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18 Oct 2004 @ 11:45, by swanny. Spirituality
"9/11 as metaphor"
10-18-04, 04:41 am (PDT)
There is a term in film making which I can't seem to recall
which in effect means that a film takes on an "unintentional"
effect on the audience and world at large.
I was wondering about this in regards to 9/11.
The "unintended" aspect that seems to have emerged
despite the "intentional" ones.
It becomes kind of a metaphor of sorts describing a
quintessential "shared" moment in time. It is one thing
for 9/11 to have happened and it is tragic true but in the
bigger unintentional picture perhaps it is a "witness to history"
effect occuring or to "horror" or perhaps simply to "reality".
Never have so many perhaps witnessed via a medium an
act of such a nature.
Now was that intentional.... it is hard to say.... Could the
results be predicted..... not quite exactly..... What in effect then
happened?.... What did we witness?.... The brutality of humanity
or wait..... is there something more here..... we witness sort of the
power of intent and yet the power of unintent perhaps as well.
Certainly it had the effect the perpetrators "intended" yet metaphorically something else is happening almost on a
spiritual level..... we are caught in the dilemna of "existence"
why are we here ...??? to witness ourselves and our self-destructive tendancies and brutalities....
We capture as it were or are caught in kind of a philosphical
or quintessential struggle of humanity. I don't know if that was
an intended effect though. We witness a tradgey but we witness
it together enmasse and it poses a question to our very souls.
?Why are we here? What are we doing? Who are we? Who are
they?
This kind of shared question is almost like a group meditation
a group query.
We are all gathered at one shared moment asking the same
"deep" and unanswerable questions and they resonate in us and out to the Universe. It is well for each of us to ask these question
but in masse there is like a shared prayer or intent or solicitation
effect to the Creator or Great Spirit.
We are caught in a Celestial group hug or concern as were....
and take solace in the shared echoe as it resonates in atmosphere and ? possiblity in our sharing and togetherness the Universe
responds??????? More >
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 7 Oct 2004 @ 21:01, by jhs. Spirituality
(Italian version / italiano)
To understand the phenomenon of "nehama d’ksufa" (bread of shame), Kabbalists use the following picture:
"G.d" unfolded itself into two parts, a source and a vessel. Like one is pouring wine from a bottle into a container like a chalice, there is a point where the vessel is full. To 'reunite' itself, there must be flow back. This they often call the 'way home'.
There seem to be at least two different definitions of "nehama d’ksufa" (bread of shame) around (please e-mail or post other definitions which you heard):
a) the backflow itself, that means the flowing of the wine from the chalice back into the bottle, b) the spilling of wine in the process
In the dynamics of polarities we don't want to accept the same label for two different things. Let's call the first phenomenon simply 'backflow' or a "clean flow" and the second a "dirty flow".
For anyone who studied "Polar Dynamics", it is immediate clear how these flows relate to polarities, but it is apparently not clear enough how these rather abstract descriptions apply to life itself.
Here are some definitions to embed it into the language of polar dynamics:.... More >
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6 Oct 2004 @ 17:10, by swanny. Spirituality
A CRUCIAL ACT AND MEDITATION
As we gather here in togetherness, united upon this Harmonious Global Concinnity, it remains for us to do a crucial and fundamental Act. In that we were born and are of the old world, yet now we form the basis of the new. Still much of what was old lingers in many shapes and forms. If we are to proceed unto the New Earth then we must remember and respect some of the ways of old. But also we must rise above the limitations imposed by the past and act with a new Love, Joy and Grace. It is thus therefore that it is proposed to perform this act of Healing and Forgiveness and Purification.
Healing and Forgiveness
What is to be healed and forgiven?
Money!
We must heal and forgive the money, a lifeblood of the old ways. A blood that perhaps carries with it much sins, greed and grievances. A blood that begat perhaps many a crime, violence and hatred..... in order for us to move on into new and better exchanges and ways we must meditate to heal, forgive and purify these. the currencies of Life.
The Meditation
So in our ensuing meditations..... let us together..... contemplate these currencies
and heal, forgive and purify them to be worthy of this the New Earth. Upon them let
us shower our time and love and make them clean.
The Vibration
Money carries a vibration..... it is this semi-natural vibration that we must purify of
all its old and sinful dealings...... Let us wash then, its vibration clean and well.....
that it make serve in a greater capacity and utility for all of mammality.
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 5 Oct 2004 @ 05:51, by kay. Spirituality
I have always had a love for birds and communicate well with them having learned to call the birds to come to me many years ago. I particularly love the majestic Raven with its nearly three foot wingspan. More >
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 30 Sep 2004 @ 23:59, by ming. Spirituality
Paul Hughes talks about the potentials of the dream world:I have come to believe that dreams are actually quite real, more real the so-called “waking life” and that this waking life is simply part of what we must make authentic via this dream world. I can’t speak for others, but I am now quite certain (as certain as I can be about anything) that my dream life is trying desperately to become manifest here in the real world. This might sound too new agey for some people, but it all makes perfect sense to me. When things go right in my life, they have this unmistakable resonance with my dream life – the feelings, sensations, gestalts and so on. In my dream life all the answers are there, the solutions to our problems, to world peace, to sustainable society, to genuine happiness for everyone. It seems so obvious, so simple in my dream life, and yet so complicated here. I feel the same way. The best decisions I've made, the most beneficial and surprising turns of my life have all come out of or been connected with my dreamworld. And there's something there, under the surface, bubbling up where it can, which, however undescribable it is, seems to offer the answers we need to make the world work better for us. I easily forget, and I often don't listen, but my experience does tell me that it usually is more effective to sleep and dream and see what surfaces than it is to think of a solution with mental willpower alone.
I don't really understand how it works, but that is probably part of the magic, and part of the problem. That I think I have to understand. We so easily dillude ourselves as to our waking mental faculties. But yet they're so incomplete and faulty, and we don't have all the necessary information, so we're often incapable of making good decisions. And that might be because we try to do it with just the visible 10% of the iceberg. The rest, the more important parts, are under the surface.
It seems like the bigger mind we hook into in dream states works on more channels. It has more dimensions, more connections. More degrees of freedom than our more rigid conscious minds that only can juggle a handful of concepts at the same time, and not very well at that.
But yet there's quite a veil between the different parts of ourselves. So much that most of us don't really remember what happens in that other section of our lives, and when we do it is just a jumbled mess which fades quickly. Which easily can be dismissed as just misfiring neurons and recooked hallucinations of yesterday. Where really it could be infinitely more.
What would happen if the veil lifted significantly more? What if we could be as multi-dimensionally hooked up all the time? What if we accepted the dreamworld more as a legitimate sphere to navigate our lives through?
I don't know, but let me sleep on it. More >
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21 Sep 2004 @ 17:43, by craiglang. Spirituality
I got a few interesting comments back on my last post on "Psychic Fulfillment". A comment that I got back from at least one person was that in these times, it is more important to focus on the large than the small. To me this suggests that even focusing on the question of the day-job is in effect, a form of "service to self". But is this in fact, the case? More >
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9 Sep 2004 @ 13:46, by scotty. Spirituality
Is it really happening ? I for one think that it is !
There’s a whole lot of bad stuff going on in the world today – it’s easy to get caught up in it all – it’s easy to think that the world and the people in it are going down the toilet !
It’s difficult to step back a bit and try to look at it as a whole and try to put the whole picture into a clearer perspective. But that is what we have to do if we don’t want to be submerged and overwhelmed with fear and lose all hope that things are going to get better. More >
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 6 Sep 2004 @ 16:08, by radi8. Spirituality
The Transformational Tarot embodies the spriit of the original Tarot -- it is intended to work at a generally higher level than telling your fortune. My Tarot works more like a Zen Koan, it can tell you what is going on in your life or it can point you in a new direction.
You can send me an email from within the website or from within the online Tarot Deck. Thank you!
http://www.radi8.org/exhibits/exhibit_8/index.html More >
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1 Sep 2004 @ 15:44, by craiglang. Spirituality
The last week or two has been one of continually being on the go. There is so much to do, so many things to get done, so many events to attend, and so many things on the calendar. In the last week, I have also noted a number of very synchronistic references to the idea of "being" vs "doing". At the National Guild of Hypnotists conference two weeks ago, one of the speakers made the comment that we should really be called "human-doings" rather than "human-beings", because we are all so busy and so focused on what we are doing. When I look at my date book, I again realize just how right she was. More >
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28 Aug 2004 @ 03:14, by ov. Spirituality
Sat 28th Aug -- Patience Night
Nine / Patience
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The energy of Nine is one of getting a better perspective of the bigger picture. With the energy of Nine, plans or patterns begin to come to completion. With the energy of Nine, patience and perseverence found in the bigger picture are strong or there is great suffering for the lack thereof. The completion of cycles of action is all-important to Nine.
Night
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Bringers of the dawn. Dreamers who bring the new sun to clarify and illuminate the road of life. Thus the insecurities and doubts born of darkness or the sub-conscious mind are dispelled. These persons travel the Void, a place where nothing exists but all potential dwells, the womb of creation. From this void, Night persons bring forth new solutions and artistic inspiration. Night's voyages of dreams build confidence and happiness with a sense of well being. If Night does not bravely journey into the void they may find themselves waundering the darkness of self-doubt and insecurity.
A good day to: Spend time contemplating the stars.
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