July 2010
10 posts
“When we try to examine the mirror in itself we eventually detect nothing but the...”
– Nietzsche (via metaconscious)
“It was true that I didn’t have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for...”
– Charles Bukowski, Factotum, Black Sparrow Press, 1975 (via commondense) (via yourwonderingmind)
Word.
As Above, So Below: The Denial of Death →
Whatever we deny in our conscious minds will possess us. Not to face the ways we all traffic in death is to cling to innocence—which is, essentially, an Ego-oriented position—and deny Soul. And it is also to be the unconscious and unwitting agent of what we deny. We are often possessed by death…
the origins of Positive thought →
One of the most fruitless questions that can be asked of religions is whether or not they are “true”. For the sake of argument and the flow of this article, let us simply assume from the start that they aren’t true in the supernatural sense. For a certain kind of atheist, this is the end of the story; but for those of a more ethnographic bent, it is clearly only a beginning....
Faith and Belief
Faith is something very different from belief. Belief is the systematic taking of unanalyzed words much too seriously. Paul’s words, Mohammed’s words, Marx’s words, Hitler’s words—-people take them too seriously, and what happens? What happens is the senseless ambivalence of history—-sadism versus duty, or (incomparably worse) sadism as duty; devotion counterbalanced by organized paranoia; sisters...
June 2010
6 posts
Attar's Seven Valleys of Love in the Manteq...
The birds of the world set forth in search of their king, Simurgh.
Their quest takes them through seven valleys in the first of which a hundred difficulties assail them. They undergo many trials as they try to free themselves of what is precious to them and change their state.
Once successful and filled with longing, they ask for wine to dull the effects of dogma, belief, and unbelief on their...
Alchemia →
A puzzle-game, light and surreal.
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy; I awoke and saw that life was service; I...”
– anonymous Bengali poet (via besaged)
May 2010
8 posts
“I can understand your aversion to the use of the term ‘religion’ to describe an...”
– Albert Einstein (via tidesofmind)
“A fully functioning human ought to be able to be aware of his or her reality...”
– Robert Anton Wilson
Anthropology of Magic
“…she offers the proposal that magic is an aspect of human consciousness – in particular, magical consciousness:
…a mythopoetic, expanded aspect of awareness that can potentially be experienced by everyone; it is expressed in myriad varying situations and contexts, and it informs both the shaping of cosmological realities and individual behavior as well as social structures …...
“What happens during the unspoken dialogue between two people can never be...”
– Dag Hammarskold (via besaged)
“…For it is always the stronger (or smarter) one who is to blame. We lack...”
– Markings by Dag Hammarskold
“We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.”
– Anais Nin (via besaged)
“You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a...”
– Al Capone
April 2010
11 posts
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Moon Worship →
The Assyrians and the Chaldeans referred to the time of the Moon-god as the oldest period in the memory of the people: before other planetary gods came to dominate the world ages, the Moon was the supreme deity.
During the Age of Taurus, humanity lived, without verbal language (and thus consciousness as we know it), in a matriarchal society ruled by “magicians.” My intuition...
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“Hierogamy (Greek ιερός γάμος, ιερογαμία “holy marriage”) refers to marriage...”
– Hieros Gamos
In-between Mantavaras
“Our critique began as all critiques begin: with doubt. Doubt became our narrative. Ours was a quest for a new story, our own. And we grasp toward this new history driven by the suspicion… that ordinary language couldn’t tell it. Our past appeared frozen in the distance, and our every gesture and accent… signified the negation of the old world and the reach for a new one. The way we lived created...
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“We don’t have ideology; we don’t have theology; we dance.”
– Shinto monk, to Joseph Campbell
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30 Rules for Mindful Leaders
1. Take time to meditate, reflect, and study. 2. Cultivate a household that appreciates the training of a mindful leader. 3. Create moments of silence: retreat to be alone on occasion. 4. Contemplate the impermanent nature of wealth and career. 5. Show respect to those who teach you how to become a mindful leader. 6. On occasion, meditate and study with others who aspire to...
Dance Manifesto, circa 1995
We were first drawn by the sound. From far away, the hunderous, muffled, echoing beat was comparable to a mother’s heart soothing a child in her womb of concrete, steel, and electrical wiring. We were drawn back into this womb, and there, in the heat, dampness, and darkness of it, we came to accept that we are all equal. Not only to the darkness, and to ourselves, but to the very music...
Heroic Archetypes
Joseph Campbell, in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, identified both the archetype of the Hero and the quest that the hero follows, in many of the folk tales and myths of the world. Carol Pearson, in Awakening The Heroes Within expands the idea of the Hero into twelve distinct archetypes, each of which can follow the Hero Quest.
These heroic archetypes and the stages of each archetype’s ...
“Upon My Conditions.” To live under that sign is to purchase knowledge...”
– Dag Hammarskjold
March 2010
12 posts
“I never even said this quotation, but put my name after it and it seems...”
– Oscar Wilde (via americansatori)
“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via clothedinsky)
“The beta state (14-21 cycles a second) aligns us to the conformity of tick-tock,...”
– Stuart Wilde, The Art of Meditation
“They have a sharp ear for one tune only, the one which belongs to the God by...”
– Plato, describing how Maenads find their dance
“The solve et coagula of existence. Positive and Negative.
The positive is the...”
– Peter J. Carroll, Liber Null (via quantumpossibility)
“If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.”
– Maya Angelou
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“Where are you living?
What are you doing?
What are your relationships?
Are...”
– anonymous Hopi
“My father once told me the following: ‘Yes she is extremely pretty son,...”
– Comment on a DJ blog
“Of course, the movements have meanings behind them. If we were sure of the...”
– -Dorothy Bryant (The Kin of Ata are Waiting For You)
(via rebirth-through-adaptation)
(via clothedinsky)
February 2010
1 post
“The “Three-tongued flame” that never dies is the immortal spiritual...”
– The Secret Doctrine, I, 237
January 2010
13 posts
