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Opium Consciousness.
Uitnodigende beelden vormgeven geïrriteerd enorme roken flacon's,
comfortable cursu actiones platonica attrahitur intelligens,
βραστό αποσπάσματα πρωτόγονη ιατρική ουρλιάζοντας σωλήνων έπεσε,
lit impavido efficienza confuso luminosa di antenna,
beddau chuckling oriau dwfn hysterig picio,
límites cerebrales pruebas neurológicas recuerdos ignorados normales pasados,
ছায়া প্রহৃত নাচ রে তাপ মাউন্ট,
encostas empurpled apreensão translucidez peneirar embowered derreter,
utjecale ćudi štrajk vrtoglavice fenomen ustraje,
Gallen Koma Staaten lymphatischen Sanguiniker Augen unsicher Manieren stimulieren,
γλυκύτητα ηλιόλουστη απόδραση πλωτά σκάφη του Αλιάκμονα νερά που κατασχέθηκαν,
пострадавших сердце подвесные весы воображаемых проникновения в утилизировать,
overbevisende situasjon debattere friheter menneskeheten svømming stormen,
pojednaniem historie Osiągnięcie progu Dream jawie,
hiljaa ulkonevat askelmat ihmetellään n pyrkii huulet tarjotaan,
montre bwa chandèl fimen enkyetid estraòdinè parèt,
допунама динамичан лудило змије сложене идеје хаос уочених,
bule care călătoresc fire conexiuni panteiste bobine interval de,
もう一度doの主語がthouの時の直説法·現在形を機能して驚異的な研究がたくさんの洞察!
Steve.D.Hammond.
I am aware that death consciousness is my number one ‘driver’ now. But then I also think that this is a ‘good thing’, as Martha would have it. It’s why I am driven to write and make images. Sex has been knocked (and locked) into the boot of this particular vehicle; it doesn’t even get to occupy the front passenger seat (complaining). This is fortuity and nothing else. It wasn’t planned, or chosen, it just evolved/devolved ‘naturally into ‘excess baggage’ mode.
I know the usual time-honoured male route, that resorting to alcohol and a little blue pill, younger lovers to make one feel vital again, that traditional slalom, but no, again fortuity intervened and made alcohol unpalatable, and youth unattractive. I appear blessed with perversity, yet again.
I take great joy in sitting still and pushing ideas around. I know the experts suggest one moves, one exercises. It is how one stays young apparently, staves off the inevitable, so to speak. But I say what about the health of that motivator (that driver), that one not dangling between your legs, but rather that eejit lodged up there between your shell-like lugholes. What about ‘choosing’ to exercise that poltroon, above all else; what are the ‘health benefits’ there? How ‘healthy’ does Hanif Kureishi seem to be in his writings now? I would suggest healthier than ever, positively glowing, even.
The Buddha never admonished us to do press-ups under a tree, or build a ‘standing desk’ there. He suggested that we find one, any would do, and sit under it, and that everything would come to one. What a clever little deity he was, it’s a pity I don’t believe in him. But then they all have something pithy to say, just like you and me.
There you are, a whole paragraph starting with ‘I’ and ending with ‘Me’; ain’t I a riot? Alpha and Omega man, how are you? Having a healthy disrespect for the whole ruddy alphabet might be a good starting point, or not.
I was having one of those video talks on the phone with my sister (Phil) recently, commiserating over a struggle with health issues, which she appears to have overcome, supporting her in her recovery. Anyway, she moved onto the age thing. Our birthdays are a week apart, hers being coincidentally today, though she is two years older than me (so turning 71 today). I will be talking to her later this very day too for that reason. Anyway, she mentioned how old I looked, how my white beard made me look older, and that if I shaved it off, I could engineer a reversal. I was the victim of a senseless drive-by iPhone makeover, apparently.
I am afraid I flabbergasted her when I told her that I love looking my age, and love being older. That’s partially what these new images are about, that self-acceptance. I like to see Geriatric Chatterton (who supposedly killed himself at the age of 18, giving us that idealised corpse meme) resurrected and going surfing with his pensioner ‘mate’, Samuel Pepys, though they were born a century apart. I suspect they were lifelong lovers, but who am I to ‘out’ them? What’s a century between ‘friends’?
I like making the ‘invisible’ visible again.
One of my Jewish friends in New York would always make me laugh, claiming he was "The victim of a senseless drive-by bris". A bris is the act of circumcision performed by the mohel.
It's fun to remember this hilarious descriptor. Needless to say, I will have to, at some point, follow it up with an image. You have been warned.
Snarf / Feft-Reihe
- John Pound / Cosmic Consciousness
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ex libris MTP
As a child I was partial to the somewhat peculiar notion that all things were conscious to some degree or other. I remember quite vividly wondering what it might be like if one were, say, a wall (actually a particular low red-brick wall somewhere lost in the Lincolnshire fens): slow, solid thoughts, a love of the feel of the earth under the foundations, enjoyment of the pressure of the wind and rain; that sort of thing.
Later, I became enamoured by the idea that when a person died and was buried, their consciousness, their very essence, might slowly leech into the earth and be taken up by the soil and the stone. And, most importantly, if at some point someone were to move said soil or stone, then some of the substance of the deceased would move with it, spreading them out across reality; retaining personality and memories, but mingling with all the other body-less entities inhabiting the elements, objects and even the very fabric of space itself; the whole eventually becoming some sort of planetary or even universal consciousness.
Which brings us to the cross in the picture, originally set in place as a mark of remembrance…
Who is it that this cross remembers?
Whoever the resident of that grave was, their name is lost to the casual visitor now, but perhaps something of them lingers on in the stone?
And perhaps that’s enough to make one tarry a while...
It was for me.
––
St. Enodoc’s chapel in St. Minver parish, Cornwall.
Usual caveats etc.
Lorenzo Tosti
"the Roots of Consciousness"
Inverno 2014
Tecnica Mista
Dimensioni : ca. 100cm x 60cm
Un grazie per la disponibilità e l'entusiasmo alla fotografa Tanja Frieling (www.flickr.com/photos/98977262@N08/) che mi ha gentilmente concesso l'utilizzo della foto da cui ha avuto origine questo lavoro (www.flickr.com/photos/98977262@N08/11424429193/ : immagine coperta da copyright).
Grazie anche Chebet per la disponibilità e al suo www.facebook.com/Wazawazi?fref=ts
"Stream of Consciousness", by Katherine Kerr:
"A bridge spans a small pond and stream, becoming a metaphor for connections with the past and future and reflecting on the life cycle of the salmon and the remarkable journey they endure. Inspired by and incorporating railway tracks and ties, the bridge floor has multiple bronze phrases relating to salmon, fishing and hatcheries inlaid into the wooden floor." — Katherine Kerr
14x17 July 2021
Quarantine Art Club
This is a sketchbook watercolor painting. I was watching a video on buildings and how they find unusual things when they dig the foundations. Inspiration really does come from anywhere, if you let it. I often (not always) like to have at least one organic thing in an abstract painting. What do you think?
The nature of the seen exists for the seer alone. The entire world-process exists for serving the soul. Matter has no existence or reality without consciousness that lends reality to it. Matter cannot be known to exist without consciousness, and if consciousness is taken away from matter, it will cease to exist. Tadartha Eva Drishyasya Atma – Sutra 21 ॐ Adorations to Sage Pantajali
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Chance Nkosi Gomez known as Sri Govindaji (29 years of age) 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
"Our thoughts, feelings, words, and actions are all forms of energy. What we think, feel, say, and do in each moment comes back to us to create our realities. Energy moves in a circle, so what goes around comes around. The combined thoughts, feelings, words and actions of everyone on the planet creates our collective consciousness, it creates the world we see before us".
~Drs. Milanovich and McCune
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“When we dream,” Gaston Bachelard says, “we are phenomenologists without realizing it.” He was speaking specifically of daydreaming--the consciousness giving way to spontaneous, wandering thoughts and ideas detached from our current tasks and concerns. We become, without any practice or education, students of the structures of our own consciousness. There is no better time to daydream than during periods of self-isolation.
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“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
Imagine a spirit world. How does it look? How does it feel? How does it sound? Can you imagine these things by any other means than the perceptions you know? If you expect the spirit world to feel – in some aspect – like the real world -, then how can the spirit world – in any...
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Observer (Sequence - #1)
I enjoy
Life is so beautiful
Magic happens every moment
NOW
HKD
Altered states of consciousness
you can “see” and maybe feel in the following 4 pictures
The final state of consciousness is … have a look :-)))
HKD
Da gibt es noch 4 weitere Bilder zu entdecken.
Wechselnde Bewusstseinsverfassungen werden damit zum ausdruck gebracht.
Das ist ein wahres Himmelfahrtskomando!!!
Wer den Kindern folgt, geht nicht verloren... (denn ihrer ist das Himmelreich)
Viel Spaß!
HKD
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"
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:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid
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
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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
."
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.
Alan Ball - American beauty -
The following images in my gallery are created (&/or ) edited by myself with iPhone 4S with various applications. What you see is the final result of my creativity.
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.