tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post3654967361439639360..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Monkey in the MiddleGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-74838204189371613232008-10-14T08:03:00.000-07:002008-10-14T08:03:00.000-07:00Petey - You keep saying that name. I do not think ...Petey - You keep saying that name. I do not think it means what you think it means.Ray Ingleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16290483120987779339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-76470813337179322142008-10-14T04:05:00.000-07:002008-10-14T04:05:00.000-07:00Cheers, fellow-breathers!If I find the O.M. Aivanh...Cheers, fellow-breathers!<BR/>If I find the O.M. Aivanhov quote and drawing of this principle, I'll post a scan here [where I first encountered it]<BR/>It is a nice 'Aha!' to find the anatomical component in the most salient symbols, they are usually--some might claim always--theregehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-54472514024145076632008-10-13T09:21:00.000-07:002008-10-13T09:21:00.000-07:00Brazentide, that's very cool.Brazentide, that's very cool.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-31669758877411620382008-10-13T08:56:00.000-07:002008-10-13T08:56:00.000-07:00Gödel.Gödel.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-37888010278636314092008-10-13T07:34:00.001-07:002008-10-13T07:34:00.001-07:00one of the major conceptual problems in physics is...<I>one of the major conceptual problems in physics is that even physicists don’t know what to do about the bizarre micro-world they have discovered, as it [has not yet been] reconciled with the macro-world of relativity</I><BR/><BR/>Fixed that for you. :-><BR/><BR/><I>that science does not disclose the real world, but various abstract models of the world that humans -- and only humans -- may access, and only because of their humanness.</I><BR/><BR/>The question, of course, is if religion is <I>also</I> a model, a map, and not the territory?Ray Ingleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16290483120987779339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-51653243566661073972008-10-13T07:34:00.000-07:002008-10-13T07:34:00.000-07:00the inverted tree/lung is one of those profunditie...the inverted tree/lung is one of those profundities that keeps bringing me back to this site. I couldn't resist making a quick image of it.<A HREF="http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp37/brazentide/breath.jpg" REL="nofollow"><BR/>found here</A>. (perhaps its been done already, but I haven't see it)Brazentidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14185966349888770222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-135513568588378312008-10-12T10:21:00.000-07:002008-10-12T10:21:00.000-07:00Hence anxiety is the dizziness of freedom, which e...<I>Hence anxiety is the dizziness of freedom, which emerges when the spirit wants to posit the synthesis and freedom looks down into possibility, laying hold of finiteness to support itself. Freedom succumbs in this dizziness. Further than this, psychology cannot and will not go. In that very moment everything is changed, and freedom, when it again rises, sees that it is guilty. Between these two moments lies the leap, which no science has explained and which no science will explain.</I> ~ Kierkegaard, <I>Concept of Anxiety</I>Quin Finneganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14318170300353426056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-61020253008188275942008-10-12T08:26:00.000-07:002008-10-12T08:26:00.000-07:00I forget which of the two books the idea was in, b...I forget which of the two books the idea was in, but there was a description of trees as being <I>exoteric</I> or radiant, in that their lungs - their leaves - were on the outside, where animals are esoteric or enfolded because the organs are on the inside, enclosed.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-84359134590372185652008-10-12T08:08:00.000-07:002008-10-12T08:08:00.000-07:00As my son would say, "I like that good idea." The...As my son would say, "I like that good idea." The idea of breath, spiritus, pneuma, or ruah is central to early Christian thought. Also, it is interesting that the tree represents an inverted symbol in another sense, in that it inhales CO2 and exhales oxygen.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-14085698272489250132008-10-12T04:06:00.000-07:002008-10-12T04:06:00.000-07:00“In the Vedas and Upanishads, we find the ‘world t...“In the Vedas and Upanishads, we find the ‘world tree’, inverted sometimes so as to suggest to origin of its powers in ‘the heights’ in the ‘heavens’. Here we discover a welcome convergence of many elements and ideas. From this tree drips the nectar of immortality [soma or amrita] and whoever sips it is inspired with a vision beyond the reaches of time, a vision that awakens the momory of all the infinite forms of existence. In the foliage of the tree hides Yama, the god of beyond the grave, whom we also know as the king of the primordial state.. .”<BR/><BR/>Evola <BR/>[THE HERMETIC TRADITION]<BR/>Could this tree [also] be the lungs?<BR/>this struck me rereading the passagegehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-11522619318241893352008-10-11T20:37:00.000-07:002008-10-11T20:37:00.000-07:00"...embedded in any religious tradition are all so..."...embedded in any religious tradition are all sorts of exquisite metaphysical insights that are expressed in an obscure, ambiguous, symbolic, or mythological way. Thus, they have to be unpacked and understood. Well, not necessarily. They do their deepest work on a resonant unconscious (or supraconscious) level,..."<BR/><BR/>Deu 30:11-14<BR/><BR/> For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. <BR/> It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? <BR/> Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? <BR/> But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-89261776936224062352008-10-11T16:01:00.000-07:002008-10-11T16:01:00.000-07:00EncounterSo I stood glaring,Staring him down if I ...Encounter<BR/><BR/>So I stood glaring,<BR/>Staring him down if I could.<BR/><BR/>Square in the wide eyes<BR/>I sent my steely cold gaze.<BR/><BR/>I found no end to him, none.<BR/>I could not quite breathe.<BR/><BR/>He touched me then. It pierced me.<BR/><BR/>His unblinking eyes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-26383683986285963662008-10-11T14:41:00.000-07:002008-10-11T14:41:00.000-07:00Who is that staring at me through all the stars in...Who is that staring at me through all the stars in heaven and all the creatures on earth?<BR/><BR/>Cover your eyes, stars and creatures; do not look upon my nakedness. Shame torments me enough through my own eyes.<BR/><BR/>What is there for you to see? A tree of life that has been reduced to a thorn on the road, that pricks both itself and others. What else-except a heavenly flame immersed in mud, a flame that neither gives light nor goes out?<BR/><BR/>Plowmen, it is not your plowing that matters but the Lord who watches.<BR/><BR/>Singers, it is not your singing that matters but the Lord who listens.<BR/><BR/>Sleepers, it is not your sleeping that matters but the Lord who wakens.<BR/><BR/>It is not the pools of water in the rocks around the lake that matter but the lake itself.<BR/><BR/>What is all human time but a wave that moistens the burning sand on the shore, and then regrets that it left the lake, because it has dried up?<BR/><BR/>O stars and creatures, do not look at me with your eyes but at the Lord. He alone sees. Look at Him and you will see yourselves in your homeland.<BR/><BR/>What do you see when you look at me? A picture of your exile? A mirror of your fleeting transitoriness?<BR/><BR/>O Lord, my beautiful veil, embroidered with golden seraphim, drape over my face like a veil over the face of a widow, and collect my tears, in which the sorrow of all Your creatures seethes.<BR/><BR/>O Lord, my beauty, come and visit me, lest I be ashamed of my nakedness—lest the many thirsty glances that are falling upon me return home thirsty.<BR/><BR/>-- Prayers by the Lake (No.1) by St. Nikolai of OchridAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-56349436955732327232008-10-11T12:54:00.000-07:002008-10-11T12:54:00.000-07:00Well, er, this theory of yours appears to have hit...Well, er, this theory of yours appears to have hit the nail on the head.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-36582581434981370722008-10-11T12:52:00.000-07:002008-10-11T12:52:00.000-07:00"Religion embodies specifically human knowledge ai..."Religion embodies specifically human knowledge aimed at the human world."<BR/><BR/>Quidquid recipietur secundum modum recipientis recipietur.<BR/><BR/>Brilliant!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-24435796588211247782008-10-11T12:09:00.000-07:002008-10-11T12:09:00.000-07:00...if reality is nothing else, it is One.I said, o...<I>...if reality is nothing else, it is One.</I><BR/><BR/>I said, oh, common one, my illuminated one.<BR/>Oh my high in the art of sufferin' one.<BR/>Take a walk with me<BR/>Take a walk with me down by Avalon<BR/>Oh, my common one with the coat so old<BR/>And the light in her head<BR/>And the sufferin' so fine<BR/>Take a walk with me down by Avalon<BR/>And I will show you<BR/>It ain't why, why, why<BR/>It just is<BR/><BR/>-Van Morrison (Common One, <I>Summertime In England</I>)robinstarfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-29684866961278216402008-10-11T12:07:00.000-07:002008-10-11T12:07:00.000-07:00I was trimming out the eaves of my house with ceda...I was trimming out the eaves of my house with cedar strips. Hard on the knees going up and down up and down the long ladder. Hard on my perfectionist’s stomach the aggravation of not getting the measuring and cutting perfectly right the first time. So my mind wanders to the political, the spiritual, the fantastical – to the point where my body is going thru the motions but I’m mentally “not all there”. In an absentminded haze I grab a piece straight off the pile with my reloaded nail gun but without my pencil and go up the long ladder. The piece fits perfectly. What? I wake up to focus, and think for a second “Is that how this metaphysical interdimensional relationship works? The one-way mirror opens via some spiritual connection, but closes when the materialistic takes over” But then “reason” set in. Naw, that’s crazy... <BR/><BR/>But I never forgot that little event through all the years since.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-6534597155751962952008-10-11T09:41:00.000-07:002008-10-11T09:41:00.000-07:00SpinningThe stories I tell,Only I really listen.I ...Spinning<BR/><BR/>The stories I tell,<BR/>Only I really listen.<BR/><BR/>I see you spin yarns<BR/>Like me. We are small spiders<BR/>With long silver silken threads.<BR/><BR/>We line the blue sky.<BR/>We line the wide horizon.<BR/>Yes! We line ourselves.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-24023696307524801042008-10-11T09:00:00.000-07:002008-10-11T09:00:00.000-07:00Bob wrote:In reality there is just the one world t...Bob wrote:<BR/><I>In reality there is just the one world that miraculously knows itself in the act of knowledge, as "the circle which opens in truth closes in beauty."</I><BR/><BR/>Been pondering this human function of "connecting all the dots" (your <I>world that knows itself in the act of knowledge</I>) and what part of our being -- specifically -- does the doing of it. I get inklings, but not yet real clarity; my interior vision is not yet strong enough.<BR/><BR/>Meantime, it's my turn to link, to illustrate your phrase "the circle of truth closes in beauty" with <A HREF="http://robinstarfish.blogspot.com/2008/10/censer.html" REL="nofollow">this</A>: now <I>that's beauty!</I><BR/><BR/>And of the Monkey (me) in the Middle, as a <I>bridge</I> linking/knowing all levels, at least in potential -- it seems proper to me to call it a <I>bridging,</I> for it surely must be an action, a kind of gesture, even if not an outward one.<BR/><BR/>Great post, Bob!walthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01388218390016612051noreply@blogger.com