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Poster from Soviet Era in Hungarian National Museum Makes Very Clear the Destructive Power of Russia - Budapest 52 by John Hallam

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The Hungarian Revolution rebelled against the Soviet occupation in 1956. This was the first soviet satellite state to attempt to leave the Warsaw Pact. The Soviets came in hard and crushed the rebellion within days to make an example of Hungary. It is estimated that 30,000 people were killed and 200,000 people left Hungary as a result. In order to assure this didn’t happen again, the Communists installed a government that was tightly controlled by Moscow and for years the Hungarian people lived in the shadow and tight control of Soviet headquarters. This slowed the economic growth.

Shimmery beetle by Zsaj

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Yes, I know they're destructive little devils but they sure are pretty

Most destructive habit: Worry by MdCribVency

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the works by wheres_bruce

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On every level war is a destructive, selfish and evil practice. Knowing this there are buttons pushed to innovate, to accelerate productivity, to find more ways and means to kill more of them and fewer of us. The other mirrors the same; it escalates on both sides .

When science calls, industry runs, government runs away. Technology might get a hand up if there's a sniff of a profit. If war calls, the treasury falls open, industry and government finds another gear. There's money in armaments. There's big money if you can sell them to both sides.

When the dust settles all of what's not destroyed, wasted, superseded, not required to service a baseline defence strategy gets mothballed, scrapped, melted down, discarded.

Bernard Lovell, recognising science could be made with the scraps of war found a use for war surplus radar units. What he discovered led from a static device to a notion to point and move the thing. His notion weighed 3200 tons. Round and round, up and down 3200 tons is a lot of mass. The rotation was on rail bogies. A solution to the tilt was right there in the war machine, or at least two war machines: gun turret racks from scrapped Royal Navy ships.

The Lowell Telescope of today still runs on those war surplus racks, driven by those pinions. If only the gentle sciences' calls were answered…

self-destructive behaviour by vin dog

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too much accomplishes little

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

The first article title on the page is the name of your band.

2. www.quotationspage.com/random.php3

The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.

3. www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/

The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

link to original: flickr.com/photos/31747118@N08/3287611673/in/set-72157613...

DJ Danny by Scarlet

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Uncle Danny Destructive DJing at KYMATIK

Visit this location at KYMATIK Open Stage for Experimental Electronic Music. in Second Life

The family of Risso spends it's last minutes together before being destroyed by the killers - Taiji, Japan by Auksinis Kardas

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February 8, 2016 - Risso Dolphins Slaughter – at Taiji, Japan

Another destructive and devastating day in Taiji for innocent Dolphins migrating past the coast. Killers show again their greed and bloodlust as they find and drive a pod of Risso to the infamous Cove.

At sunrise all 12 killing vessels left Taiji harbor to hunt for Dolphins. Just after 7am, Japan local time, Cove Guardians spotted 2 hunting vessels circling 3-4 miles outside the coast. Minutes later, more killing vessels joined in and formed a drive. At 7:30am, 8 of the banger boats started to drive a pod of Risso Dolphins towards the Cove. Killers fiercly drove the pod to the Cove and quickly netted the pod. The killers wasted no time and drove a majority of the pod under the tarps on the killing beach for slaughter. 12 members of the pod were slaughtered and their bodies taken to the butcher house. The remaining 4-6 family members were driven back out to sea. The drive out to sea for the 4-6 Risso was just as brutal as the drive in. These remaining pod members are now traumatized, weak, and searching for the rest of their family.

This was the 24th Risso family slaughtered in the Cove this season. The greed and bloodlust in Taiji is endless. The Captivity trade fuels this slaughter. If you support Captive Dolphin entertainment shows and swim with Dolphin programs, you support the slaughter in Taiji.

SAY NO TO CAPTIVITY !!!

Sites for more information :

Sea Shepherd Cove Guardians Page (official)

www.facebook.com/SeaShepherdCoveGuardiansOfficialPage

Cove Guardians

www.seashepherd.org/cove-guardians

Photo: Sea Shepherd

ISS and Progress MS-14: 5 hours before planned destructive reentry by Filipp Romanov

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Tracks of the ISS and Progress MS-14

I observed the ISS and Progress MS-14 (5 hours before planned destructive reentry) on April 28, 2021, from 19:18 to 19:20 UT in the dawn sky, from Yuzhno-Morskoy (near Nakhodka), Russia. The spacecraft looked like a +2m star and was visible at a distance of several degrees from the ISS. My time-lapse taken with camera Canon EOS 60D (5 sec. exposure time for each photo): www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRvlby5acDE

With best regards, Filipp.

Acrobasis tricolorella (Destructive Pruneworm Moth) Hodges # 5655 by Nick Dean

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Pinehurst housing development, South Everett WA USA

Mildly destructive by Pencho Deskov

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Leaving on a jet by European Space Agency

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This spectacular image shows a region called G35.2-0.7N, which is known as a hotbed of high-mass star formation. The kind of stars that form here are so massive that they will end their lives as destructive supernovae. However, even as they form they greatly impact their surroundings. At least one B-type star — the second most massive type — lurks within the region pictured here, and a powerful protostellar jet that it is launching towards us is the source of the spectacular light show. The image was taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), which is mounted on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, and the region G35.2-0.7N lies around 7200 light-years from Earth in the constellation Aquila.

This beautiful picture was assembled using data that were collected primarily for very specific research purposes, as are many of the Hubble Pictures of the Week. The research conducted using these data included measuring the extent of ionisation in the jets being blasted out of the protostar buried within G35.2-0.7N. Ionisation is a process by which atoms or molecules become charged, often because they are in such a high-energy environment that they have lost some of their electrons (the tiny negatively charged particles that orbit nuclei in atoms and molecules). Protostellar jets are enormous collimated beams of matter that are ejected from protostars. Collimated simply means that the matter is ejected in parallel (column-like) streams, which in turn means that the jets do not spread out much, but extend out very far in relatively straight lines.

The visual result of the ejected matter is the glorious display visible in this image. Much of the nebula is dark, with light being blocked from Hubble’s view by the rich dust clouds that produce these massive stars. Near the very centre can be seen the location of the star and the jet of material it is emitting. The small, bright orange streak there is a cavity in the dust carved out by the ferocity of the jet as it streams towards us. By breaking through its dusty cocoon, the jet reveals light from the protostar, but there is still so much dust that the light is “reddened” to a fiery orange. The massive protostar lies at the very lower-left tip of this cavity.

[Image Description: A nebula with stars. Dense clouds of dust and gas cover the left-hand side and a filament crosses the centre horizontally. Billowing streams of gas and dust in various colours emerge from around the centre. The very centre of the image is permeated with glowing orange regions. Many blue stars with cross-shaped spikes lie in the foreground, and small point-like stars are visible beyond the clouds.]

Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Fedriani, J. Tan; CC BY 4.0

Beautiful blooming Dogwood on Duffins trail in Discovery bay , Martin’s photographs , Ajax , Ontario , Canada , May 28. 2022 by MartinoG52

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Beautiful blooming Dogwood on Duffins trail in Discovery bay , Martin’s photographs , Ajax , Ontario , Canada , May 28. 2022

Canada Anemone

Tamarack trees

Blooming Dogwood

flowering white dead nettles

Looking down at the front end of my bicycle

Bicycle

Four days after the destructive storm of 21 May 2022

old apple trees with beautiful blossoms

old orchard on the waterfront trail of Lake Ontario

blue sky in Squires beach

May 2022

Blossoms

Flowering trees

apple trees with blossoms

old orchard on the waterfront trail

Old orchard

Trees with blossoms

vista with colourful trees ,

bulrushes

tall grasses

the large stone block walls

system to keep the Carp from entering Duffins marsh and creek system

viewed from the bridge across the marsh in Squires beach

Having a nice walk with granny in the woods

Family

Sunset

May 2022

Shrubs

Oak tree

Trees with blossoms

Trees

Stones

Reflections

Reflection

Dogwood

Orange yellow Tamarack tree

Duffins trail

blue sky

cloud cover

yellow Tamarack tree

Tamarack tree

Tamarac

American Larch tree

Beautiful Nettles and it’s flowers

Nettles

Waterfront trail on Lake Ontario

Waterfront trail of Lake Ontario

Black eye Susan’s

Colourful bird houses

Autumn

Shadows

Reflections

Garter snake

Large mushroom

Bird houses

Autumn

Duffins creek

Discovery bay

cropped photograph

closeup photograph

Martin’s photographs

Ajax

Ontario

Canada

Duffins creek

Favourites

IPhone XR

Mushroom

Large Mushroom

wildflowers

Trout lilies

Lake Ontario

Mouth of Duffins creek marsh

white Deadnetles

River

Dogwood

Woods

Granny

Favourites

White Trilliums

Duffins marsh

Duffins trail

Ferns

Trilliums

Large tree

STOIC by KENNETH BARKER

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Stoicism (Greek Στοά) was a school of Hellenistic philosophy founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in the early 3rd century BC. The Stoics considered destructive emotions to be the result of errors in judgment, and that a sage, or person of "moral and intellectual perfection," would not suffer such emotions. Stoics were concerned with the active relationship between cosmic determinism and human freedom, and the belief that it is virtuous to maintain a will (called prohairesis) that is in accord with nature. Because of this, the Stoics presented their philosophy as a way of life, and they thought that the best indication of an individual's philosophy was not what a person said but how he behaved. Later Stoics, such as Seneca and Epictetus, emphasized that because "virtue is sufficient for happiness," a sage was immune to misfortune. This belief is similar to the meaning of the phrase 'stoic calm', though the phrase does not include the "radical ethical" Stoic views that only a sage can be considered truly free, and that all moral corruptions are equally vicious.

Stoic doctrine was a popular and durable philosophy, with a following throughout Greece and the Roman Empire, from its founding until the closing of all philosophy schools in 529 AD by order of the Emperor Justinian I, who perceived their pagan character to be at odds with the Christian faith.

The Stoics provided a unified account of the world, consisting of formal logic, non-dualistic physics and naturalistic ethics. Of these, they emphasized ethics as the main focus of human knowledge, though their logical theories were to be of more interest for many later philosophers.

Stoicism teaches the development of self-control and fortitude as a means of overcoming destructive emotions; the philosophy holds that becoming a clear and unbiased thinker allows one to understand the universal reason (logos). A primary aspect of Stoicism involves improving the individual’s ethical and moral well-being: "Virtue consists in a will which is in agreement with Nature."[This principle also applies to the realm of interpersonal relationships; "to be free from anger, envy, and jealousy," and to accept even slaves as "equals of other men, because all alike are sons of God."

The Stoic ethic espouses a deterministic perspective; in regards to those who lack Stoic virtue, Cleanthes once opined that the wicked man is "like a dog tied to a cart, and compelled to go wherever it goes." A Stoic of virtue, by contrast, would amend his will to suit the world and remain, in the words of Epictetus, "sick and yet happy, in peril and yet happy, dying and yet happy, in exile and happy, in disgrace and happy," thus positing a "completely autonomous" individual will, and at the same time a universe that is "a rigidly deterministic single whole."

Stoicism became the foremost popular philosophy among the educated elite in the Hellenistic world and the Roman Empire, to the point where, in the words of Gilbert Murray "nearly all the successors of Alexander [...] professed themselves Stoics."

Cedar-Apple Rust Manifestation by brucetopher

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May 4, 2016

This pretty, but destructive fungus just manifested itself on a cedar tree near our house. This is the fungus that causes "Cedar-Apple Rust" on apple and similar ornamental fruit trees. Its spores are launched from the orange "horns" and off they go looking for an apple tree to infest. Apparently they can travel and do damage up to a mile away... probably further.

The latin name for this thing is Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae (But I would call it the "Side-Show Bob Fungus.")

Brewster, Massachusetts

Cape Cod - USA

Photo by brucetopher

No use without permission.

Please email for usage info.

my curious helper supervising the decorative process by Violette79

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sometimes destructive, but at least she's feeling all right and getting back to her normal funny self after the surgery yesterday; I love my funny destructive little monster!

Beautiful shadows on the ground , tree roots and Trilliums in the woods at Duffins trail in Discovery bay , Martin’s photographs , Ajax , Ontario , Canada , May 11. 2022 by MartinoG52

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Beautiful shadows on the ground , tree roots and Trilliums in the woods at Duffins trail in Discovery bay , Martin’s photographs , Ajax , Ontario , Canada , May 11. 2022

Hog weed

Weeds

Purple wildflowers

Coltsfoot wildflowers

Comfrey herb

Mushrooms on a tree

Closeup photograph of this wrecked old tree I found laying across Duffins trail

June 2022

Looking down at the front end of my bicycle

Bicycle

Hours after the destructive storm of 21 May 2022

old apple trees with beautiful blossoms

old orchard on the waterfront trail of Lake Ontario

blue sky in Squires beach

May 2022

Blossoms

Flowering trees

apple trees with blossoms

old orchard on the waterfront trail

Old orchard

Trees with blossoms

bulrushes

tall grasses

the large stone block walls

system to keep the Carp from entering Duffins marsh and creek system

viewed from the bridge across the marsh in Squires beach

Having a nice walk with granny in the woods

Family

Sunset

May 2022

Shrubs

Oak tree

Trees

Stones

Reflections

Reflection

Dogwood

Duffins trail

blue sky

cloud cover

Tamarack tree

American Larch tree

Beautiful Nettles and it’s flowers

Nettles

Black eye Susan’s

Colourful bird houses

Autumn

Shadows

Reflections

Large mushroom

Autumn

Duffins creek

Discovery bay

Martin’s photographs

Ajax

Ontario

Canada

Duffins creek

Favourites

IPhone XR

iPhone 6s

Mushroom

Large Mushroom

wildflowers

Trout lilies

Lake Ontario

Mouth of Duffins creek marsh

white Dead Nettles

Trilliums

Dogwood

Shadows

Woods

Granny

Favourites

White Trilliums

Duffins marsh

Duffins trail

Ferns

Trilliums

Large tree

Dandelions

Aftermath of Colorado’s Most Destructive Wildfire by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

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The first 911 call for the Black Forest fire came on June 11, 2013. Nine days later, firefighters had fully contained the blaze, but not before it had devastated a wooded suburb of Colorado Springs, Colorado. The fire charred more than 14,000 acres (5,700 hectares), destroying 509 homes and killing two people. The Black Forest fire was the most destructive in the state’s history, eclipsing the Waldo Canyon fire that struck another part of the Colorado Springs area in 2012.

The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on the Terra satellite acquired this view of the burn scar on June 21, 2013. Vegetation-covered land is red in the false-color image, which includes both visible and infrared light. Patches of unburned forest are bright red. Unburned grasslands are pink. The darkest gray and black areas are the most severely burned. Buildings, roads, and other developed areas appear light gray and white. The lower image, a photograph taken on June 20, shows a charred section of Black Forest.

The most severe damage occurred north of Shoup Road, but the severity varied widely by neighborhood. Cathedral Pines, for instance, escaped largely unscathed. Many residents of that neighborhood put rocks around their homes, removed vegetation and dead trees from their yards, avoided using mulch, and followed other fire prevention strategies that helped keep flames back long enough for fighters to save homes, the Denver Post reported.

One key building that escaped the flames was Edith Wolford elementary school. Though it was in the middle of an area that was severely burned, the school survived intact partly because of the large, treeless parking lot surrounding it.

Instrument:

Terra - ASTER

Read more: 1.usa.gov/14cUhIV

Credit: NASA Earth Observatory

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Hubble Finds a Black Hole Igniting Star Formation in a Dwarf Galaxy by NASA Hubble Space Telescope

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Often portrayed as destructive monsters that hold light captive, black holes take on a less villainous role in the latest research from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. A black hole at the heart of the dwarf galaxy Henize 2-10 is creating stars rather than gobbling them up. The black hole is apparently contributing to the firestorm of new star formation taking place in the galaxy. The dwarf galaxy lies 30 million light-years away, in the southern constellation Pyxis.

A decade ago this small galaxy set off debate among astronomers as to whether dwarf galaxies were home to black holes proportional to the supermassive behemoths found in the hearts of larger galaxies. This new discovery has little Henize 2-10, containing only one-tenth the number of stars found in our Milky Way, poised to play a big part in solving the mystery of where supermassive black holes came from in the first place.

"Ten years ago, as a graduate student thinking I would spend my career on star formation, I looked at the data from Henize 2-10 and everything changed," said Amy Reines, who published the first evidence for a black hole in the galaxy in 2011 and is the principal investigator on the new Hubble observations, published in the January 19 issue of Nature.

"From the beginning I knew something unusual and special was happening in Henize 2-10, and now Hubble has provided a very clear picture of the connection between the black hole and a neighboring star forming region located 230 light-years from the black hole," Reines said.

That connection is an outflow of gas stretching across space like an umbilical cord to a bright stellar nursery. The region was already home to a dense cocoon of gas when the low-velocity outflow arrived. Hubble spectroscopy shows the outflow was moving about 1 million miles per hour, slamming into the dense gas like a garden hose hitting a pile of dirt and spreading out. Newborn star clusters dot the path of the outflow's spread, their ages also calculated by Hubble.

This is the opposite effect of what's seen in larger galaxies, where material falling toward the black hole is whisked away by surrounding magnetic fields, forming blazing jets of plasma moving at close to the speed of light. Gas clouds caught in the jets' path would be heated far beyond their ability to cool back down and form stars. But with the less-massive black hole in Henize 2-10, and its gentler outflow, gas was compressed just enough to precipitate new star formation.

"At only 30 million light-years away, Henize 2-10 is close enough that Hubble was able to capture both images and spectroscopic evidence of a black hole outflow very clearly. The additional surprise was that, rather than suppressing star formation, the outflow was triggering the birth of new stars," said Zachary Schutte, Reines' graduate student and lead author of the new study.

Ever since her first discovery of distinctive radio and X-ray emissions in Henize 2-10, Reines has thought they likely came from a massive black hole, but not as supermassive as those seen in larger galaxies. Other astronomers, however, thought that the radiation was more likely being emitted by a supernova remnant, which would be a familiar occurrence in a galaxy that is rapidly pumping out massive stars that quickly explode.

"Hubble's amazing resolution clearly shows a corkscrew-like pattern in the velocities of the gas, which we can fit to the model of a precessing, or wobbling, outflow from a black hole. A supernova remnant would not have that pattern, and so it is effectively our smoking-gun proof that this is a black hole," Reines said.

Reines expects that even more research will be directed at dwarf galaxy black holes in the future, with the aim of using them as clues to the mystery of how supermassive black holes came to be in the early universe. It's a persistent puzzle for astronomers. The relationship between the mass of the galaxy and its black hole can provide clues. The black hole in Henize 2-10 is around 1 million solar masses. In larger galaxies, black holes can be more than 1 billion times our Sun's mass. The more massive the host galaxy, the more massive the central black hole.

Current theories on the origin of supermassive black holes break down into three categories: 1) they formed just like smaller stellar-mass black holes, from the implosion of stars, and somehow gathered enough material to grow supermassive, 2) special conditions in the early universe allowed for the formation of supermassive stars, which collapsed to form massive black hole "seeds" right off the bat, or 3) the seeds of future supermassive black holes were born in dense star clusters, where the cluster's overall mass would have been enough to somehow create them from gravitational collapse.

So far, none of these black hole seeding theories has taken the lead. Dwarf galaxies like Henize 2-10 offer promising potential clues, because they have remained small over cosmic time, rather than undergoing the growth and mergers of large galaxies like the Milky Way. Astronomers think that dwarf galaxy black holes could serve as an analog for black holes in the early universe, when they were just beginning to form and grow.

"The era of the first black holes is not something that we have been able to see, so it really has become the big question: where did they come from? Dwarf galaxies may retain some memory of the black hole seeding scenario that has otherwise been lost to time and space," Reines said.

The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and ESA (European Space Agency). NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy in Washington, D.C.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Zachary Schutte (XGI), Amy Reines (XGI); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

For more information: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/hubble-finds-a-black-ho...

More then a week after the devastating storm damage of 21 May. 2022 the cut up remains of this old tree on Duffins trail with a cloudy blue sky in Discovery bay , Martin’s photographs , Ajax , Ontario , Canada , June 1. 2022 by MartinoG52

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More then a week after the devastating storm damage of 21 May. 2022 the cut up remains of this old tree on Duffins trail with a cloudy blue sky in Discovery bay , Martin’s photographs , Ajax , Ontario , Canada , June 1. 2022

Cut up tree

More then a week after the devastating storm damage of 21 May. 2022

the cut up remains of this old tree on Duffins trail

June 2022

Looking down at the front end of my bicycle

Bicycle

Four days after the destructive storm of 21 May 2022

old apple trees with beautiful blossoms

old orchard on the waterfront trail of Lake Ontario

blue sky in Squires beach

May 2022

Blossoms

Flowering trees

apple trees with blossoms

old orchard on the waterfront trail

Old orchard

Trees with blossoms

vista with colourful trees ,

bulrushes

tall grasses

the large stone block walls

system to keep the Carp from entering Duffins marsh and creek system

viewed from the bridge across the marsh in Squires beach

Having a nice walk with granny in the woods

Family

Sunset

May 2022

Shrubs

Oak tree

Trees

Stones

Reflections

Reflection

Dogwood

Orange yellow Tamarack tree

Duffins trail

blue sky

cloud cover

yellow Tamarack tree

Tamarack tree

Tamarac

American Larch tree

Beautiful Nettles and it’s flowers

Nettles

Waterfront trail on Lake Ontario

Waterfront trail of Lake Ontario

Shadows

Reflections

Large mushroom

Bird houses

Autumn

Duffins creek

Discovery bay

cropped photograph

closeup photograph

Martin’s photographs

Ajax

Ontario

Canada

Duffins creek

Favourites

IPhone XR

Mushroom

Large Mushroom

wildflowers

Trout lilies

Lake Ontario

Mouth of Duffins creek marsh

white Deadnetles

River

Dogwood

Woods

Granny

Favourites

White Trilliums

Duffins marsh

Duffins trail

Ferns

Trilliums

Large tree

Weeds

Malevolence and Transition After Death - An Animist Perspective by Daniel Arrhakis

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Malevolence and Transition After Death - An Animist Perspective by Daniel Arrhakis (2026)

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Malevolence and Transition After Death - An Animistic Perspective

The Animistic Perspective

In animism, the boundary between the living and the inanimate is understood as tenuous, as many belief systems attribute a vital or spiritual essence to people, places, animals, objects, and forces of nature. Thus, when a person considered malevolent dies, their post-mortem transition can be seen as marked by the negative energy accumulated in life.

Fixation, Attachment, and Disorientation

Fixation to places or objects: destructive spirits may remain attached to places, objects, or territories due to strong emotional attachment, desire for revenge, addictions, anger, or the symbolic density of their energy.

Disorientation after death: when life was marked by violence, suffering, or destructive actions, the spirit may be described as confused, restless, or unable to fully recognize its own condition.

Interrupted spiritual progression: This state is generally seen as transitory, depending on overcoming destructive tendencies maintained in life and the possibility of learning or pacification.

Influence on spaces, objects, and repetitive patterns

Spiritual contamination of space: Malevolence can "impregnate" the essence of a house, lake, forest, or object, making the environment hostile, heavy, or associated with the idea of haunting.

Cycles of repetition: In some traditions, the spirit does not immediately move on to another plane or to reincarnation. Instead, it relives patterns of behavior, obsessively protects a territory, or becomes a restless presence.

Objects as symbolic containers: An object linked to evil practiced in life can be seen as a point of fixation for the consciousness of the deceased, requiring rituals of cleansing, appeasement, or liberation.

Ancestral Influence and “Punishment” After Death

In many spiritualist, shamanic, and animistic traditions, it is believed that destructive, malevolent ancestors, or those who died tragically, can continue to negatively influence their descendants. This influence is not necessarily understood as eternal punishment, but as a spiritual disturbance that requires reparation, pacification, or balancing rituals.

Ancestry and Family Ties: The blood tie is understood as a lasting energetic connection, capable of affecting the health, luck, behavior, and harmony of the living.

Unbalanced Spirits: When a spirit does not evolve or does not “move on,” it can project anger, addictions, or suffering onto descendants, contributing to obsessions, conflicts, and repetition of mistakes.

Revenge or Need for Energy: Offended or restless spirits may seek revenge, ritual attention, or energy, causing misfortunes, illnesses, or family disharmony.

Repetition of patterns: influence can manifest as a “spiritual inheritance,” in which descendants repeat self-destructive behaviors or experience tragedies similar to those of their ancestors.

Since animism does not have a universal or centralized doctrine, ideas about evil and consequences after death vary widely across cultures. Generally, however, the emphasis tends to fall on balance, reparation, and protection of the living, rather than on eternal punishment similar to that of some Western theistic traditions.

Common forms of spiritual consequence

Hostile or wandering spirits: people who committed destructive acts, died violently, or were not properly pacified may become restless, vengeful, or disturbing spirits.

Restlessness as punishment: punishment is not necessarily a fiery hell, but the inability to achieve peace, rest, or integration among ancestors.

Action of nature spirits: evil committed in life can be interpreted as a disruption of balance that weakens the person and causes spiritual consequences.

Peacemaking rituals: Families and communities may perform offerings, sacrifices, or ceremonies to appease the dead and prevent them from harming the living.

Reincarnation or new form: In some views, negative actions influence rebirth or lead to a new existence marked by difficulties, learning, or purification.

Hell, eternal punishment, and the absence of a single doctrine

Animism does not present a single concept of "hell" or eternal punishment comparable to that of Abrahamic religions. Post-mortem justice is generally understood from the continuity between the living, the dead, ancestors, and nature spirits. The central problem is not eternal damnation, but the disharmony created by actions in life.

Judgment by ancestors: In some traditions, the soul encounters ancestors who evaluate its actions. The consequence may be exclusion, transitory suffering, or difficulty in spiritual integration.

Retribution in life and after death: Breaking taboos or offending local spirits can lead to illness, misfortunes, infertility, bad luck, or calamities that continue to affect the essence of the person.

Wandering spirit: someone considered evil or violently killed may not transform into a respected ancestor, remaining in a state of agitation and threat to the living.

Transformation and reintegration: death is seen as a passage. Negative actions can determine the form of return, the degree of purification needed, or the difficulty of reintegration into the spiritual community.

Ritual forgetfulness: in certain views, lack of veneration is one of the greatest punishments, as the spirit without memory, offerings, or recognition becomes weak, hungry, and isolated.

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Malevolência e Transição Após Morte - Uma Perspetiva Animista

A perspetiva animista

No animismo, a fronteira entre o vivo e o inanimado é entendida como ténue, pois muitos sistemas de crença atribuem uma essência vital ou espiritual a pessoas, lugares, animais, objetos e forças da natureza. Assim, quando uma pessoa considerada malevolente morre, a sua transição pós-morte pode ser vista como marcada pela energia negativa acumulada em vida.

Fixação, apego e desorientação

Fixação a lugares ou objetos: espíritos destruidores podem permanecer ligados a locais, objetos ou territórios devido a forte apego emocional, desejo de vingança, vícios, raiva ou à densidade simbólica da sua energia.

Desorientação após a morte: quando a vida foi marcada por violência, sofrimento ou ações destrutivas, o espírito pode ser descrito como confuso, inquieto ou incapaz de reconhecer plenamente a própria condição.

Progressão espiritual interrompida: esse estado é geralmente visto como transitório, dependendo da superação das tendências destrutivas mantidas em vida e da possibilidade de aprendizagem ou pacificação.

Influência sobre espaços, objetos e ciclos de repetição

Contaminação espiritual do espaço: a malevolência pode “impregnar” a essência de uma casa, lago, floresta ou objeto, tornando o ambiente hostil, pesado ou associado à ideia de assombração.

Ciclos de repetição: em algumas tradições, o espírito não segue imediatamente para outro plano nem para a reencarnação. Em vez disso, revive padrões de comportamento, protege obsessivamente um território ou torna-se uma presença inquieta.

Objetos como recipientes simbólicos: um objeto ligado à maldade praticada em vida pode ser visto como ponto de fixação da consciência do morto, exigindo rituais de limpeza, apaziguamento ou libertação.

Influência dos antepassados e “castigo” após a morte

Em muitas tradições espiritualistas, xamânicas e animistas, acredita-se que antepassados destruidores, malevolentes ou mortos de forma trágica podem continuar a influenciar negativamente os descendentes. Essa influência não é necessariamente entendida como um castigo eterno, mas como uma perturbação espiritual que exige reparação, pacificação ou rituais de equilíbrio.

Ancestralidade e laços familiares: o vínculo de sangue é entendido como uma ligação energética duradoura, capaz de afetar a saúde, a sorte, o comportamento e a harmonia dos vivos.

Espíritos desequilibrados: quando um espírito não evolui ou não “segue em frente”, pode projetar raiva, vícios ou sofrimento sobre os descendentes, contribuindo para obsessões, conflitos e repetição de erros.

Vingança ou necessidade de energia: espíritos ofendidos ou inquietos podem procurar vingança, atenção ritual ou energia, provocando infortúnios, doenças ou desarmonia familiar.

Repetição de padrões: a influência pode surgir como uma “herança espiritual”, na qual os descendentes repetem comportamentos autodestrutivos ou vivem tragédias semelhantes às dos antepassados.

Como o animismo não possui uma doutrina universal ou centralizada, as ideias sobre o mal e as consequências após a morte variam amplamente entre culturas. Em termos gerais, porém, a ênfase costuma recair no equilíbrio, na reparação e na proteção dos vivos, mais do que numa punição eterna semelhante à de algumas tradições teístas ocidentais.

Formas comuns de consequência espiritual

Espíritos hostis ou vagueantes: pessoas que cometeram atos destrutivos, morreram de forma violenta ou não foram devidamente pacificadas podem tornar-se espíritos inquietos, vingativos ou perturbadores.

Inquietação como punição: o castigo não é necessariamente um inferno de fogo, mas a incapacidade de alcançar paz, descanso ou integração entre os ancestrais.

Ação dos espíritos da natureza: o mal cometido em vida pode ser interpretado como uma quebra de equilíbrio que enfraquece a pessoa e provoca consequências espirituais.

Rituais de pacificação: famílias e comunidades podem realizar oferendas, sacrifícios ou cerimónias para apaziguar o morto e impedir que prejudique os vivos.

Reencarnação ou nova forma: em algumas visões, ações negativas influenciam o renascimento ou conduzem a uma nova existência marcada por dificuldades, aprendizagem ou purificação.

Inferno, castigo eterno e ausência de doutrina única

O animismo não apresenta um conceito único de “inferno” ou de castigo eterno comparável ao das religiões abraâmicas. A justiça pós-morte é geralmente compreendida a partir da continuidade entre vivos, mortos, ancestrais e espíritos da natureza. O problema central não é a condenação eterna, mas a desarmonia criada pelas ações em vida.

Julgamento pelos ancestrais: em algumas tradições, a alma encontra os antepassados, que avaliam as suas ações. A consequência pode ser exclusão, sofrimento transitório ou dificuldade de integração espiritual.

Retribuição em vida e após a morte: quebrar tabus ou ofender espíritos locais pode gerar doenças, infertilidade, azar ou infortúnios que continuam a afetar a essência da pessoa.

Espírito errante: alguém considerado mau ou morto de forma violenta pode não se transformar num ancestral respeitado, permanecendo num estado de agitação e ameaça para os vivos.

Transformação e reintegração: a morte é vista como passagem. Ações negativas podem determinar a forma de retorno, o grau de purificação necessário ou a dificuldade de reintegração na comunidade espiritual.

Esquecimento ritual: em certas visões, a falta de veneração é uma das maiores punições, pois o espírito sem memória, oferendas ou reconhecimento torna-se fraco, faminto e isolado.

Transfer of bodies has begun - Taiji, Japan by Auksinis Kardas

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February 8, 2016 - Risso Dolphins Slaughter – at Taiji, Japan

Another destructive and devastating day in Taiji for innocent Dolphins migrating past the coast. Killers show again their greed and bloodlust as they find and drive a pod of Risso to the infamous Cove.

At sunrise all 12 killing vessels left Taiji harbor to hunt for Dolphins. Just after 7am, Japan local time, Cove Guardians spotted 2 hunting vessels circling 3-4 miles outside the coast. Minutes later, more killing vessels joined in and formed a drive. At 7:30am, 8 of the banger boats started to drive a pod of Risso Dolphins towards the Cove. Killers fiercly drove the pod to the Cove and quickly netted the pod. The killers wasted no time and drove a majority of the pod under the tarps on the killing beach for slaughter. 12 members of the pod were slaughtered and their bodies taken to the butcher house. The remaining 4-6 family members were driven back out to sea. The drive out to sea for the 4-6 Risso was just as brutal as the drive in. These remaining pod members are now traumatized, weak, and searching for the rest of their family.

This was the 24th Risso family slaughtered in the Cove this season. The greed and bloodlust in Taiji is endless. The Captivity trade fuels this slaughter. If you support Captive Dolphin entertainment shows and swim with Dolphin programs, you support the slaughter in Taiji.

SAY NO TO CAPTIVITY !!!

Sites for more information :

Sea Shepherd Cove Guardians Page (official)

www.facebook.com/SeaShepherdCoveGuardiansOfficialPage

Cove Guardians

www.seashepherd.org/cove-guardians

Photo: Sea Shepherd

Destructive Pholiota by Andy King

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5 month old Lilly, being held back from chewing on my nails by Rhonda Madden

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Cute and very destructive wee dog..

Sea Lion Star by Nick Polanszky

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California Sea Lions in their younger years, become a little destructive around the reef of Los Islotes, La Paz, Mexico. In one of the dark archways of the island, the Sea Lions will rip up starfish, coral, nudibranch or whatever they can get their teeth onto. Swimming back to the surface they will then drop it and let it fall back down, quickly swimming down to catch it before it lands

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Acrobasis tricolorella (Destructive Pruneworm Moth) - Hodges # 5655 - Everett WA USA by Nick Dean

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Pinehurst housing development, South Everett WA USA

Destructive Airport Fire Rages in Southern California by Kelvinkccheng

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The Airport Fire is an active wildfire that started on September 9, 2024 near Trabuco Canyon and exploded to over 22,000 acres within two days. The fire forced thousands to evacuate and threatened critical infrastructure in Santiago Peak. The fire spread over the canyon towards Ortega Highway and destroyed homes near Lake Elsinore. Gavin Newsom declared a State of Emergency due to three major wildfires in Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Orange, and Riverside County. It is currently at 23,412 acres and 5% containment at the time of writing.

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🎧 microscopic meditations offered for heart and heart's ease, after listening to morning blessings of Mahant Swami Maharaj in his divine presence in Mumbai on 23 February 2023:

to see right there in the palm of your hand, a place where consciousness & the subliminal gather in hands cupped like a bowl; to go into the forest with this bowl, where silence and beauty are the deepest; and that’s when the magic happens...

phone isn’t

the same string

from person to

person now

that we carry

them and

have no homes

eileen myles

when you 'get it,' the language is heart's ease - beautiful, connected, resonant; and when you don’t, it can be frustrating to ramble about an isolating experience.{} honesty is a sine qua non to this reflection process...all I want is to be opened.

Meditation 1: painful intimacy - emotional openness ...which stems from startled silence of emotion; emotion never dodged, only the details. an intimacy which is not destructive, on the contrary, it becomes constructive to discover through the fogs of silence, the secret of the wounds. an innocent intimacy as you meditate like writing a letter to a close friend, confiding the innermost and intimate nature of that kind of conversation:

between two infinities, when one can never spin fast enough to catch a glimpse of the spinning world; zoom in - a pas de loup. body-edged journey squaring the circle; where openness is not charted - soul-flow is getting missed; and so the next second brings storm-clouds ☁ over the head; unguarded position found. le séjour. it brings in triple waves - of emptiness, of hurried emotions (signs of dizziness you don't know) and of deeply unfathomable feelings (when light and darkness is felt closer than ever); feeling cold to take the next step in the shivering rain that never stops, one further feels the subtle clouds looming over a larger distance as far as you can see, to bring in muted moments of indecision. terra incognita - the map of every place in the mind of 'jonathan livingston storm gull'; wherein to find the path means to lose the peace. a silver lining gains a place of esteem in the head-cloud, “we don't patch up and piece together the time spent with illusions.”

"I tie my handkerchief

to a kite

to try and dry

the cries of

the clouds up there.

Pour, pour:

oh, if only

I hadn’t loaned

my umbrella

to that submarine!"

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playing the royal game in circles, 'put the blame on', each and every day, the paper airplanes fly inside through the window; the newspaper has been crying another day older denying any liability in non-fulfillment to worth of life; the auto-triggered paralyzing thoughts of a messy heart slowly finds the status quo - the chaos reigns as reprehensible acts gain momentum and then it will no longer be possible to stave off utter misery; pollen's hardened outer coating, the honey bees cleave the grains at a vulnerable point. a moth-like attraction to the mental processes full of waves of frivolity, that will cost the moth everything; recklessness always turns out to be expensive, yet the mind clothed in rags remains obdurate as it cannot let go the sub-stratum of such images which spring to the impromptu mind who dreams to robe ornate clothing; images which are result of attraction of cohesion to the highest beauty which a flesh-mental-ego self would love to marry. the dense calendar flows like water bursting out through your hands and yet the empty thirst never quenched; and when you really wake up, the corrosive paper airplane has been compelled to form a slowly moving boat of ineptitude, asking you to drink your own tears. with bonds damaged, tissue paper in water, coming apart from a sailing quality. inundated areas of thinking start to project the weakness on others. same emotion tumbling around in your head, amorphous but forming. evaporating as the years pass by and the brooding clouds keep crying. even when the skies clear, there is a constellation of grief around and there is no clearing of deceit-less path to find a way out of the shame, dread, debt, doubt and sadness. lurching between soaring high waves and agonizing lows waves, how can one sail in the ruling tides of haunted past, wistful present, and the disorienting future? simply unmoored, breasting the surging tide, the turbulent seas...

heart does the assignment

underlines the words

after mind erases them

the emotion has its own tide coming in

a blank page is a mirror

has the line that won't go away

being aware of the deceptive circles in which you move. ripples... as in the mirror, every little bad dream is preening to be remembered; also a reflection of hangover after past that adumbrates the future and so the mind is churned over again to seek relief-joy; a melting point [IIΙ] for wisdom followed by series of griefs, each compounding the last one. the count never ends; but this creates a immobilizing language of circumstances and sad database, which infiltrates the joy of gratitude and the defense of it.

"every problem has a solution. the problem is to find the solution to the problem." — pierre filion

irredeemably till how long will you will you continue to define yourself but not refine yourself into aligned understanding? restructuring of the self and reality needs to see the essence - 'the soul can always evolve.' backfired, in measuring the positive parts of life, the numbered days of the passing life does not paint the whole picture; and yet they start becoming a Lazy Sunday - each day. and so finding satisfaction in moments of stark relief, punctured in these wasted days, a recluse does not think beyond the merry-go-round of the numbered whole.

"Books were to her not an end in themselves but a substitute for living. She raced through folios because she was forbidden to scamper on the grass." Virginia Woolf on Aurora Leigh

so much information to be deposited elsewhere keeps coming at you and very little manages to stick and make you think better. things can move better and be possible, only when you are in a state of grace, when deep channels are open throughout; deeply stirred balance maintained. but ignorance can quickly hold us as whole, at most of the times, like no knowing can; because in this shelled ignorance lies body-edged joy brought in quickly, not even giving a fortnight of chance to the story of patience - that which can ripen as the joy of an enduring kind - a story about river meeting it's sea. instead our story becomes like sea channels that needs regular dredging to stay open and that cannot happen by staying shrouded in mystery.

futzing around ever since,

a story about story-lessness,

or to become of worthlessness

or ideas left to stew in

vat of pulpy esoteric stew.

again, a fear to lose the face,

in those staircase encounters,

where unsettled ghosts linger.

formlessness of the darkness

living an austere life, existence

you hardly even acknowledge

eyes of others; felt ambivalence

as time passes distance grows

leaves a couple of points undefined.

until you really stop to examine
the progression and coherence,
the dreary analytical lines can spin
into excess; inhibiting the soul-work.
an afterthought to character development
wasn’t really addressing any

of the questions that really drew me,

a muffled voice says within & still mumbling

lines follow shifts in the thoughts and feelings

with no break in the texture and flow

homogeneous passages maddeningly ambiguous

dense & abstract aesthetic, return to form

emotionlessly transposing world into word.

to make the thought sound more deep than it is.

looking to address such battles
of the negligible music; with a narrative
from the timbre of his voice
every story wants every vile human impulse
to be transformed through care; and,
in case you forget who i am, do not
forget the common ground, just plowed
grief isn’t fresh but it’s ongoing
confounds but deepen us
the glimmers of hope deep inside you
grateful, not hateful.

enter the harvest time

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"most of our problems proceed from our inability

to sit quietly in a small room." — pascal.

solving one problem by creating other problems is not the way to do things... don't you see?

feeling discouraged as well as judgmental, how much overwhelming information would be flitting around the mind? still the plans for the road ahead were always ditched for the earliest fixations of the mind - a way to grapple with un-grappable feelings as well as tendency to crumble in pressure situations. with nothing at stake, the relief-joy moments are delineated'; merry - no - round, there is an unseen hole in this illusory sense of whole and unable to deal with the painful and prosaic realities of life. the relief-wisdom, if at all gained in the process, may never get beyond just being good - becoming a lengthy as well as single monotonous line without a melody.

“I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.” ― Sylvia Plath

“Growth in painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.”

in such a state of inconsequential affairs, when one's heart is fettered with memories and when one's heart does not really get moved, the strident hinged door opens up certain promising techniques of the times. the cross is, basically, that the portrait of the soul loses many wholes with frontal light of such techniques. such techniques like mindfulness to the present moment and other quick-fix ways will never fill the void within nor answer a lot of questions about 'right affection'. continuing our discordant chorus, the fulfillment of heart never really happens as one switches between the light and dark moments without much rhyme or reason. after a peak of body-edged joy trying to fill the bottomless ego, there is a rapidly decreasing taste of enjoyment as the senses are blunted to some extent. momentarily stumped and yet to forget the queasy feelings and as an act of coping mechanism, one is pulled in to that same cycle of relief-joy and then feeling rather stung by the pleasure. if it was treasured time, why that became a trash time? why you grew more and more despondent? why ashamed to see what you leave in your wake? inured to stress, as if the side-lined efforts were for nought - the factor by which nothing will multiply and fickleness of eyes never saturated; now, never eager to receive the grace of the Purest who can enlighten the earnest eyes.

"a shrug says sorry" and you stay near but elsewhere; and you delude yourself to exist trouble-free in same plane of thoughts but not able to see how the grace can end the suffering created by struggle between truth consciousness and unconsciousness of peace-making pathways. in over-trying to do things in own mind's dominant reaction to difficult situations, you forget to establish the rhythm formed in the pathway charted through fortitude, and a graceful rhythm as being greatly reflected in the Purest Heart.

everything the heart needed appears in that moment of belonging to the Heart breathing the truth of devotion, and then recedes as the delusion in own mind also intensifies when crisscrossing the landscapes of momentary belonging is a journey to pass into days of dust. near to the wild heart, with this mindset of giving all-or-nothing and letting time slip in rolls-royce ecstasy, till when can one wait to have the courage for surrendering to the compassionate Truth? and travel through gates of vulnerability before the scorpion tells the truth? is it that when eyes ache, then only it can be seen that the self which resisted baring is going to fail? shouldn't the methods of living life as learned behavior of unawareness and unwanted urges, expose the hollowness in one or another area, till the collective trauma of the profound personal loss is not addressed by going to the source? to see what blesses and sustains us at the source level. it is definitely some grace received to find that inner alignment and rhythm and then asking the right questions.

"Days pass when I forget the mystery." — Denise Levertov

steeped in comfort, till when can you continue to secure a favorable or transcendent narrative to camouflage unscrupulous deeds? isn't it too taxing to maintain our pretenses with the ugly tedium of explanatory justifications? of commanding cerebral experiences? of disparaging cliches? when will you stop the inflationary use of the compensatory and positive words that are not a stitch in time to save nine? don't you see that these words of suffocating clarity trickle down and gets stuck in your heart like a thorn? when will that understanding happen to see - why you've been protecting yourself, wearing a hat always in style, instead of wholeheartedly working on protecting the truth? don't you know that only the pencil will support your weight without leaving an indelible scar? how will you navigate your own self-doubts and misgivings? are you really interrogating the nature of your fears or just becoming more weaker with the fear of questions? will not, adding here of one more thing, to the list of interfering questions, create more disconnection and disorientation and cast doubt across decades; or are these questions stepping in stones to meet the hurtful part of self? to see how deterioration started by collusion with this gradual process of enticement. how long will you entertain false-hearted guests to your thought process? don't you see that every little comment from them just chips away at your confidence.

ventriloquizing of a voice dreaded throughout from an ingrained identity but not from purity of a soul? forced to question when you are ruing the lost time? are these self-obsessed questions another form of resistance - a daily resistance to death (or reluctance to let go) and an embrace of life? or are these tea-time questions, a sign of sugar full of procrastination to indefinite prolongation and beyond? a sign of inveterate tendency to overlook the course of action? can just asking more of such unconsidered questions fill your ravenous soul? soul that is increasingly being alienated from own purpose and true self. would you like when someone quizzes you about your irrecoverable unemployment? ignoring the many ways of associative knowing, life destroyed by silent-natured embarrassing relationships and obliterated by subsequent incidences of missing the deeper and subtler eye to see through such awkward involvements. can you read your personal, intimate book? incapable of deep-reading, eliminating the mystifying features of the study days; alienated and demystified from natural world and natural order to study, you only exclude learning and wonder pathways and become hardened to integrate them. unsure but hopeful, in the end, are these spiritual questions limbering up or just the magnitude of cerebral questions in which you feel cleaving of mind between intimacy and distance for the same concepts seen in limited observation of the mind shining through flashbacks of fragmentary memories; maybe, like Emily since the ancient times, cannot explain with a delicate-as-lace sentences poem:

The Lost Thought

I felt a cleaving in my mind
As if my brain had split;
I tried to match it, seam by seam,
But could not make them fit.

The thought behind I strove to join
Unto the thought before, ,
But sequence ravelled out of reach
Like balls upon a floor.

Emily Dickinson (can you see if Emily in you retreated further into herself or emerged out open to big change?) she saw deeply and so could also see that something was missing. unfortunately, she couldn't put her finger on what that was. She definitely did not had a cursory way of looking at grief.

imprisoned within the shrinking confines of a conscribed life, to read the questions straight through will further tangle the mind. and it is difficult to read these questions and "difficult" is a different thing from "incomprehensible". the ego has a false belief that everything will cohere somehow or other, because it all comes from you! to take the next right step, something always gets missed, you say with a sinking voice. a voice which asks, "does not the fragmented structure of the thought process echo your mental state? the general tenor of all but querulous...

mind to soul and soul to mind, each preaching to the choir and so the honest question was never attempted from the very beginning. only ego massage by seemingly big questions and then nothing. the honest question to ask the self mirror is - how principles once rigidly followed become fluid when it becomes expedient? the golden principles can only be truly lived, right from the start, if one is truthful in love, but not by who feigns love for selfish reasons. please do not have a convenient follow up to these questions with a band-aid to plug a deluge.

“when the sky cries, things start to bloom. so, let those tears flow. it's good for you too. all things which greatly hurt me greatly teach me. often, it’s the deepest pain which empowers you to grow into your highest self.” ~ ― karen salmonsohn

grief, I’ve learned, is really just love.

it’s all the love you want to give, but cannot.

all that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest.

grief is just love with no place to go.

jamie anderson

les nuages dans ma tête. going à travers a baffling phase in own life and impossible to act in the moment when thinking diverges into abstractness, it takes extraordinary acts of metamorphosis by fostering qualities of courage and engagement in shaking the self, to get the self looking through after the initial breakthrough - a look for cathartic value in the continuum of life in everyday and of pathways that create better connection to your intermediate stages in journey; bridging through metaphors and similes and the grateful connection to grand continuum. in this act of listening in care, what does being fully present to the moment mean? it is when one brings parts of self together (who had been put up with each other and so had not communicated with each other for long), so that they listen to each other. worth the pain, "i feel so gutted" for the gain of affection; it is then, when one begins to heal and find how the pain hurts so less than subdued grief of regret; and then you listen to your true source in pursuit of the sublime.

did you see this as a fallow period which is now copiously bestowed with the ripening is because of trust of 'Eterna-Oski' who is so steadfast and believing? Tears...

looking into the sea of your eyes, tears broke through me, through my fears, the way frozen river break open after the arrival of spring. once you find your breakthrough moment, rivers of yearning, rivers of reaching... comes through

it is this continuum wholeness where clouds become witness to a graceful sight – leaf joyfully breathes the wind —

looking into the eyes of love in the clouds, what is seen, is a beautiful journey of training as an apprentice with alertness and dedication, to achieve the continuum of consciousness, that is observing – with equanimity and not living from behind the positioned ego, that creates barriers to being fully present.

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Meditation 2: returning with wonder. the pitch and purpose of this peaceful reflection is 'spiritual openness' as a source of clarity and compassion, about how we love.

"But to say, I know—is there any touch in it?

To be there; to listen; not invade. Another solitude ..."

— Jean Valentine

being fully present in the moment is never about being in middle of nowhere. meaning of a word is its use in the language coming from the Heart. shapes of preciousness. ton histoire commence par un voyage. must press on for one last battle, gentle warrior of mine, revisiting the arc - not just a point we’ve arrived at but a direction of travel:

of truly "seeing" where you belong, the vantage point offered, beyond being an oddball; this seeing in essence, becomes a simple yet generative story of mine, of finding a closure - closure to body-edged drifting of self, along the great tendencies of 'nakara' self who always craved to get the crumbs of fairy-tale joy; such an urge, felt by the untested self; felt without stronger feelings due to heartstrings stretched in every direction in the fleeting moments. interplay of disorder and order as day and night follows in a worn world. steering the strong waves with own mind as rudder, between all the competing voices pulling us here, pushing us there, this vantage point of life offering a steady beacon of light by which you can navigate to your authentic self and devote truly in love.

a small bowl

in my hands like the nest

/- joseph fasano

lumière divine sur toi, this vantage point of life - an attachment formed via wonder of the soul to love the dweller inside the inner garden, two doors away and the shrine eight outer barriers away; bringing the purest and golden transformation of self. la caresse, a guide and a gift, an invitation at the same time into yourself and beyond yourself; whispering woods - this secret, no longer held between shadow and light present in every vanishing page of life. everything unfolds from the center with no boundaries of affection.

once a true love is recognized, it takes tremendous courage to make a connection with right affection and completely trust your journey to it, with it. beauty of love that is challenging and comforting at the same time - expanding thoughts to meaning, healing, order, respect, rhythm and timeless calm. compassion you have for those of us who "try" earnestly, humbly and transparently. very taken by this innocence of friendship at its most glorious and by nourishing care, to be lost in contemplation in the grateful wonder of this garden .. following the great footsteps, this homecoming filling the void of the soul at the feelings level, relevant and true - of experiencing 'Eterna Tenderness' of Purest Hearts.

a thought under my pillow, glowing in the morning's dark

now all the efforts surf on 'finesse et légèreté'/fineness & lightness. performing the poetry of such tenderness together, of nurturing one another, a great joy comes when we re-imagine our world together united as one. nourished wisdom that plants seeds of Tenderness... of beauty and light. the more generously we love, the more blessed we lead our lives and get to flourish. compelling honesty cast like dandelions upon the air of thoughts; with such ease, and such care that only true friendship can do. companionship thought buds toward devotion, blossoming with tender honesty and deeper truths.

Dear Heart, do not be stymied by what you consider as mistakes. keep growing in our joy of togetherness.

when i'm not thinking about anything else, that’s joy forever. heart is no longer vacant of dreams; yet, never a wish for something more, now, every dream i have, transcends me to same garden of the Heart where I see the Form behind the light. one stays amazed in this magical dream so truthful, and from that moment, the time was enfolded in the act of being fully present to unfold the bundles of conversational joy with a steadfast companion; and now the earthly glow responds with saintliness to blossom the flowers of peace for one and all - a wish, highest of all.

Unprecedented X-ray View of Supernova Remains (NASA, Chandra, 09/10/14) by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

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The destructive results of a powerful supernova explosion reveal themselves in a delicate tapestry of X-ray light, as seen in this image from NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton.

The image shows the remains of a supernova that would have been witnessed on Earth about 3,700 years ago. The remnant is called Puppis A, and is around 7,000 light years away and about 10 light years across. This image provides the most complete and detailed X-ray view of Puppis A ever obtained, made by combining a mosaic of different Chandra and XMM-Newton observations. Low-energy X-rays are shown in red, medium-energy X-rays are in green and high energy X-rays are colored blue.

These observations act as a probe of the gas surrounding Puppis A, known as the interstellar medium. The complex appearance of the remnant shows that Puppis A is expanding into an interstellar medium that probably has a knotty structure.

Supernova explosions forge the heavy elements that can provide the raw material from which future generations of stars and planets will form. Studying how supernova remnants expand into the galaxy and interact with other material provides critical clues into our own origins.

A paper describing these results was published in the July 2013 issue of Astronomy and Astrophysics and is available online. The first author is Gloria Dubner from the Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio in Buenos Aires in Argentina.

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