the brain cells which become [Page 256] over-stimulated, leading to headaches, to sleeplessness, to a sense of fulness, or to a disturbing vibration between the eyes or at the very top of the head. Sometimes there is a sense of blinding light, like a sudden flash of lightning or of electricity, registered when the eyes are closed, and in the dark equally as in the light.

When this is the case, the meditation period should be reduced from fifteen minutes to five, or meditation should be practiced on alternate days, until such time as the brain cells have adjusted themselves to the new rhythm and the increased stimulation.(GAWP 3) Intuition is light itself, and when it is functioning, the world is seen as light and the light bodies of all forms become gradually apparent

. This brings with it the ability to contact the light centre in all forms, and thus again an essential relationship is established and the sense of superiority and separateness recedes into the background.Intuition, therefore, brings with its appearance three qualities:Illumination. By illumination I do not mean the light in the head. That is incident a land phenomenal, and many truly intuitive people are entirely unaware of this light. The light to whichI refer is that which irradiates the Way.

It is "the light of the intellect," which really means

that which illumines the mind and which can reflect itself in that mental apparatus which is held "steady in the light." This is the "Light of the World," a Reality which is eternally existent, but which can be discovered only when the individual interior light is recognised as such. This is the "Light of the Ages," which shineth ever more until the Day be with us. The intuition is therefore the recognition in [Page 4] oneself, not theoretically but as a fact in one's experience, of one's complete identification with the Universal Mind, of one's constituting a part of the great WorldLife, and of one's participation in the eternal persisting Existence.(LOS 180) 1. Enlightenment. The light in the head, which is at first but a spark, is fanned to a flame which illumines all things and is fed constantly from above. This is progressive (see previous sutra), and is dependent upon steadfast practise, meditation and earnest service.(LOS 180) Illumination The gradually increasing downpour of fiery energy increases steadily the "light in the head," or the effulgence found in the brain

in the neighborhood of the pineal gland. This is to the

little system of the threefold man in physical manifestation what the physical sun is to the solar system. This light become seventually a blaze of glory and the man becomes a "son of light" or a "sun of righteousness." Such were the Buddha, the Christ, and all the great Ones who have attained.(LOS 210) The secondary meaning has of course direct reference to the work of the kundalini or serpent fire at the base of the spine as it responds to the soul vibration (felt in the head, in the region of the pineal gland, and called "the light in the head

"). Mounting upward, it burns out allobstructions in the spinal etheric channel and vitalizes or electrifies the five centres up the spine and the two in the head. The vital airs within the ventricles of the head are also swept into activity and produce a cleansing, or rather eliminating effect therein.(LOS 228) 52. Through this, that which obscures the light is gradually removed.The first result is the gradual wearing away, or attenuation of the material forms which hide [Page228] the reality. This does not mean the wasting away of the forms but the steady refining and transmutation of the matter with which they are constructed so that they become so purified and clarified that the "Light of God" which they have hitherto hidden, can shine forth in all its beauty inthe three worlds. This can be demonstrated as literally true upon the physical plane, for through the work of purification and the control of the life currents the light in the head becomes soapparent that it can be seen by those who have supernatural vision, asradiations extending all around the head, thus forming the halo so well known in pictures of the saints. The halo is a fact in nature and not just a symbol. It is the result of the work of Raja Yoga and is the physical demonstration of the life and light of the spiritual man. Vivekan and a says, speaking technically (and it is good for Western occult students to master the technique and terminology of this science of the soul which the East has held in trust for so long):"The chitta has, by its own nature, all knowledge. It is made of sattva particles, but is covered by rajas and tamas particles, and by pranayama this covering is removed."(LOS 253) 5. As a result of sanyama comes the shining forth of the light.There are several terms used here by various commentators and translators and it might be of interest to consider some of them, for in the various interpretations will come a full understanding of the Sanskrit terms.Briefly, the idea involves the conception that the nature of the soul is light, and that light is the great revealer. The yogi, through steady practise in meditation, has reached the point where he can at will,turn the light which radiates from his very being, in any direction, and can illumine any subject. Nothing can therefore be hid from him and all knowledge is at his disposal. This power is therefore described as:[Page 253]1. Illumination of perception. The light of the soul pours forth and the man on the physical plane, in his brain consciousness, is thereby enabled to perceive that which before was dark and hidden from him. The process may technically be described in the following concise terms:a. Meditation, b. Polarization in the soul or egoic consciousness,c. Contemplation, or the turning of the soul-light upon that which is to be known or investigated,d. The subsequent pouring down of the knowledge ascertained, in a "stream of illumination" into the brain, via the sutratma, the thread-soul, silver cord, or magnetic link. This thread passes through the mind and illumines it. The thoughts engendered in the automatic response of the chitta (or mind stuff)to the knowledge conveyed, are then impressed upon the brain and the man, in his physical consciousness, becomes cognizant of what the soul knows. He becomes illumined.As this process becomes more frequent and steady, a change takes place in the physical man. He becomes more and more synchronized with the soul. The time element in transmission recedes into

the background and the illumination of the field of knowledge by the light of the soul and the illumining of the physical brain,

becomes an instantaneous happening.The

light in the head increases in a corresponding degree and the third eye develops and functions. On the astral and mental plane a corresponding [Page 254] "eye" develops,and thus the ego or soul can illumine all the three planes in the three worlds as well as the soul realm…(LOS 291) 3.Awakening the light in the head so that the aspirant can become a radiant centre of light and illumine all problems, and through its light see light everywhere.6. This effected, the fire at the base of the spine, dormant hitherto, will be aroused and can proceed upward with security,blending ultimately with the fire or light in the head, and so pass out, having "burned out all dross, and left all channels clear" for the use of the ego.(LOS 292)

This light is in the nature of an internal radiance, its position is in the head, in the neighborhood of the pineal gland, and it is produced by the activity of the soul.A good deal of discussion has been aroused, by the term"central organ" associated with this light. Some commentators refer this to the heart, others to the head. Technically neither of them are entirely right, for to the trained adept the "central organ" is the causal vehicle,the karana sarira, the body of the ego, the sheath of the soul. This is the middle of the "three periodical vehicles" which the divine Son of God discovers and utilizes in the course of his long pilgrimage.(LOS 293) In the science of yoga, which has to be wrought out and mastered in the physical body the term "central organ" is applied to the head or the heart, and the distinction is one of time primarily.The heart in the earlier stages of unfoldment upon the Path is the central organ;

later it is the organ in the head where the true light has its abiding place.(LOS 305) With these five, the aspirant is primarily concerned. The centre called the spleen was dominant [Page 305] in Lemurian days but is now relegated to the domain of the fully functioning and therefore automatic centres, and has sunk below the threshold of consciousness.The centre between the eyebrows is the

one through which the light in the head is cast upon things"subtle, obscure, hidden or remote"and is a result of the unfolding of the head and heart.(LOS 315) 2.Those who have attained self-mastery can be seen and contactedthrough focussing the light in the head.This power is developed in one-pointed meditation.This is a paraphrase of a very general nature, but gives the exact sense of the terms employed. In the twenty-fifth sutra we considered the nature of the light in the head. Here it might briefly bestated that when the

aspirant is aware of the light in the head, and can utilize it atwill, turning its radiance upon all that he seeks to know, the time comes when he can not only turn it outward on to the field of knowledge wherein he functions in the three worlds, but can turn it in wardand direct it upward into those realms wherein the saints of God, the great "Cloud of Witnesses" walk.He can, therefore, through its medium, become aware of the world of the Masters, Adepts and Initiates and thus contact them in full waking consciousness,registering those contacts with his physical brain apparatus.Hence the

necessity of becoming aware of one's own light, of trimming one'slamp and of using the light that is in one, to the full. By use and care, the power of the spiritual light grows and waxes and develops a dual function….here are two inferences here which have nothing to correspond to them in modern thought. One is,that there is a light in the head; and the other, that there are divine beings who maybe seen by those who thus concentrate upon the 'light in the head.' It is held that a certain nerve, or psychic current, called Brahmarandhra-nadi, passes out through the brain near the top of the head.In this there collects more of the luminous principle innature than elsewhere in the body and it is called jyotis—the light in the head.And, as every result is to be brought about by the use of appropriate means, the seeing of divine beings can be accomplished by concentration upon that part of the body more nearly connected with them.This point—the end of Brahmarandhra-nadi—is [Page 315] also the place where the connection is made between man and the solar forces."It is this light which causes the "face to shine" and is responsible for the halo depicted around the head of all saints and Masters and which is seen by those with clairvoyant vision around the head of all advanced aspirants and disciples .Dvivedi also gives the same teaching in the following words:"The light in the head is explained to be that

collective flow of the light of sattva which is seen at the Brahmarandhra which is variously supposed to be somewhere near the coronal artery, the pineal gland, or over the medulla oblongata. Just as the light of a lamp burning within the four wallsof a house presents a luminous appearance at the keyhole,so even does the light of sattvashow itself at the crown of the head.This light is very familiar to all acquainted evens lightly with Yoga practices and is seen even by concentration on the space between the eyebrows. By Samyama (meditation) on this light the class of beings called siddhas— popularly known in theosophic circles as Mahatmas or high adepts—able to walk through space unseen, are immediately brought to view, notwithstanding obstacles of space and time."33. All things can be known in the vivid light of the intuition.There are three aspects of knowledge associated with the light in the head.First, there is that knowledge which the ordinary [Page 316] man canpossess, which perhaps is best expressed in the word theoretical. It makes a man aware of certain hypotheses, possibilities and explanations. It gives to him an understanding of ways, means and methods, and enables him to take the first step towards correct ascertainment and achievement. This is true of that knowledge which Patanjali deals with. By acting upon this knowledge and by conforming to the requirements of the intended investigation or development, the aspirant becomes aware of the light in the head.

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My art tonight. drawing colored.

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Caterpillar Self lived a limited existence

The world accepted her meager body

And fed her scraps of life and leaves

She marveled at the beauty of the flowers

And climbed a few just to see what else waited

She worked hard on herself

She pushed her little aching body

To the farthest reaches of her little garden

She entertained caterpillar friends

Listened to caterpillar music

Worked a caterpillar job

But silently at night she would cry

Her heart pounded in her little chest

A great cascading Dream called to her

She called back to the Dream

A feeling of flight and colors stirred

A sensation of indescribable expansion

Just when she felt she would burst in this joy

Just when she felt it was too much to hold

A miraculous event began to weave itself

Within herself

Around herself

Out of herself

For an instant she thought she saw herself as a flower

In that moment Butterfly Self laughed

And thought she remembered herself as a little worm.

Ganga Fondan, 2009

Meditation on the third proclamation:

"Individual Consciousness is the creative force. My Consciousness is the Creator. " - Tulshi Sen, "Ancient Secrets of Success for Today's World"

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Featured Image from ongoing Series, "Only one of my floor"

Maya often hides pennies around her flat only to later feel excitement in finding them. She admires the new world but doesn't go outside.

ARTIST STATEMENT

In the moment of staring out a window, paradoxically, our awareness isn't in the slightest interest of what's currently taking place outside. More so, it seems as though we surrender to the untapped information of the mind. Imaginations tends to fill in the narrative through the images in Only one on my floor. Our child-like inquisitiveness becomes the catalyst in which possibilities form through windows which hijack our attention. This photographic series is off beat in nature, catered for the avid day-dreamer or gullible mind.

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ABOUT THE ARTIST

Chance Nkosi Gomez known initiated by H.H Swami Jyotirmayanda as Sri Govinda walks an integral yogic path in which photography is the primary creative field of expression. The medium was introduced during sophomore year of high school by educator Dr. Devin Marsh of Robert Morgan Educational Center. Coming into alignment with light, its nature and articulating the camera was the focus during that time. Thereafter while completing a Photographic Technology Degree, the realization of what made an image “striking” came to the foreground of the inner dialogue. These college years brought forth major absorption and reflection as an apprentice to photographer and educator Tony A. Chirinos of Miami Dade College. The process of working towards a singular idea of interest and thus building a series became the heading from here on while the camera aided in cultivating an adherence to the present moment. The viewfinder resembles a doorway to the unified field of consciousness in which line, shape, form, color, value, texture all dissolve. It is here that the yogi is reminded of sat-chit-ananda (the supreme reality as all-pervading; pure consciousness). As of May 2024 Govinda has completed his 300hr yoga teacher training program at Sattva Yoga Academy studying from Master Yogi Anand Mehrotra in Rishikesh, India, Himalayas. This has strengthened his personal Sadhana and allows one to carry and share ancient Vedic Technology leading others in ultimately directing their intellect to bloom into intuition. As awareness and self-realization grows so does the imagery that is all at once divine in the mastery of capturing and controlling light. Over the last seven years he has self-published six photographic books, Follow me i’ll be right behind you (2017), Sonata - Minimal Study (2018), Birds Singing Lies (2018), Rwanda (2019), Where does the body begin? (2019) & Swayam Jyotis (2023). Currently, Govinda is employed at the Leica Store Miami as a camera specialist and starting his journey as a practitioner of yoga ॐ

5th Platonic Solid - The Ether - Geometric Representation of the higher dimensions and crystalline consciousness grid our earth is surrounded by.

See Wiki for more details:

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The Platonic solids have been known since antiquity. Ornamented models of them can be found among the carved stone balls created by the late neolithic people of Scotland at least 1000 years before Plato (Atiyah and Sutcliffe 2003). Dice go back to the dawn of civilization with shapes that augured formal charting of Platonic solids.

The ancient Greeks studied the Platonic solids extensively. Some sources (such as Proclus) credit Pythagoras with their discovery. Other evidence suggests he may have only been familiar with the tetrahedron, cube, and dodecahedron, and that the discovery of the octahedron and icosahedron belong to Theaetetus, a contemporary of Plato. In any case, Theaetetus gave a mathematical description of all five and may have been responsible for the first known proof that there are no other convex regular polyhedra.

The Platonic solids feature prominently in the philosophy of Plato for whom they are named. Plato wrote about them in the dialogue Timaeus c.360 B.C. in which he associated each of the four classical elements (earth, air, water, and fire) with a regular solid. Earth was associated with the cube, air with the octahedron, water with the icosahedron, and fire with the tetrahedron. There was intuitive justification for these associations: the heat of fire feels sharp and stabbing (like little tetrahedra). Air is made of the octahedron; its minuscule components are so smooth that one can barely feel it. Water, the icosahedron, flows out of one's hand when picked up, as if it is made of tiny little balls. By contrast, a highly un-spherical solid, the hexahedron (cube) represents earth. These clumsy little solids cause dirt to crumble and break when picked up, in stark difference to the smooth flow of water. Moreover, the solidity of the Earth was believed to be due to the fact that the cube is the only regular solid that tesselates Euclidean space. The fifth Platonic solid, the dodecahedron, Plato obscurely remarks, "...the god used for arranging the constellations on the whole heaven". Aristotle added a fifth element, aithêr (aether in Latin, "ether" in English) and postulated that the heavens were made of this element, but he had no interest in matching it with Plato's fifth solid

Flea in the garden

Bilinç üzerine 2

"On consciousness"

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Consciousness, Attitude. Engagement.....all this on behalf of the environmental preservation that makes us alive. Cambára do Sul, RS, Brazil

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Spirituality for me is like feeling alive in the moment.

I am where I am supposed to be,

I am what I am supposed to be,

I dont have to judge it,

I just need to let the energy flow through me and

try to be a positive force in the world.

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Masters, Adepts and Initiates

and thus contact them in full waking consciousness,registering those contacts with his physical brain apparatus.Hence the

necessity of becoming aware of one's own light, of trimming one'slamp

and of using the light that is in one, to the full. By use and care, the power of the spiritual lightgrows and waxes and develops a dual function….here are two inferences here which have nothing to correspond to them in modern thought. One is,that there is a

light in the head

; and the other, that

there are divine beings who maybe seen by those who thus concentrate upon the 'light in the head.

' It is heldthat a certain nerve, or psychic current, called Brahmarandhra-nadi, passes out through the brain near the top of the head.

In this there collects more of the luminous principle innature than elsewhere in the body

and it is

called jyotis—the light in the head

.And, as every result is to be brought about by the use of appropriate means, the seeing of divine beingscan be accomplished by concentration upon that part of the body more nearly connected with them.This point—the end of Brahmarandhra-nadi—is [Page 315] also the place where the connection ismade between man and the solar forces."It is

this light which causes the "face to shine

" and is responsible for the halo depictedaround the head of all saints and Masters and which is seen by those with clairvoyant vision aroundthe head of all advanced aspirants and disciples.Dvivedi also gives the same teaching in the following words:"The light in the head is explained to be that

collective flow of the light of sattva

which isseen at the Brahmarandhra which is variously supposed to be somewhere near the coronal artery, the pineal gland, or over the medulla oblongata. Just as the light of a lamp burning within the four wallsof a house presents a luminous appearance at the keyhole,

so even does the light of sattvashow itself at the crown of the head.

This light is very familiar to all acquainted evenslightly with Yoga practices and

is seen even by concentration on the space betweenthe eyebrows

. By Samyama (meditation) on this light the class of beings called siddhas— popularly known in theosophic circles as Mahatmas or high adepts—able to walk through spaceunseen, are immediately brought to view, notwithstanding obstacles of space and time."33. All things can be known in the vivid light of the intuition.There are

three aspects of knowledge associated with the light in the head.First, there is that knowledge which the ordinary [Page 316] man canpossess, which perhaps is best expressed in the word theoretical. It makes a

man aware of certain hypotheses, possibilities and explanations. It gives to him an understanding of ways, means and methods, and enables him to take the first step towards correct ascertainment andachievement. This is true of that knowledge which Patanjali deals with. By acting upon thisknowledge and by conforming to the requirements of the intended investigation or development, theaspirant

becomes aware of the light in the head.Secondly, discriminative knowledge is the next type utilized by the aspirant

.The light having been contacted, is used, and the result is that the pairs of opposites become apparent,duality is known, and the question of choice comes in. The light of God is cast upon either side of the

razor edged path the aspirant is endeavouring to tread, and at first this "noble middle" path is not soapparent as that which lies on either side. By the addition of dispassion or non-attachment todiscriminative knowledge, hindrances are worn away, the veil which hides the light becomesincreasingly thin until eventually the

third or highest light is touched

.

Thirdly, the "light of the intuition

" is one of the terms which can be applied to this type of illuminative knowledge. It results from the treading of the path and the overcoming of the pairs of opposites, and is the forerunner of complete illumination and the full light of day. Ganganatha Jha inhis brief commentary touches on all these three. He says:"Intelligence is the emancipator—the forerunner of discriminative knowledge, as the dawn is of sunrise. On the production of intuitional insight, the yogi comes to know everything."….Through

concentration, therefore, on the light in the head

, knowledge of thespiritual worlds and of those pure spirits who work and walk in them is achieved, for Atma or spiritshines there. Similarly through concentrated meditation upon the heart, knowledge of the secondaspect, of the conscious intelligent principle which makes a man a son of God, is gained.(SAIM 143) Another effect claimed for this relationship between the two head centres and their corresponding glands is that the

interplay between the two produces the shiningforth of a light

. There is much corroborative evidence in this connection in the Scriptures of theworld, including Christ's injunction to His followers to "let their light shine." There is cumulativeevidence also in the lives of [Page 143] the mystics, who again and again in their writings bear testimony to a light that has been seen. I sent out a letter to a group of students (who have beenstudying meditation for several years) asking if they were aware of any phenomena of interest as theresult of their work. The letter was not sent to neurotics and visionary types, but to men and women of good standing in the business, artistic and literary fields, and with accomplishment to their credit.

Seventy-five per cent testified to seeing a light in the head

. Were they hallucinated?Were they the victims of their imaginations? What was it they saw? and constantly see?An interesting field for investigation lies here also, and the results may have a basis in the fact, nowrecognised by science, that light is matter, and matter is light. When the soul is functioning and theman has achieved conscious union with that soul, he may then, through the extra stimulation involved, become aware of the light of the etheric body at its main point of junction with the physical body atthe most important centre in the body, the head centre. Professor Bazzoni says:"We have seen that all forms of matter on the earth are made up of 92 different kinds of atoms groupedinto molecules which, taken together in countless millions, form all of the bodies which we see aboutus and indeed for that matter, our own bodies. Now, any one of these 92 kinds of atoms when

stimulated in certain ways well known to science can be made to give off light

—generally coloured light—and the nature of [Page 144] this light is peculiar and characteristicfor each of the 92 atoms."(EP1 131) The achievement of full awareness is of course the goal of the evolutionary process.Again symbolically speaking, the unevolved man emits or manifests no light. The

light in thehead is invisible, though the clairvoyant investigators would see the dimglow of the light

within the elements which constitute the body, and the light hidden in the atomswhich constitute the form nature.

As evolution proceeds, these dim points of "dark light" intensify their glow; the

light within thehead flickers at intervals

during the life of the average man, and becomes a shining light as heenters upon the path of discipleship. When he becomes

an initiate, the light of the atomsis so bright, and the light in the head so intense

(with a paralleling stimulation of thecentres of force in the body), that the light body appears. Eventually this body of light becomesexternalised and of greater prominence than the dense tangible physical body. This is the body of lightin which the true son of God consciously dwells.

After the third initiation, the dual lightbecomes accentuated and takes on a still greater brilliancy

through the

blending with it of the energy of spirit.

This is not really the admission or the re-combining of a third light, but the

fanning of the light of matter and the light of thesoul into a greater glory

through the Breath of the spirit. Something anent this light has beenearlier indicated in A Treatise on Cosmic Fire.(EP1 231) The mineral kingdom is governed astrologically by Taurus, and there is a symbolic relation between the "

eye" in the head of the Bull, the third eye, the light in the head,and the diamond

. The consciousness of the Buddha has been called the "diamond-eye."(EPII 594) 2. The rhythm of psychic life. This is, in reality, the revelation of where the man stands inrelation to consciousness and its contacts. The adept, when seeking information upon this point, looksfirst of all at the solar plexus centre and then at the heart and head, for in

these three centresand in their relative "light and radiant brightness", the whole story of theindividual stands revealed

. [Page 594] The head centre, looked at for the average or belowaverage man, is the centre between the eyebrows. In the case of the aspirant, mystic and disciple, it isthe highest head centre.(WM 433) there are energies which emanate from...the

Heart of the Sun

; these sweep throughone or other of the

planets in seven great streams

...and produce the

seven types of souls or rays.

(EPII 610) The registering of this inner light often causes serious concern and difficulty to theinexperienced person and the intensity of their concern and fear leads them to think so much of the problem that they become what we occultly call "

obsessed with the light and so fail tosee the Lord of Light

and that which the Light reveals". I would point out here that

allaspirants and occult students do not see this light.

Seeing it is dependent upon

several factors—temperament, the quality of the physical cells of the brain,the nature of the work

which has been done or of the particular task, and the extent of themagnetic field. There never need be any difficulty if the [Page 610] aspirant will use the light which isin him for the helping of his fellowmen. It is the

self-centred mystic who gets intodifficulty

, as does the occultist who uses the light which he discovers within himself for selfish purposes, and personal ends.An incidental difficulty is sometimes found when the "

doorway out into the other worlds"is discovered

and becomes, not a door for rightful and proper use, but a way of escape from thedifficulties of life and a short cut out of conscious physical experience. The connection then betweenthe mystic and his physical vehicle becomes less and less firmly established and the link gets looser and looser until the man spends most of his time out of his body in a condition of semi-trance or adeep sleep condition

(EPII 610) Students should make

no effort to see the light in the head

, but when it issensed and seen—then there should be a careful regulation and registration of it.

Second raytypes will respond to this phenomenon more easily

and more frequently than first or third ray types.

First ray people will register the inflow of force and power

withfacility and will discover that their problem lies in the control and the right direction of such energies.Much of the present impasse to be found in the personalities of the aspirants of the world is due to thefact that the

light that is in them remains undirected and the power that isflowing through them remains unused or misapplied.

Much of the

physicalblindness and the poor sight

to be found in the world today (unless the result of accident) is

due to the presence of the light of the head—unrecognised and unused

—andthus producing or exciting a definite effect upon the eyes and upon the optic nerve. Technicallyspeaking, the light of the soul—localised in the region of the pineal gland—works through and would be directed through the right eye which is (as you have been told) the organ of the buddhi, [Page 611]whilst the light of the personality—localised in the region of the pituitary body—functions through theleft eye. The time has not yet come when this statement means much except to very advancedstudents, but it should be on record for the future use of disciples and aspirants.I would also like to point out that one of the difficulties today is that the

light of thepersonality is more active within the head than is the light of the soul

and thatit has far more of the quality of burning than has soul light. The

effect of the soul light isstimulating and occultly cool.

It brings the brain cells into functioning activity, evokingresponse from cells at present quiescent and unawakened. It is as these cells are brought into activity by the inflow of the

light of the soul that genius appears

, accompanied often by some lack of balance or control in certain directions.(RI 274) The two types of triangles now being created by a mere handful of people are related to that basic triangle. A

third type of triangle will at some much later date

be constructed but only when these two earlier types are well established in the consciousness of humanity. Then theactivity of all the three Buddhas will be involved and present, and a major planetary integration willtake place. This is symbolised in man when the

three centres in the head (the ajnacentre, the brahmarandra centre, and the alta major centre)

are [Page 274] allfunctioning and unshakably related, thereby

constituting a triangle of light within thehead.

(RI 671) What is oft omitted from normal consideration is the fact that the increasing activity of these

two "points of light within the head

" is basically related to what is occurring in the sacraland throat centres, as the transmutative process proceeds and the energies of the sacral centre aregathered up into the throat centre—without, however, withdrawing all the energy from the lower centre; thus its normal activity is properly preserved. The two centres in the head then becomecorrespondingly active; the negative and the positive elements affect each other, and the

light inthe head shines forth; a line of light,

permitting free interplay, is established

betweenthe ajna centre and the head centre, and therefore between the pituitarybody and the pineal gland

. When this line of light is present and there is an

unobstructed relation between the two centres and the two glands, then thefirst initiation becomes possible

. When this takes place, it must not be inferred that the task of transmutation going on between the lower and the higher centres and the relationship between

two head centres is fully and finally completed and established. The line of light is still tenuous andunstable, but it is in existence. It is the energy let loose at the first initiation and distributed into thesacral and the throat centres (via the slowly awakening head centre) which brings the transmutation process to a successful conclusion and stabilises the relationship within the head. This process maytake several lives of steadily intensifying effort on the part of the initiate-disciple.…Just as the antahkarana has to be constructed and established as a bridge of

light between theSpiritual Triad and the soul-infused personality,

so a similar bridge or correspondence is established between the soul and the personality, and, in connection with themechanism of the disciple, between the two head centres and the two glands within the head.(WM 41) The personality hides within itself, as a casket hides [Page 41] the

jewel, that point of soul light which we call the light in the head.

This is found within the brain, and isonly discovered and later used when the highest aspect of the personality, the mind, is developed andfunctioning. Then the union with the soul is made and the soul functions through the lower personalnature.(WM 96) When, however, the sutratmic sushumna, the central nerve channel and its energy isemployed, the soul, as a magnetic intelligent creator, transmits its energies. The plans can then matureaccording to divine purpose and proceed with their building activities "in the light". The

point of egoic and lunar contact emits ever the point of light,

as we have seen from our Rulesfor Magic, and that has its

focus at the point in the sutratma

which has its correspondencein the light in the head of the aspirant.(WM 98) The Solar Orb shines forth in radiant splendor. The

illuminated mind reflects thesolar glory.

The lunar orb rises from the centre to the summit, and is transformed into a radiantsun of light. When these three suns are one, Brahma breaks forth. A lighted world is born.This literally means that when the

soul (symbolized as the Solar Orb) the mind, andthe light in the head form one unit,

the creative power of the solar Angel can express itself in the three worlds, and can construct a form through which its energy can actively express itself. The

lunar orb is a symbolic way of expressing the solar plexus

which eventually mustdo two things:1. Blend and fuse the energies of the

lower two centres of force

, and2. Raise these fused energies and so, blending with the energies of the other and higher centres, reachthe head.(WM 98) I would like also to point out the nature of the service humanity as a whole is rendering inthe general plan of evolution. The rule under our consideration applies not only to the individual man but to the predestined activity of the fourth Kingdom in Nature. Through his meditation, disciplineand service, man

fans into radiant light, illuminating the three worlds, thatpoint of light

which flickered into being at the time of his individualization in past ages. This

finds its reflection in the light in the head

. Thus a rapport is set up, which permits notonly of vibratory synchronization but of a radiation and display of magnetic force, permitting of itsrecognition in the three worlds of a man's immediate environment.(WM 105) Let us now consider the words at the end of the previous rule: "The lower light is thrownupward and the

greater light illuminates the three

; the

work of the fourproceedeth

."

Pylon, Trondheim.

Consciousness

Freestyle Photoshopping of a random notebook doodle.

CONSCIOUSNESS IS QUANTIZED: Consciousness occurs in ‘time slices’ lasting only milliseconds, study suggests.

According to Herzog and fellow researcher Frank Scharnowski from the University of Zurich, neither the ‘continuous’ nor ‘discrete’ hypotheses can by themselves aptly describe how we process the world around us, as numerous studies testing people’s visual awareness seem to disprove both notions.

But what if elements of both hypotheses were taking place at the same time in a continuous interplay between conscious and unconscious thought?

“According to our model, the elements of a visual scene are first unconsciously analysed. This period can last up to 400 ms and involves, amongst other processes, the analysis of stimulus features such as the orientation or colour of elements and temporal features such as object duration and object simultaneity,” the authors write in PLOS Biology.

After this analysis is complete, the researchers say the features we’ve detected are integrated into our conscious perception, compressing all the unconscious recording into something we’re actually aware of.

In other words, while we’re taking the world in, we’re not actually consciously perceiving it. Instead, we’re just mutely using our senses to record data for up to 400 ms at a time. Then, in what could be called a moment of clarity, we consciously perceive the stimuli that our senses have detected.

The team thinks this presentation of information to our consciousness lasts for about 50 milliseconds, during which we also stop taking new sensory information in. And then repeat.

Hmm. Or maybe this is evidence that we’re living in a computer simulation. Also see this.

de.youtube.com/watch?v=uVP40ueBcwA

View On Black

There are an infinite number of universes existing side by side and through which our consciousnesses constantly pass. In these universes, all possibilities exist. You are alive in some, long dead in others, and never existed in still others. Many of our "ghosts" could indeed be visions of people going about their business in a parallel universe or another time -- or both.

............ PAUL F. ENO, Faces at the Window

Bigger for the Brave

Seattle

Graffiti Wall (near Pike's Place)

illustration for "Einaym" magazine

'I have eaten a lot of that soup called time. It has made me old. I think perhaps now is my time to shuffle off this mortal coil' the old lady said. She said it to no-one in particular as nobody was there to hear it. A nearby fly landed on her nose and that was that, she was dead.

If you looked very closely however - closer that most would ever dare to look - you would have seen a very brief flash of complicated colour as her soul departed to join her dear departed husband in the great soul co-mingling/sex party in the sky.

This canvas is as close as we dare get with human perceived colours to that flash of departing human consciousness. Well, that's my story and i'm sticking to it. She's on 60x60cm canvas and can be hung however you'd like. I've forgotten which way I even started working on it. So there. Drop us a line if you need her on your wall...

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(theory that all existence is subjective and nothing exists outside of the mind.)

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My art tonight. drawing colored.

The ascended masters of the Great White Brotherhood initiate earth’s evolutions in the God-consciousness of each of the hierarchies, as taught by Mother Mary to Mark and Elizabeth Prophet for sons and daughters of God returning to the Law of the One and their point of origin beyond the worlds of form and lesser causation. (Source: Elizabeth Clare Prophet, “Seminar on the Cosmic Clock: Charting the Cycles of Your Karma, Psychology and Spiritual Powers on the Cosmic Clock,” 2 audiocassettes and accompanying packet of study materials, available from the Summit Lighthouse website at www.thesummitlighthouse.org).

Cities also have divine blueprints with specific major monuments and buildings that are spiritual focuses and that correspond to the twelve lines of the cosmic clock. The following summary describes the monuments and buildings of the cosmic clock of Miss Liberty.

Ascended Master way is living inside the statue, and had been deep in meditation, practicing and preparing himself for the Ascension attempt, so he was not able to react in time to stop the killing blow, but upon sensing his brother’s imminent attack The Guardian of the Temple was able to pull his consciousness out of his physical body and into the Merkaba (light body) or crowded energy in the Crowne, human spirit had just been working on. He then simply followed Set while he disposed of the body and then guided his wife and sister to those places shortly after, who recovered his missing parts....Human was melting in the pot of genetically modified brain. Supernatural is today so far away and human forgetting the stairway to heaven , remember Jacobus Dream ( Songe de Jack)

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Exposure Program

Landscape

Location

-- wahrscheinlich ist aber auch die Bezeichnung

"Mons Martis" (Marshügel) - Montmartre

Schon im 12. Jahrhundert errichtete der Orden der Benediktiner in Montmartre ein Kloster (1790 zerstört). Die ehemalige Abtei- und heutige Pfarrkirche Saint-Pierre de Montmartre ist eine der ältesten Sakralbauten von Paris.

The abbey was destroyed in 1790 during the French Revolution, and the convent demolished to make place for gypsum mines. The church of Saint-Pierre was saved

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It is 130 metres high

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The building's origins

The original idea of constructing a church dedicated to the Sacred Heart, with its origins in the aftermath of the French Revolution among ultra-Catholics and legitimist royalists developed more widely in France after the Franco-Prussian War and the ensuing radical Paris Commune of 1870-71.

Though today it is asserted to be dedicated in honor of the 58,000 who lost their lives during the war, the decree of the Assemblée nationale, 24 July 1873, responding to a request by the archbishop of Paris by voting its construction, specifies that it is to "expiate the crimes of the communards". Montmartre had been the site of the Commune's first insurrection, and many hard-core communards were forever entombed in the subterranean galleries of former gypsum mines where they had retreated, by explosives detonated at the entrances by the Army of Versailles. Hostages had been executed on both sides, and the Communards had executed Georges Darboy, Archbishop of Paris, who became a martyr for the resurgent Catholic Church.

His successor Guibert, climbing the Butte Montmartre in October 1872, was reported to have had a vision, as clouds dispersed over the panorama: "It is here, it is here where the martyrs are, it is here that the Sacred Heart must reign so that it can beckon all to come". Today it is viewed as a tacit acknowledgement of the massacre of the communards by the Versailles army.

In the moment of inertia following the resignation of the government of Adolphe Thiers, 24 May 1873, François Pie, bishop of Poitiers, expressed the national yearning for spiritual renewal— "the hour of the Church has come"— that would be expressed through the "Government of Moral Order" of the Third Republic, which linked Catholic institutions with secular ones, in "a project of religious and national renewal, the main features of which were the restoration of monarchy and the defense of Rome within a cultural framework of official piety", of which Sacré-Coeur is the chief lasting monument.

The decree voting its construction as a "matter of public utility", 24 July, followed close on Thiers' resignation. The project was expressed by the Church as a National Vow (Voeu national) and financial support came from parishes throughout France. The dedicatory inscription records the Basilica as the accomplishment of a vow by Alexandre Legentil and Hubert Rohault de Fleury, ratified by Joseph-Hippolyte Guibert, Archbishop of Paris. The project took many years to complete.

Construction

In 1873 the city council of Paris voted a law of public utility to seize land at the summit of Montmartre for the construction of the basilica. Architect Paul Abadie designed the basilica after winning a competition over 77 other architects. With delays in assembling the property, The foundation stone was finally laid 16 June 1875. Passionate debates concerning the Basilica were raised in the Conseil Municipal in 1880, where the Basilica was called "an incessant provocation to civil war" and it was debated whether to rescind the law of 1873 granting property rights, an impracticable proposition. The matter reached the Chamber of Deputies in the summer of 1882, the Basilica being ably defended by Archbishop Guibert and Georges Clemenceau expressing the view that the Basilica sought to stigmatise the Revolution. The law was rescinded, but the Basilica was saved by a technicality and was not reintroduced in the next session. A further attempt to halt the construct levi is gayion was defeated in 1897, by which time the interior was substantially complete and had been opened

Consciousness

The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), better known as the Hare Krishna Movement was founded by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in 1966 in New York City, eleven years before he died at the age of 81.

The popular nickname of Hare Krishnas for devotees of this movement comes from the Maha Mantra that devotees sing aloud or chant quietly. This mantra contains the names of God Krishna and Rama. Devotees believe that the sound vibration created by repeating these names of God gradually revives a state of pure God-consciousness, or Krishna consciousness.

The Hare Krishna mantra appears in a number of famous songs, most notably the late George Harrison's My Sweet Lord.........Wikipedia

Australia Day, The Rocks, Sydney, Australia (Tuesday 26 Jan 2010 @ 12:01 pm)

Grey Paint Texture from Skeletal Mess

D80 and Nikkor 50mm f1.8D lens

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Consciousness creates time through remembering.

A psychological function creates time.

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Keine Zeit mehr zu verlieren.

Die Vorstellung des Verstandes, es gäbe drei Zeiten, Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft, muss als eine Vorstellung als solche erkannt werden. Es gibt nur ein Hier und Jetzt. Vergangenheit ist Gedanke und Zukunft ist Denken. Beides existiert nur in der Vorstellung. Alle Zeiten müssen im Augenblick des Seins zusammenfließen. Leben in der goldenen Zeit.

Vergangenheit ist Kupfer, Zukunft Silber, das Jetzt ist Gold.

Der Verstand muss erkennen, dass die Unterscheidung der drei Zeiten ein Konzept, eine Vorstellung ist. Die Gedanken können in die Vergangenheit, sie können auch in die Zukunft, aber es sind die Gedanken, die sich darin befinden. Die Zeit selbst existiert nur als augenblickliches Sein im ständigen Wandel.

Dennoch gehen wir mit der Zeit so um. Der Dämon der Zeit macht uns glauben, man habe so etwas wie Vergangenheit.

Man hat Gedanken an Erlebtes, man hat schöne oder lästige Erinnerungen, aber man kann weder konkret in der Vergangenheit leben noch in der Zukunft. Man lebt immer nur jetzt hier auf diesem Stuhl, hier im Augenblick, hier im Jetzt.

Wenn du jetzt in der Zukunft bist, dann bist nicht wirklich hier. Du bist gespalten mit deiner Aufmerksamkeit. Ein Teil ist hier, ein anderer in einem Film, einer Phantasie.

Es ist notwendig, die Gleichheit aller Zeiten zu akzeptieren und zu erkennen. Es gibt immer nur Jetzt!

Wenn du verstehst, dass es nur diesen Augenblick gibt, dann löst sich alle Negativität und dein Anhaften daran auf. Keine Schuld und keine Schuldvorwürfe. Leer.

Auf diese Weise kann negative Erinnerung gelöscht werden. Aus der Vergangenheit kommen Impulse wie Schuldgefühle, Vorsicht, Skepsis, Verschließen, Ego. Alle Erinnerungen tragen dazu bei, das Ego in Funktion zu halten.

Das Ego definiert sich aus Vergangenheit und Zukunft. Lösen sich diese beiden Zeiten im Augenblick auf, ist das Ego verschwunden. Im Augenblick gibt es kein Ego, nur die Vision eines Körpers in einem Raum unter wechselnden Umständen die nicht bewertet werden. Das entspricht dem kleinkindlichen Bewusstseinszustand.

Wie sagte Lao Tzu: “The True Person remains childlike.

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Digital art based on own photography and textures

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If a tree falls in a forest and noone is around to hear it. does it make a sound?

If there is nobody to hear it, there is no sound.

If there is noone to see it, there is no tree.

There is no forest.

Without consciousness there is nothing.

It`s consciousness that creates the universe, not the other way around.

i really didn't have anything in mind while creating this image.. i had to do it fast because i passed out last night while putting my son to bed... it was such a long day and the body needed rest.. anyway.. i usually do all my work with a bit of the unknown when i start..i like to let the image come from inspiration rather than my thoughts..

it came out rather sci-fi and dreamlike.. and it reminds me that much of what we cling and attach to in this life is an illusion.. or in other words things that we think we can have or hold on to and that we think will bring us happiness.. such as material things we own.. or even status and beauty.. all things eventually fail at giving us happiness and fulfillment. even though i am aware of this.. i still battle with it..

" That which most people treasure is transient and fleeting, but eternity cannot be attained through things that are not eternal"

~The Upanishads

"Beware of the desire for things, for one's life does not equal an abundance of possessions"

~The Gospel of Luke

" One leaves a smaller joy to attain a greater one. Therefore, leave the small and find that which is great"

~the Dhammapada

" The person who is contented with what they have is richer than the richest."

~ The Tao Te Ching