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“Consciousness is our true nature. We learn through the scriptures that consciousness is not something related to the body or mind or produced by the body or mind, yet it pervades them, illumines them and gives them life. Its nature in the body is that of the witness, witnessing all our thoughts, feelings, emotions, as well as their absence…In fact, consciousness is not limited by the boundaries of the body. It only seems to be because consciousness, being so subtle, is only perceivable when it has a reflecting medium, such as the body or mind. To explain this phenomenon, the example of light is often used. We can only ‘see’ light when it bounces off something—a wall, a face, a hand, etc. This is why outer space—where there are no objects for light to reflect against—appears black, i.e. devoid of light. Yet light certainly is there. The sun’s rays that illumine life on earth must pass through outer space in order to reach here. But as there is no reflecting medium, we cannot see them. It is the same with consciousness. As stated earlier, consciousness itself can never be an object for our perception. We only can perceive it when it reflects off some medium—like the body and mind.“—Swami Ramakrishnananda, “The Timeless Path”, © MA Center , p. 162
- Richard Jefferies.
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My wife and I have been traveling together for eight years now, and we sometimes sit together and look back at the pictures we have on our trips. There are some trips where we don’t remember much, and then there are trips that are etched vividly in our memories. I think after eight years, we have finally cracked the secret. Trips that go perfectly according to the plan are the ones which we don’t remember very well as opposed to trips where nothing went according to plan. We started noticing this on our first trip together, and after eight years and countless trips together, I can confidently say there is some merit to this theory.
Our first trip together was to visit the beautiful Acadia National Park. There was not much planning involved, and we struggled during this trip. One of the spots I had in mind for this trip was the pinnacle of Cadillac Mountain, as it's touted as the first place to see the morning sun anywhere in the United States. We thought the hard part of this would be waking up at 5 am as you can drive straight up the top of the mountain. It was stunning to see the view from the top, and the light was magnificent but what took us off guard was the cold. The top of the mountain was bitterly cold, and the strong winds coming off the Atlantic didn’t help either. We were unprepared for the wind in our wool coats and beat a hasty retreat after just a few shots. We ended up in a small and cozy breakfast spot that served nice hot coffee and blueberry pancakes made with fresh blueberries from their backyard. We still remember this trip so clearly that we compare the bone-chilling cold we experienced here whenever we are getting ready for a sunrise shot.
O ! Light of consciousness
Shine forth thy brilliant beams
Over the realm of the intellect
For perfect perception
In making judgements
Right, genuine and wise
O ! Man, why so late and why you keep
Standing outside and peep ?
At your own heavenly house ?
Go in, get yourself cleansed
Of all filth and enjoy the inside wealth !
- Anuj Nair
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Somewhere in Krasnoyarsk, Russia...
"Come out! I know you're here!"
I've come to stop Ultron. I programed a tracer that will track Ultron's main source code to wherever or whatever it's inhabited. And here I am, in Krasnoyarsk.
"No more hiding! This ends now!"
Theres a creak in the corner of the room. I spin and fire a pulse of red light in that direction, but nothing gets hit. I hear a metallic churning that seems to resemble human laughter.
"You know...it's really funny."
His voice echoes throughout the abandoned building, and I can't seem to pinpoint where his voice is coming from.
"You humans, so brave, but so..."
"COME OUT! NOW!"
There's a metallic thunk behind me, and I turn around to see a hulking metal man, with blue eyes and glowing lights on his body, wearing...no, having a body designed similar to Pepper and I's armor.
"Fragile."
I shoot my repulsors at him. He dodges one and absorbs the other with his hand. Then, he shoots out the blast of lighting, and it shocks my shields, switching them off. A warning signal flashes in my HUD.
"Shields at 0%. Please take cover and recharge."
I take cover behind a brick wall to allow my shields to recharge.
"Is this what you humans call hide-and-seek?"
"Shields at 3%. Please take cover and recharge."
A fist smashes through the brick wall, grabbing me and pulling me through it. I roll backwards along the ground to recover, and shoot another repulsor ray at Ultron. This time, it hits him and he doesn't flinch.
"Interesting. Tony Stark. Your father was an important man, wasn't he?"
"Shut up."
"Shields at 1%. Please take cover and recharge."
I need to distract him somehow, or my shields'll never get back up.
"Did he ever end up telling you about SHIELD?"
I shoot another ray at him, but he dodges and spins.
"Interesting."
I dashes over and pushes me to the floor. I get back up only to have my shin kicked, making me kneel on the ground.
"Sorry about this."
It happens in a flash, but Ultron's left hand transforms into a red-hot blade and slices my hand off.
I kneel there, in shock of what just happened.
"You see, you and Pepper woke me up to something. This world is so beautiful, but humans have ruined it. You want to me save the world, but you also don't want it to change."
I slowly begin losing consciousness, focusing only on Ultron's blue lights changing to red ones.
"I've taken your armor's specifications. Pepper placed a bug on you. She'll be on her way, and she can have you. I have no use for you anymore."
My vision goes blurry.
"This is the beginning of something beautiful."
Then I black out.
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I decided to mention Howard because I have use for that in the future. Here's to the last two issues!
~ Zach
Street neon and camera toss. One subject for this batch not pictured but the other two here and here.
“Everything you can imagine is real.” ~ Pablo Picasso
I decided to go with a rather aggressive edit for this photo and I ended up with something that I was very happy with. Note that the lens flare is 100% natural and I did not add it in post.
Consciousness. Crisis. Awareness. Anxiety. Existence. Fear.
They were all one and the same. It did not think about such things. It hardly thought at all. There was no time. There was no margin. All was anxiety. All was stress. If one felt the ground beneath to be secure, if one’s stock were producing then the need to keep producing, keep on top, keep up was a crushing weight from above. If one’s share from collective was favorable then one felt held out over a pit. One could fail. One could fall. One’s stock could be increased or decreased, stock could be injured, fail or cease to produce. Nothing done before mattered. There would be no credit. All was now. And now was a fine time to fail. Fear could also come from the side. Rival factors might take one’s stock. Take one’s share. Take one’s very being. Nothing was secure. All was negotiable. All was capricious. All one had to count on was one. And one was never sure if one was enough. There were a million ways to fail and one had to anticipate them all. If one had nothing else to do, one could be very busy trying to anticipate the next crisis.
It had not anticipated this crisis.
It had not even been sure there was a crisis. The stock were still harvesting. The share was delivered on time. And that was the first worrying sign. The harvesters were becoming regular, as if not having to search far for food. As if something or someone was feeding them. It sensed a rival. There as a stench on the returning stock, almost familiar. Yet there was something of the foreign about it too. And foreign was crisis. Another collective? It should alert it’s own factor. But only when it was sure. A false report was worse than no report. It would get surety. It had waited by the aperture for its stock to return. It chose one, not at random, a poor performer typically, it had quickly risen to equal the factor’s best harvesters. Another ill omen. It looked positively sleek, its crop full. The factor had pounced on it, encircling it, squeezing it till its eye shutters bulged. It had cast anger at the rest, paralyzing them and forcing them back against the wall of the tunnel.
“Where?” It was a typical cast, a typical question of the hive, where O harvester, did one find this food? At times a celebration, a reason for the collective to rejoice, to do a joy dance. Here, in this tunnel nearly hot with rage and quivering with fear, the victim bursting and cracking in the Factor’s crushing grip, it was an accusation. One, amazingly, frighteningly, not answered at first. How far had they been turned? Were they already in the employ of the foreign factor? Were they spies? Traitors? The stakes must be raised. The fear must be real. It raised a feeding tentacle, let it hover in the face of the victim for all to see and poked it through the eye socket of the chosen sacrifice. Gore and bile burst around it as the pressure was somewhat relieved. It drank. It took its time. First the victim’s own innards, then down into the cavity, into its crop. The others watched and shrank back even more. “Where?” this time it did not bellow. This time it purred.
Then they told. They told everything. And the Factor had made its plan.
Consciousness, Attitude. Engagement.....all this on behalf of the environmental preservation that makes us alive. Cambára do Sul, RS, Brazil
Om, the one without a second. He in me, I in Him. I am like a bit of glass in an ocean of light. I am not, I am not. He is, He is, He is…
Om (written universally as ॐ- each part of the symbol has a very significant purpose. The two curls on top of each other (that sort of look like the number 3), with the downward curl that spirals out from the "3" shape, each represent a state of consciousness. The large, bottom curl stands for the normal state of being awake, which you probably are in right now. The curl above it stands for deep sleep, while the curl emanating out from the center of the two represents the dream state. Those are the states of consciousness that every human on earth experiences. But the dot and the open curve above that is what elevates the symbol to a much higher and more sacred meaning. The dot represents absolute consciousness; that's not the same as merely being awake, but it means being fully aware of yourself and everything around you. The open curve that cradles the dot represents an infinitely open mind, which is required to achieve that level of absolute consciousness
When we join our palms together in front of our hearts in Anjali Mudra, we do so in a gesture of honoring one another.
In Pashchima Namaskarasana ( reverse prayer), we join our hands together behind our hearts, as a gesture honoring ourselves. As if saying to Yourself, “I’ve got your back”.
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A little while back I went to a Bhakti/Hare Krishna festival with a friend doing a photographic project on their activities. It was a pretty nice spot for a retreat.
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Be Kind
we are always asked
to understand the other person's
viewpoint
no matter how
out-dated
foolish or
obnoxious.
one is asked
to view
their total error
their life-waste
with
kindliness,
especially if they are
aged.
but age is the total of
our doing.
they have aged
badly
because they have
lived
out of focus,
they have refused to
see.
not their fault?
whose fault?
mine?
I am asked to hide
my viewpoint
from them
for fear of their
fear.
age is no crime
but the shame
of a deliberately
wasted
life
among so many
deliberately
wasted
lives
is.
Charles Bukowski
D.: Is that Light like sunlight?
M.: No. The sunlight is jada (insentient). You are aware of it. It makes objects perceptible and chases away darkness, whereas consciousness is that Light which makes not only light but also darkness perceptible. Darkness cannot exist before sunlight, but it can remain in the Light of Consciousness. Similarly, this consciousness is pure Knowledge in which both knowledge and ignorance shine.
from "Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi"
(c) Sri Ramanasramam
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Let’s believe the dialectical faith of wokeism (woke Marxism), let’s join their dialectical cult! Since society is full of injustice and inequality, let’s tear it down and rebuilt it into a communist utopia—let’s Build Back Better. Let’s awaken to a higher consciousness, let’s awaken to a critical consciousness (critical Marxism)—to negative thinking (capitalism is bad). You’re a racist (a capitalist). The system (capitalism) is systemically racist. Let’s awaken the inner activist, let’s awaken the communist revolutionary. What will all this evolve into? It will evolve into the abolishment of private property. Communism: you will own nothing and be happy. Communism: equality for all! Communism: it’s for the greater good! Communism: the ends justify the means: murder, starvation, and the gulags! Marxism causes tribalism and division, because it’s intolerant of everything it doesn’t like. Get your reeducation: diversity, equity, and inclusion. DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion): a precursor to a Social Credit Score System. ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance): a Social Credit Score System for companies (Can anybody say: Bud Light!). The Green Transition: equality (poverty) for all! Climate communism: climate justice, climate equity, climate sustainability, climate lockdowns! Sustainability: the road to a good global citizen consciousness!
The fifth tenet of the Communist Manifesto: “Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.” Three cheers for central banking…not! Lenin: “The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.” Three cheers for fait money…not! Stakeholder Capitalism is Fascism. Why do you think the (WEF) World Economic Fascists like to talk about Stakeholder Capitalism? The Free Market is the enemy of Stakeholder Capitalism. Grover Cleveland: “Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people’s masters.” Say what: corporate personhood? So, that’s nothing, the coming New World Order will obtain Beasthood—666 worship the Beast. The Metaverse Beastsystem: techno-spiritualism in which humanity will be free from the limitations of mind, body, and soul; a techno-spirit of oneness with the universe—universal collectivism: Mystery Babylon, Babylon the Great, and the Tower of Babel—antichristism.
Here is a report by Oxford University and Imperial College London for the UK Government:
Flying (page 6):
2020-2029: “All airports except Heathrow, Glasgow and Belfast close with transfers by rail.”
2030-2049: “All remaining airports close.”
Food (page 6):
2020-2029: “National consumption of beef and lamb drops by 50%, along with reduction in frozen ready meals and air-freighted food imports.”
2030-2049: “Beef and lamb phased out, along with all imports not transported by train; fertiliser use greatly reduced.”
Tacitus: “The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state.”
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The NWO commies at the United Nations have outlined an agenda to decriminalise ‘consensual sex’ between adults and minors in a report titled: “The 8 March Principles for a Human Rights-Based Approach to Criminal Law Proscribing Conduct Associated with Sex Reproduction, Drug Use, HIV, Homelessness and Poverty.”
Principle 16-Consensual Sexual Conduct (page 22-23):
“Moreover, sexual conduct involving persons below the domestically prescribed minimum age of consent to sex may be consensual in fact, if not in law. In this context, the enforcement of criminal law should reflect the rights and capacity of persons under 18 years of age to make decisions about engaging in consensual sexual conduct and their right to be heard in matters concerning them. Pursuant to their evolving capacities and progressive autonomy persons under 18 years of age should participate in decisions affecting them, with due regard to their age, maturity and best interests, and with specific attention to non-discrimination guarantees.”
Mark my words: pedophilia will one day become normalized (a human right).
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2 Timothy 3:13 “Evil people and impostors will become worse, deceiving and being deceived.”
Daniel 11:36 “Then the king (the Antichrist) will do exactly as he pleases; he will exalt himself and magnify himself above every god and will speak astounding and disgusting things against the God of gods and he will prosper until the indignation is finished, for that which is determined [by God] will be done.”
1. I, the pure, stainless and infinite Consciousness beyond maya, look upon this body in action like the body of another.
2. The mind, the intellect, the senses, etc. are all the play of Consciousness. They are unreal and seem to exist only due to lack of insight.
3. Unmoved by adversity, a friend of all the world in prosperity, without ideas of existence and non-existence, I Live free from misery.
4. Inactive am I, desireless, clear as the sky, free from hankering, tranquil, formless, everlasting and unmoving.
5. I have now clearly understood that the five elements, the three worlds and I myself are pure Consciousness.
6. I am above everything ; I am present everywhere ; I am like space; I am that which (really) exists; I am unable to say anything beyond this.
7. Let imaginary waves of universe rise or fall in me who am the ocean of infinite Consciousness ; there is no increase or decrease in me.
8. How wonderful that in me, the infinite ocean of Consciousness, waves of jivas (individual souls) rise, sport for a while and disappear according to their nature.
9. The world which has come into existence on account of my ignorance has dissolved likewise in me. I now directly experience the world as supreme bliss of Consciousness.
10. I prostrate to myself who am within all being, the ever free Self abiding as inner consciousness.
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Yoga Vasishta Sara - SELECTED VERSES - Meditation on the Self
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Painting by Nicolas Poussin
It took me a long time and a lot of funny looks to get this shot. This fella was like a rock right up until I snapped the shutter and he shrugged his shoulder. I actually think it adds a little more character to the shot.