tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64221755526143927782024-02-19T17:28:51.817-08:00Serpentrio ArquilaSerpentrio Arquilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06177056115466970422noreply@blogger.comBlogger92125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422175552614392778.post-54706678488010657122012-07-12T21:46:00.000-07:002012-07-12T21:46:53.253-07:00lovers of truthI wasn't sure what to call this post. That's as good a title as any.<br />
When you've finished this post, the meaning will hopefully be clear.<br />
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The following is a 14 minute video by Jeff Foster on nonduality and ADMITTANCE.<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAD_atvn5fw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAD_atvn5fw</a><br />
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We see that "admitting the truth" is being present/nondual.<br />
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This also coincides with the Qabalistic Shekinah - ShKINH.<br />
This is one of the hebrew words for "the presence" (of God).<br />
I thought it of interest that the root KN has the colloquial meaning "Yes, this is so."<br />
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Perhaps this is the intended meaning of AMN, "so be it", the "hidden" god.Serpentrio Arquilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06177056115466970422noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422175552614392778.post-85994767469733324062012-07-11T17:28:00.000-07:002012-07-12T02:59:02.284-07:005 dimensional space-timeI can't recommend this enough. It is so simple and ingenious.<br />
I don't agree with everything in it, but it is still enlightening and will get your genius going.<br />
An experiential tour through dimensions, evolution, language, consciousness...<br />
Something like this should be taught in school. <br />
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<a href="http://5dspace-time.org/Chapter00.html">http://5dspace-time.org/Chapter00.html</a><br />
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Hebrew is another language that would have been applicable. What he describes really resembles this:<br />
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<img alt="" class="rg_hi uh_hi" data-height="180" data-width="279" height="411" id="rg_hi" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQt55H1H2ZOdKfd-i5TvPUD4lZLUdtKwsUgTJu9HHPD_do8UmIgGw" width="640" /><br />
<br />Serpentrio Arquilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06177056115466970422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422175552614392778.post-1396513654311073442012-07-05T07:57:00.001-07:002012-07-05T08:56:46.842-07:00the river of lifeThe river of life flows, if I may, from future to past.<br />
Have you noticed?<br />
The future hasn't happened yet; it is unknown.<br />
The past already happened and is known.<br />
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Now if you look at the workings of the mind/ego, it always refers to<br />
its knowledge (the known) and the past to define itself and the world.<br />
It tries to row against the flow of the river of life, and some call that<br />
'death', not living. Did you read 'Adam' below?<br />
ADM 40 resists the flow of life.<br />
ADM 600 receives the pregnant creativity of the unknown.<br />
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These are the two rivers/waters signified by M (Mem) and MIM (Mayim).<br />
MIM means "waters". Notice there are two Ms: one at the beginning = 40,<br />
and the M final = 600. And I (existence) in the middle of two waters/energies/flows.<br />
This is our constant choice, the Pythagorean 'Y'.<br />
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"The wheel of time (river of life) is like a state of heightened awareness which is part of the
other self, as the left side awareness is part of the self of everyday life. It
can physically be described as a tunnel of infinite length and width; a tunnel
with reflective furrows. Every furrow is infinite, and there are infinite
numbers of them. Living creatures are compulsorily made, by the force of life,
to gaze into one furrow. To gaze into it means to be trapped by it, to live that
furrow.<br />
<cite>Will</cite> belongs to the wheel of time. It is something
like the runner of a vine, or an intangible tentacle which all of us possess. A
warrior's final aim is to learn to focus it on the wheel of time in order to
make it turn. Warriors who have succeeded in turning the wheel of time can gaze
into any furrow and draw from it whatever they desire. <strong>To be trapped
compulsorily in one furrow of time entails seeing the images of that furrow</strong> <strong>only
as they recede</strong>. <strong>To be free from the spellbinding force of those grooves means
that one can look in either direction, as images recede or as they approach</strong>." - Castaneda, "The Eagle's Gift"<br />
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What is it to be a warrior? To have will? In hebrew Mars is spelled MADIM.<br />
Do you see the two waters/Ms? Adam in the waters of life, the river of life with<br />
two directions/choices: <br />
1) The past resists by constructing known structures of identity/ego which give one security and comfort.<br />
2) The future welcomes the unknown unstructured creative flow of a pregnant universe.<br />
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The will/martial force is distributed among two of the zodiac - aries (fire sign) and scorpio (water sign).<br />
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ADM is evolving/living and perfected when he faces the East/QDM where the new dawn arises,<br />
where spring/aries begins.<br />
A = 1<br />
Q = 100<br />
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God placed the cherubim and the flaming sword in the east of the garden after "evicting" Adam<br />
and Eve, to guard the way to the tree of life. Do you see the significance?Serpentrio Arquilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06177056115466970422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422175552614392778.post-47778952596128267202012-07-05T05:33:00.002-07:002012-07-05T05:33:52.987-07:00AdamAdam, in hebrew ADM.<br />
The word is also associated to the color red.<br />
If you were to define existence by color vibration, red is the lowest in the spectrum.<br />
This signifies incarnation, physical being.<br />
Another way to divide/divine the word is Aleph in DM, DM being the hebrew word<br />
for blood: the unthinkable Aleph in the blood as man/ADM.<br />
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Adam has a dual existence signified by the Mfinal.<br />
Which is to say, ordinarily M has a value of 40, but at the end of a word the value is 600.<br />
As ADM-40, M is a further expression of D (4) which is an archetype of resistance/stability.<br />
M (40) is the waters of life. M (600) is the cosmic extension of 6 (Vau) which is the <br />
archetype of union, or an impregnating force. 600 is the value of Kosmos.<br />
So we see here the potential paths of man/ADM as the son of man (ADM-40) in a state of<br />
dual resistance, or as the son of God (ADM-600) in a state of union with the pregnant Kosmos.<br />
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Coincidentally, we have the schema AVM which, although associated with Hindu mysticism,<br />
reveals the unthinkable Aleph in Kosmic sacred marriage - vibration of the Universe, indeed.<br />
This is our expression when we replace resistance (D) with union (V). ADM becomes AVM.Serpentrio Arquilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06177056115466970422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422175552614392778.post-68787003644653484332012-07-05T04:46:00.001-07:002012-07-05T04:46:49.179-07:00communicating with crop circlesAren't crop circles fascinating!?<br />
And very humbling when you realise you can't read them -<br />
someone in the universe speaks this language.<br />
When will you?<br />
<br />
This language is so different than ours. Yes, some of them employ<br />
codes we can decipher, but mainly they are not rational or linear -<br />
they are meant to be felt, merged with, intuited, silent knowledge.<br />
Imagine language has dimensions. Reading these isn't about being smart.<br />
We think of advanced civilisations and we think of ourselves down the<br />
road in a hundred or a thousand years. But don't think linear; it's dimensional.<br />
They're not using the same cognitive system that currently dominates us.<br />
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Be astonished. Admire them. Love them...<br />
And see what comes to you. Try to avoid thinking and "figuring them out".<br />
Just open to them.<br />
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Here's some that I like:<br />
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<img height="350" id="il_fi" src="http://api.ning.com/files/JASwiCEQL3wpPmBppwepyH5Fgrf5EeI00dutbVONVJ2uCOrFzTdjI3iRTBKdWTkU4WufcF6EzSl3Emvo-vmdzPGB8pdi9Ki9/cropcirclewindmillhill.jpg" style="padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="375" /><br />
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Many crop circles have a six/hex cubic theme. Six is a perfect number.<br />
Realise what that means - it's not just an arbitrary statistic: "We would have <br />
come across a perfect number eventually. Six just happens to be the first."<br />
No, no! Communicate. Ask six to tell you who s/he is. <br />
What do we know about six? If we write it down how many pages can we fill?<br />
Not many. But six is an encyclopedia of wisdom. How does 6 communicate?<br />
Do numbers speak english? No. So what do you 'listen' with? Find out!<br />
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<img alt="" src="http://api.ning.com/files/MG64huovm-zMfynvXB-E-o2UhNbadBM*VK285GWxXjzj**li1vUGKCoKUe8qmfhIMIvLZfsk6vJi-OJ8AZPRIwELQaUfHT*k/Crop_Circle_spirals.jpg" /><br />
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Do you see the spiralling cubes (above pic)? They start around the very center,<br />
and expand with each set of six circles by giving dimension to the hexagons.<br />
There are thirteen major ones, each have two primary, two secondary, and two <br />
tertiary satellites. Focus in on the cube made of the 6 largest circles/spheres which<br />
have equal diameter to the central sphere. Do you see how the others spheres<br />
distribute through the space in 3-d? Like looking at an electron cloud or moving<br />
through an asteroid belt. There's another pattern in there which I can't begin to<br />
describe. Is it a molecule? Below is calcite, for example.<br />
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<img alt="" class="rg_hi uh_hi" data-height="199" data-width="253" height="199" id="rg_hi" src="https://encrypted-tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQrDWL0vxhEqx_uiySzNF0KSRu3qcP8mdg_rlTEGT_kmlLrAWeuTA" style="height: 199px; width: 253px;" width="253" /><br />
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<img alt="" class="rg_hi uh_hi" data-height="193" data-width="261" height="295" id="rg_hi" src="https://encrypted-tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR4S1vuKV2dtr0_L9bWcXHQCDkce1d4g8eSHmTxwJNB4xwuZ7_6cw" width="400" /><br />
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<a href="http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/imagenes_circultivos/circuloscultivos25_03.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="2" src="http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/imagenes_circultivos/circuloscultivos25_03_small.jpg" vspace="10" xthumbnail-orig-image="../imagenes_circultivos/circuloscultivos25_03.jpg" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/imagenes_circultivos/circuloscultivos25_01.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="2" src="http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/imagenes_circultivos/circuloscultivos25_01_small.jpg" vspace="10" xthumbnail-orig-image="../imagenes_circultivos/circuloscultivos25_01.jpg" /></a><br />
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Notice the different feel of this next one. Some do seem intended for smart people.<br />
What does that tell you about who sent the message? It's really difficult for me to feel<br />
love about this one. I just threw it in as an example. Someone speaks this language.<br />
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<img alt="" src="http://api.ning.com/files/Ijn7W030HSeHLXXm-AOBFD1CDljBc0HIzikLDvYstawROHFl*fdinsVpA3C*SUp*v6BvoIFsB*ZQE0remlOGoa*gYtUCJFB6/cropaliencodex.jpg" /><br />
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Some make it easier on us and communicate in binary code:<br />
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<img alt="" height="214" src="http://api.ning.com/files/N2yRSLPAhl-*DIbaAw-pGGZoENDMjIZh2zE*GF-xIGbM14pnboHOlB8s0qHvJsCIfVJ5gNUoP4*QMirV3UMrRPmMCzTTIZy4/CropCircleAlienwithBinaryDisc.jpg" width="320" /><br />
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<br />
Below, the 2-d checkerboeard square and lines are warping as if pulled into a vortex. Is this<br />
someone's DNA? Ours has 64 codons, the 8x8 checkerboard. This checkerboard seems to be <br />
12x12, 144 codons? Maybe not intended to be DNA at all.<br />
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<img alt="" class="rg_hi uh_hi" data-height="224" data-width="225" height="398" id="rg_hi" src="https://encrypted-tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTjALMfCe_Fbb7TgnNsSiO0CWaTO08GZ2WWUqzjP31TM9fb5DBSeQ" width="400" /><br />
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A Penrose triangle - impossible structure in three dimensions. So often they seem<br />
to encourage us to explore other dimensions.<br />
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<img alt="" class="rg_hi uh_hi" data-height="207" data-width="243" height="340" id="rg_hi" src="https://encrypted-tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ8tlvJIJTIsaHYu8mE4P76cEkc7PsYKeFVHfnlys83r8zxOyvw" width="400" /><br />
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<br />Serpentrio Arquilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06177056115466970422noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422175552614392778.post-35175757114253258922012-07-04T05:50:00.003-07:002012-07-04T05:50:57.359-07:00the fundamental questionFrom Carlo Suares:<br />
<br />
In some detective novels, at a point similar to this, the author sometimes
challenges the readers. They have all the clues. Can they find who the murderer
is? The question here is somewhat different: can the reader guess what the
author thinks he can murder him psychologically with?.. (There are two kinds of
deaths: the dead death and the death of resurrection. I do not care to know
whether it is possible or not to resurrect dead bodies. It is irrelevant.)
<br /><br />Of course the reader will only find here words, words. He will not die
psychologically unless he plays the game. If he plays the game he may or may
not, at his will. <br /><br />**************************** <br /><br />Here is the game.
<br /><br />"Have you in mind any basic fundamental question, really vital for you?"
asks C.S. to a friend. <br /><br />"I have," says X.Y.Z., "three fundamental
questions: What is living? What is death? What is life?" <br /><br />"I've heard
them already and am sorry to say they are not basic. When you ask: what is
living? that question stands upon, is supported by, your notion of living. That
notion is not fundamental: it rests on the concept "living" as opposed to
"non-living". Dig into it and you will see that the concept "living" is a
conclusion, an abstraction, a projection of the mind. When you ask "what is
death?" you complicate the matter still further. As I already said, you oppose
arbitrarily death to life. When you ask "what is death?", you are implicitly and
unknowingly asking "what is birth?" Do you want an answer based on biology,
ethnology or natural history? And of course, when you ask "what is life?", you
are sure to receive innumerable answers. Scientists, metaphysicians, mystics, or
anybody around the corner, will tell you "what life is". Everyone has his notion
of what life is. This question is anything but fundamental." <br /><br />"But I have
no idea of what life really is. My question is really fundamental." <br /><br />"It
isn't. You have in mind, again, the distinction between that life is and that it is not. Do you consider it to be a state of ceaseless change, a
functional activity peculiar to organized matter? Or is it a mental projection
resulting from such assertions as "I am life," etc. . . supposed to have been
uttered by some deity? Whatever you mean by "what is life" has an enormous
background of knowledge, observation, creed or faith. It is not a fundamental
question. It is based on a qualification and a classification resulting of an
inner feeling of "being" and an outward superficial observation of things that
are considered a priori to be alive." <br /><br />"All right. So what are the
fundamental questions?" <br /><br />"Not the questions: there is one and there can
only be ONE fundamental question; don't you see? Two questions would not be
basic: they would arise from two different points of view, concepts or
perceptions, hence they would contain a cause unknown to you, for being two.
They would be effects of that cause. An effect is not fundamental, nor is the
cause, because a cause is always the effect of another cause. By definition, the
basic question is based on nothing. It arises from the nature and structure of
thought in its clearest perception." <br /><br />"I don't know what you are talking
about." <br /><br />"Of course you don't. You do. I have formulated the fundamental
question in every one of my books, lectures, articles. You have read it a number
of times in the last twenty years. I always declared it to be basic." <br />
<br />"You
mean I skipped it and it is fundamental?" <br /><br />"No. You skipped it because it
is fundamental." <br /><br />"Let's drop your rigmarole and come to the point. What
is it?" <br /><br />"We've gone a longer way than you think towards it. Will you
now, please, keep in mind everything you know, believe in, think about;
everything you feel to be obvious, every certainty, such as the simple fact that
we are both here, talking together. . . or, reader, the obvious fact that you
are reading this. Now, if you came to play the game, keep in mind everything,
conscious or unconscious that is in your mind, and even the fact that you exist,
keep it all under your scrutiny so as to be sure that you will not use any part
of it, absolutely not. Shut your eyes, open them, make a statement. State
something." <br /><br />"I see something." <br /><br />"Wake up! You are not playing the
game. Discard the I and the seeing." <br /><br />"Well! There is something anyway."
<br /><br />"Correct. There is something. And if you are honestly playing the game,
you are not satisfied in totally containing, limiting, classifying the things
you see as: this is a book, a room, or anything else. The immediate causes for
their being what they are and for being there do not explain away how it is that
they are there at all. You know nothing about that. Your consciousness is in a
state of waking up to the blunt, absolute unchallengable fact that there is
something, period. This statement is so simple that it is already difficult to
come to it. Any average mind, dreaming its childish dream, would say: of course
there is something! And to prove its point, it would describe the outer world
with the notion that every element it is obvious because it is perceived and
recognizable through some equivalence. That obviousness of things acts as a
screen to the fact that everything is included in the unknowable nature of time
and space. We have now gone a long way towards the statement there is something,
because on the way we have acquired the capacity of knowing that we don't know
fundamentally what it is that is. So what is the basic question that arises?"
<br /><br />"What is it that is?" <br /><br />"No, no: you are falling asleep again.
Your question is an appeal to link something that you cannot think about to
something that belongs to one or another of your memories. You want to exchange the
unthinkable for the thinkable. You are trying to draw upon the provisions stored
in your mind. As I said a while ago: think. Think with the naked intrinsic
nature and structure of thought. Thought is made of time and space and cannot
understand time or space: thought does not understand itself. So think!"
<br />(Please reader, this is vital: Think!) <br /><br />"Well... there is
something... I do not allow myself to recognize any part in it, because, of
course, I would not be thinking: I would only be searching concepts in my
repertory of classified words. I am therefore compelled to state that I simply
don't know how it is that that which is is here at all." <br /><br />"We have come at
last to the fundamental question; how is it there is anything at all? Can you
answer that?" <br /><br />"No. I have already seen through the texture of thought.
Its nature is time, its structure is measures. So I cannot think how it is that
anything is." <br /><br />"That's it! I can think five billion light-years or one
billion's part of a second, but I cannot think a beginning of time, or a time
that has already always been. I cannot think a something created out of
nothing - and anyway a nothing pregnant with a future something would already be
something. I cannot think an always, always, and when I go deeper and deeper in
it I feel insanity awaiting. An always always before and an always always after.
. . always always go into it. . . If you tried to go into it, to feel it, to
mean it, if you could for a single moment try to live with the notion that the
something that you are compelled to assert has never begun and will never end,
you would soon have your thought declare itself at its end. You have discarded
as being already something the erroneous alternative of a
nothing-out-of-which-something-was-created. So only the unthinkable is left."
<br /><br />**************************** <br /><br />That is the end of the dialogue.
The weapon for your psychological murder and resurrection is in you. It is up to
you. It is up to you to allow it to go through you. <br /><br />During one whole day
keep it in mind. Do whatever job you have to do. Meet whatever people you have
to meet. During one whole day keep on saying to yourself: <br /><br />I do not know
how it is that anything is.<br />I meet a Christian, a Jew, a Moslem <br />They say
God-Elohim-Allah. <br />It is irrelevant <br />Would deities be something? <br />I do
not know how it is that anything is. <br />Some say there is a liberation <br />A
transformation <br />From irreality <br />A facing oneself, <br />It is irrelevant
<br />Would such things be something? <br />I do not know how it is that anything
is. <br />Some say: who am I? <br />I am not this gross body <br />I am this gross
body. <br />What is the nature of awareness? <br />What is the self? <br />Is there a
self? <br />There is a self. <br />There is no self. <br />The world is to be removed
<br />It is not to be removed <br />What is the nature of the mind? <br />There is a
path to inquiry. <br />There is no path <br />I must practice <br />I must not
practice <br />Everything is the Siva, the Self. <br />Give yourself up to God
<br />Do not. <br />Do. <br />Whether such things are or are not <br />It is irrelevant
<br />I do not know how it is that anything is.
<br /><br />**************************** <br /><br />I do not know, I do not know. I do
not know. In your religions, philosophies, wisdoms, paths, no-paths; in your
self-knowledge, your assertions, no-assertions, in whatever you say, not say,
do, not do; in your petty exalted minds; in your self-centredness non-centered;
in your conflicts, peace; wherever you are, however you blend with the All; you
are satisfied in evading the fundamental devastating question; you stop at some
point; you do not go far enough; you do not enter the dangerous zone; you cling
to erroneous evidences, you do not go through. <br /><br />I cannot go through
<br />My consciousness is a prisoner <br />A prisoner in the immeasurable world
<br />However large and deep <br />However exalted <br />The "is" is a prison to my
awakening <br />I do not know <br />I know nothing <br />What is this? <br />And I am
this. <br />What? What? <br />And because I cannot go through and because I do not
consent to stop asking myself and not being able to say how it is that anything
is, the question hits me right in my solar plexus; it causes nausea; I feel
sick; I feel in my blood my psyche dying. Yes. It is driven to its death because
every element of what once was its structure is dissolved in the fundamental
enigma, in the unfathomable mystery of the fact that something is.
<br /><br />**************************** <br /><br />If you are not afraid to "lose your
mind", if you play the game with great purpose and vigor, you will discover that
what you are doing is obeying the Aleph's impulse in your psyche to free itself
from all the memories that capture it, anaesthetize it, or, alas, more often
than not, annihilate it. Your psyche becomes the empty dwelling of the Explosive
Energy, whereas your body is more and more cognizant of its conservative,
compressive purpose. Psyche and body, "in joint opposition" recreate in you the
cosmic game of the One Energy in two opposite directions, and the human sense of
fitness is alive and operating in and through you. <br /><br />Be watchful! Never,
never lose the fundamental question: Your fitness is no answer! Let not the
established order in you trap you into any certainty. You know, yet do not know
that the Cosmic Energy is at work in its abode in you. You know yet you do not
know what its process is. You understand yet you do not understand the words
Explosive-Compressive Energy. You no longer hear what so many people have to say
about spiritual experiences, self-realization, good and evil, irreality and
reality, being in a dream, being awake. You don't know. You don't know what the
ultimate reality of a person, a flower an object is. Therefore you are free to
look, to see, to respect, because, after all, there never is any murder.
<br /><br />"Because I respect everything," says Cain, "I am only an orderly
craftsman. Because I respect the psyche I do not want it to give itself, to
prostitute itself to every false obviousness in which Aleph is lost. Because I
respect thought I do not want it to believe that it can find Aleph, hence lose
it. Because I respect words I only accept those that have a real, understandable
meaning, signifying a clear designation. I, because of Aleph alive, am only its
humble craftsman. I want every Bayt I make use of to be as perfect as possible,
in its category. I therefore respect my body to begin with. I want it in good
enough shape to do whatever the unknown inner impulse of explosive Aleph in me
can do with my abilities. Because I respect my abilities I put them at the
service of Aleph, polishing them endlessly. Yes! I am only Aleph's craftsman."
<br /><br />**************************** <br /><br />Some understand Cain, die and
resurrect psychologically. Others don't know what he is talking about: he
doesn't exist for them; they go on carrying the weight of their ordinary
existences; they are satisfied to think they are this or that; they are their
beliefs, creeds, opinions, positions, aspirations, habits, customs, memories and
all their psychological structures. Those feel instinctively that Cain's look
into them, through them, could dispel their very notion of being. Those, indeed,
kill Cain. Mind you! They kill him in themselves! Hence, they remain simple
bags of blood, and Cain, in contrast, is exalted "sevenfold". <br />
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<a href="http://www.psyche.com/psyche/suares/cain2.html">http://www.psyche.com/psyche/suares/cain2.html</a>Serpentrio Arquilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06177056115466970422noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422175552614392778.post-42817002432429588212012-07-04T05:14:00.001-07:002012-07-04T05:14:33.798-07:00Unconditional LoveWe don't begin to understand what this means.<br />
So let's begin - from the master kabbalist, Carlos Suares:<br />
<br />
"An important postulate of the Yetsira is: Aleph with everything and everything
with Aleph: Bayt with everything and everything with Bayt (or Vayt). Aleph being
the timeless, unthinkable, eternal, or explosive Energy (or whichever word we
wish to use for what evades all mental concepts) and Bayt (or Vayt) being any
container in whatever form, shape vibration, undulation, ray, etc. . . that
postulate means -- if I can use an obsolete, inadequate, but convienient set of
words -- that everything that is, in whatever realm, is both "spirit" and
"matter", or that there is no explosive Energy without compressive Energy, and
reciprocally no structural drive without the opposite disintegrating drive. Thus
everything that is, is considered by the Yetsira in terms of two co-ordinates,
Aleph and Bayt. Where Bayt prevails powerfully, as in a piece of iron, Aleph is
hopelessly in bondage; it cannot be active; in the biosphere Aleph operates; in
the exalted mental emanation of a man made perfect, Aleph operates through time
and space by means of so subtle mediums that they evade perception. So both
Aleph and Bayt exist in different ranges from the inert to the very active. If
by any chance one could have in oneself and be made of Aleph alive and Bayt
alive, one would be in touch and commune with Aleph wherever it is and with the
Bayts, whatever they are, therefore with everything that is. Aleph alive would
be Aleph-Hay (Hay: 5 is the sign for life; when Abram is given the life of Aleph
he becomes Abraham, with the corresponding added Hay -H in our writing) and Bayt
alive would be Bayt-Hay. Therefore Aleph-Hay-Bayt-Hay would be in that person
and that person would be in that schema, would be that schema in very truth.
That schema, pronounced Ahavah, means LOVE in Hebrew! Its idiomatic meaning is
desecrated, as is desecrated the word love everywhere in the world. The
stupendous Aleph-Hay-Bayt-Hay was originally a cabalistic opening towards being
at-one with all that is."<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.psyche.com/psyche/suares/cain2.html">http://www.psyche.com/psyche/suares/cain2.html</a>Serpentrio Arquilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06177056115466970422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422175552614392778.post-69148015480166959702012-06-17T05:22:00.002-07:002012-06-17T05:22:08.749-07:00Lucid AwarenessLucid, from the latin lucere: to shine; lux: light; lucidus: full of light.<br />
<br />
There's a lot of books on lucid dreaming so there's no need to cover that here.<br />
But I would like to emphasize the similarities to lucid wakefulness.<br />
A great place to start is to watch yourself fall asleep, trying to stay aware/awake<br />
as the body goes into sleep paralysis. This is a great accomplishment when you<br />
cross that veil, but even greater is to bring this ability, this watchfulness, into<br />
your everyday life.<br />
Watching your body fall asleep is an art, a matter of great skill and subterfuge.<br />
The body won't sleep until it knows the mind is asleep - and of course we want<br />
the mind to stay alert and watchful. So the mind has to pretend it is sleeping.<br />
How do we achieve this? <br />
First let's take care of the body. When falling asleep there are several things to<br />
notice. First, there is a sleep breath. If you haven't noticed your own sleep breath<br />
and you sleep with someone else, notice theirs and mimic it. You should of course<br />
be relaxed as possible, and you may begin with some deep relaxing breaths, but<br />
the sleep breath is not a deep inhalation at all, but quite brief.<br />
As you find a gentle sleep breath rhythm, let your body relax and sink into your<br />
bed or chair or whatever you are napping in. You are not going to move anything<br />
for a while so find a comfortable position and don't cross your legs/ankles or arms;<br />
but if your hands are comfortably resting one on the other, they are a good way to<br />
feel the paralysis set in - often you won't know where one hand ends and the other<br />
begins. This is a good sign to look for.<br />
It is important to take care of the eyes. If you watch yourself fall asleep, there is an<br />
eye position or focus that you'll notice. If you haven't seen this to mimic it, it is<br />
sufficient to just keep your gaze still, perhaps focussed at the root/bridge of the nose.<br />
I am not talking about REM eye patterns. We just want stillness. We want sleep<br />
paralysis. <br />
Then we want to deal with the mind. You want to be as free of thoughts as possible -<br />
to be mentally quiet and still. This is mimicking a theta brainwave state which is<br />
what we're after. So all we need from the mind is stillness and vigilance. If you use<br />
visualisations, try to do so without talking to yourself about them.<br />
With all this preparation, we are ready for sleep paralysis. Keep a relaxed breathing <br />
rhythm, a quiet yet alert mind and relax your body completely... and be aware of the<br />
body getting very heavy - so heavy you can't move any of it... like a blanket filled<br />
with wet sand is laying over you. <br />
And when your body is asleep and your mind is awake, this is a magical platform<br />
for lucid dreaming, astral travel, healing and affirmations (communicating with the<br />
subconscious mind).<br />
<br />
After practicing this, and hopefully making a habit of it, you may begin to see that<br />
there is no reason to drop your guard, to lose vigilance at any time during the day.<br />
That same strong intention that kept the mind awake when your body fell asleep<br />
can be used for mindfulness, presence, heightened awareness throughout the day.<br />
That same intention and stealth can keep you from identifying with the past or<br />
worrying about the future, or taking any moment for granted (going unconscious).<br />
This can be more rewarding than lucid dreaming.<br />
And if you learn not to lose yourself, you won't have any fear of death, for you will<br />
be present for that too, even into the afterlife.<br />Serpentrio Arquilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06177056115466970422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422175552614392778.post-28430828602813094572012-06-10T03:51:00.001-07:002012-06-10T03:53:17.851-07:00The way of loveHave you ever loved?<br />
Have you ever been unable to stop thinking of someone?<br />
Have you ever imagined you cannot live without your beloved?<br />
It's true.<br />
But perhaps you have not realised who the Eternal Beloved is.<br />
Did you ever love from a distance?<br />
Did you ever know the pain of love unreturned?<br />
Did you ever worship a person that didn't even know you exist?<br />
Then imagine how the Eternal Beloved dreams of embracing you.<br />
Won't you gaze inward and behold the face of the One who dreamed you?<br />
If you saw this face, you would never see anything else.<br />
There is no other love.<br />
All else is but an emanation of this Eternal Love.<br />
<br />
Can you hear what I am saying?<br />
This is not an abstraction!<br />
Turn around without your face and see who sees from behind your eyes!<br />
There is no Yoga (Union) but this.<br />
Shiva and Shakti, face to face, lingam penetrating yoni, yoni receiving lingam.<br />
Shivering Universe - can you feel it?!<br />
Are you trembling?<br />
This orgasm is unending!!Serpentrio Arquilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06177056115466970422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422175552614392778.post-84201783927619502012012-05-19T05:58:00.001-07:002012-05-19T06:06:02.686-07:00words<br />
The words are concepts - we can argue the words, but they are only pointing to what<br />
cannot be ex-pressed or conceptualised. Do not be fooled or taken or lost by the words.<br />
It's what cannot be said that I am trying to say.<br />
<br />
Everything must be verified by you. You must look for yourself.<br />
My words are nothing compared to what you can do.<br />
Seeing is the change; realisation comes with awareness.<br />
Awareness is not caused by comprehension or understanding.<br />
Your mind cannot reason this - it cannot be grasped.<br />
The greatest poet cannot convey the sweetness of fruit like your own tongue.<br />
<br />
"Burn your books and whiten your laton."<br />
Why should I define "laton"?<br />
If you look, it is obvious what must be whitened/calcined on the ashes of these books.<br />
<br />
The homonculus is an empty shell of a human being. It is oneself stripped of all things, <br />
all concepts, all time, all meaning... the black phase, the dark k/night.<br />
And then, like the Frankenstein monster, it must be given new life. <br />
We must breathe life into it - the spirit must descend upon it.<br />
And from this spirit it must form a heart. The word is written on our hearts, not in books. <br />
The words are your very heart-strings, your flesh and blood and sinew and bone... <br />
let these be your words. Let the seeing of truth be its own action/verbum.<br />
<br />
Do you see how we kill ourselves... we wash ourselves... we burn ourselves...<br />
and a phoenix rises from the ashes.Serpentrio Arquilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06177056115466970422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422175552614392778.post-81085561102702488042012-05-19T05:18:00.001-07:002012-05-19T13:27:12.483-07:00the end of timeWhen the time loop/bubble pops - no time has passed and nothing has happened.<br />
Such is the mystery of being born again, of entering your mother's womb.<br />
Such is redemption and baptism from sin.<br />
You are present, as if born of a virgin - not from sex, not the product of any pre-existing bodies...<br />
The virgin birth is truly the death of the whore/image/idea of the seperate ego.<br />
It is like waking from a dream.<br />
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<br />
The three in one. The tria prima "pop" dimensionally from unity as seen in<br />
the tetrahedral image of triunity/trinity.<br />
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<img alt="" class="rg_hi uh_hi" data-height="160" data-width="160" height="320" id="rg_hi" src="https://encrypted-tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTU2DKK1K2qLhPBefjeOUSnLWXdn3DlBGu9EUx5HEzEzKHSaTkG" width="320" /><br />Serpentrio Arquilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06177056115466970422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422175552614392778.post-58542534284141247452012-05-14T23:53:00.001-07:002012-05-14T23:53:37.227-07:00YouYou are everything. <br />
Realise the significance of being the microcosm - it's all you.<br />
You are consciousness.<br />
You are time.<br />
You are dimension.<br />
<br />
Let me say that another way for perspective.<br />
You are not IN time. You ARE time.<br />
You are not IN the cosmos. You ARE the cosmos.<br />
You are not IN a dimension. You ARE the dimensions.<br />
<br />
You do not achieve a state of now/presence;<br />
you ARE now/presence, and <strong>everything</strong> issues from you/now/presence presently.<br />
<br />
From now, one thinks of the past and future or "enters" the dimensions or alternate<br />
states of awareness/consciousness. And all those things are you.<br />
The now portal is you. <br />
If you only become more deeply aware of yourself, you will simultaneously<br />
become more aware of time, dimension, consciousness, "God", because these<br />
are not other than you.<br />
<br />
The "other than you" idea sets up an unnecessary struggle between you and the other,<br />
be it time, dimension, consciousness, cosmos...<br />
The idea of God, the idea of consciousness, of time, of dimension... all ideas...<br />
the idea is an abstraction. You are the present reality. You are the direct<br />
unmediated essential.<br />Serpentrio Arquilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06177056115466970422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422175552614392778.post-81900598880808423012012-05-07T04:36:00.000-07:002012-05-07T04:36:25.069-07:00On Philosophy and Wonder"Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher; and philosophy begins in wonder." - Plato<br />
<br />
"Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, <br />
the wonder remains." - Alfred North Whitehead<br />
<br />
"Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts it <br />
raises, is able to suggest many possibilities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from <br />
the tyranny of custom. Thus, while diminishing our feeling of certainty as to what things are, <br />
it greatly increases our knowledge as to what they may be; it removes the somewhat arrogant <br />
dogmatism of those who have never traveled into the region of liberating doubt, and it keeps <br />
alive our sense of wonder by showing familiar things in an unfamiliar aspect."<em> -</em> Bertrand Russell<br />
<br /><br />
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"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring </div>
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fact of mystery." - Henry Miller</div>
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"Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know." - Bertrand Russell</div>
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<br /></div>Serpentrio Arquilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06177056115466970422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422175552614392778.post-7404600278971472562012-05-07T04:15:00.000-07:002012-05-07T04:15:37.084-07:00I want to wake up"I don't want to dream anymore. I want to wake up."<br />
<br />
What is a dream?<br />
"A series of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations occurring involuntarily <br />
in
the mind during certain stages of sleep."<br />
<div class="ds-list">
"A daydream; a reverie."</div>
"A state of abstraction; a trance."<br />
<br />
And how is that different from being awake?<br />
Our common state is thinking, a state of abstraction (not "what is", presence),<br />
a series of images occurring involuntarily in the mind.<br />
One may argue that their thoughts are voluntary while awake. But if we are<br />
honest, for every voluntary thought there are a dozen or more involuntary ones <br />
that react to it. We are more asleep than we are awake.<br />
The whole world is this way and no one seems to care.<br />
We care about a thousand things, but no one is "occupying" any street or city<br />
and demanding that we wake up from our dreams - the greatest conspiracy of<br />
them all: <br />
<br />
<img alt="" class="rg_hi uh_hi" data-height="142" data-width="354" height="142" id="rg_hi" src="https://encrypted-tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS5PNZ4D6cgKnKQ_i5MtxHgzuCMQSMdoNkx3rEqTmXDFQ--Q23PIw" style="height: 142px; width: 354px;" width="354" /><br />
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<br />
"Thinking is an impediment to experiencing; and there is no wisdom without <br />
experiencing. Knowledge, idea, belief, stand in the way of wisdom. An occupied mind <br />
is not free, spontaneous, and only in spontaneity can there be discovery. An occupied <br />
mind is self-enclosing; it is unapproachable, not vulnerable, and therein lies its security. <br />
Thought, by its very structure, is self-isolating; it cannot be made vulnerable. Thought <br />
cannot be spontaneous, it can never be free. Thought is the continuation of the past, and <br />
that which continues cannot be free." - J. Krishnamurti<br />
<br />
Don't you see, when we use our thought/knowledge/past/images we are dreaming - the<br />
ego, the imaginary construct of thought, the thinker, is dreaming for you. The Matrix<br />
has you.<br />
<br />
"You are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Into a prison that <br />
you cannot taste or see or touch. A prison for your mind."<br />
<br />
"This is what happens with human beings. Our mind is a biological machine like a computer.<br />
There is different information in every human being according to their experience. Each one <br />
has learned differently from parents, society, school and religion. The information that we<br />
put in our computer is what will teach us to dream. It tells us how to interpret what we perceive.<br />
According to that information, we perceive the world and call it reality. This information is the<br />
source of our limitations. We create images about ourselves and about everything else. We then<br />
want to believe in those images. The process of putting the information in the computer is the<br />
Domestication. We were domesticated in the same way that we domesticate dogs, by punishment<br />
and reward... The dream of the planet, held by all of us, is the same. When we rise out of the<br />
dream of the planet, and out of our own dream, we find that what we have thought of as truth is<br />
nothing but information in our computer, and it can be easily changed." - Miguel Ruiz<br />
<br />
<br />
Not only can you change information in your computer, but you can perceive in an entirely<br />
different way, beyond the mechanical computer system of thought. <br />
You can exchange one dream for another, decorating your prison cell differently - it is still a <br />
prison. "Thought cannot be free."<br />
Or you can leave the prison, get up and walk out of Plato's cave of reflected images and into<br />
the sunlight.<br />
<br />
"I don't want to dream anymore. I want to wake up."<br />
<br />
<br />Serpentrio Arquilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06177056115466970422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422175552614392778.post-85060829542681144662012-04-20T13:25:00.000-07:002012-04-20T13:25:53.921-07:00apparent timeThis post is an extension of the previous one on the apparent self. Please familiarise <br />
yourself with it first. <br />
<br />
The idea of the self is inextricably combined with the idea of time. Time is, only when <br />
separate self is (apparently, never actually). The idea of the separate self is a center, the <br />
thinker, and correspondingly a circumference, that which one thinks about, one's knowledge, <br />
the projection of the past. This subject-object relationship is separateness, distance and time. <br />
Time is the distance between thoughts. Thoughts are time associated entities. Do you see?<br />
<br />
The projection of the past onto the present as thinking is time; and the projection of the past<br />
knowledge/thinking into an imagined future is also psychological time... again, the self/ego,<br />
knowledge, which is the past, projecting and objectifying itself as the present and future is<br />
apparent time and apparent ego identity - both psychological, linear, associative, apparent<br />
constructs with no actual reality.<br />
<br />
The true and actual present/Presence is timeless, quintessential, unassociated, unconditioned<br />
(by knowledge) consciousness/awareness. Thus the wise Moses said, "Make no image of YHVH."<br />
<br />
<br />
Time is limit. Knowledge is always limited, finite.<br />
Trinity said, "The Matrix cannot tell you who you are."<br />
When I ask, "Who are you?", why do you start thinking?<br />
Thinking cannot tell you who you are.<br />
<br />
Jesus said, "Let him who seeks continue seeking until he finds. When he finds,
he will become <br />
troubled. When he becomes troubled, he will be astonished, and he
will rule over the All." <br />
- The Gospel of Thomas<br />
<br />Serpentrio Arquilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06177056115466970422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422175552614392778.post-61598932657990356882012-04-20T12:50:00.000-07:002012-04-20T12:50:37.675-07:00the apparent separate egoOne of the necessities of "experiencing" Oneness is to "dissolve" twoness.<br />
What is twoness? Self and not-self, subject and object, thinker and thought, etc.<br />
The idea of the individual separate ego is one of the trickiest to unveil, mainly<br />
because we have identified ourselves with this separate ego and try to use it to<br />
unveil itself, which it won't and can't do. Another way we are roped into this<br />
deception is to identify with our thoughts. Let me try to show you, or at least<br />
describe, how this is so. Try to follow this with me - look into yourself. It means<br />
nothing to "understand" this with your reason. You must see it directly.<br />
<br />
Answer this question: who are you?<br />
<br />
Okay. Don't go too far with that. What I really want you to see is that when you<br />
endeavor to answer this question, or any question, you begin <em>thinking</em>. What is<br />
thinking? It is presently filing or searching through your memories, your knowledge.<br />
Memories and knowledge... do you see this is the past? Your knowledge is what you<br />
<em>already</em> know. It is <em>accumulated</em> and <em>stored</em> as memory. You can't think about some-<br />
thing you don't know - you have no word, no image, no impression of it. So when you <br />
are thinking you are accessing the past. This is important to see because it will bring <br />
you to the present and "automatically" or effortlessly undo twoness. We can't undo <br />
twoness because we want to or because it is wrong or bad or by trying to avoid it or<br />
go towards something else... all these ARE twoness. The "wanter" cannot be there!<br />
You cannot have a separate individual will from the Universal Being of what is!<br />
So any effort on your part will result in twoness. Understand? But seeing what is<br />
directly, that all thought is the past for example, is simply noticing the truth, or what<br />
actually is. It is not an effort to change anything. Let's continue.<br />
<br />
So I am endeavoring to point out to you that the ego, or idea of the separate individual<br />
self as a consistent and continuous being (which is how we think of ourselves - stringing<br />
our past memories together into an apparent continuous being who has learned, grown<br />
and changed, but is essentially still "me"... a linear personal history from birth to present,<br />
point A to point B, two very distinct and unrelated points separated by time and space,<br />
yet "magically" <em>associated</em> by memory-knowledge-the past; a past that only exists in our<br />
minds, in our memories, kept "alive" by our <em>re</em>-member-ing. "Re" meaning "done again",<br />
i.e. not new. Is it any wonder that we age when we are rarely ever new, due to continuous<br />
thinking and association/identification with dead past thoughts? Ok, let me try to continue<br />
again.) ...so this idea (and I intend for you to see directly that it is indeed an <em>idea</em> and not<br />
an actual entity) of the separate self/ego is composed of thought, of memory, of knowledge,<br />
of association. Here is what I really want to reveal to you - a great secret and mystery and<br />
tragedy and usurping of spirit: you/we think that you are the thinker having thoughts, as if<br />
you are in control, as if you are the subject, the entity. But watch and see for yourself - <br />
<u>thought has <em>objectified itself</em> as the thinker</u>! You really don't exist.<br />
<br />
Forgive me for what I have said. This place is terrible! <br />
But it is said that "fear/awe is the beginning of knowledge, and fools despise wisdom and <br />
instruction." - Proverbs 1:7<br />
<br />
Have we not been fools/fooled by our worship of knowledge?<br />
You who claim to love wisdom/chokmah/sophia/sapientia... Isis has never been unveiled<br />
by a mortal! Don't you know you - the illusory idea of the thinker/ego/self - must die to see<br />
Her? Don't you know that Her veil is <u>you</u>? Your apparent existence - "I think, therefore I am" -<br />
is Her death. Your death is Her life. She ate of the tree of knowledge (now do you understand<br />
knowledge?) and was exiled from "the Garden". If you wish to return, you must exile knowledge<br />
to regain (the tree of) Life ("Eve" means "living"; not dead like knowledge). <br />
But you cannot force this exile! You simply see it as the truth; you simply cease seeing/believing<br />
the illusion.<br />
<br />
May the All-One shine Its Grace upon you.<br />
<br />Serpentrio Arquilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06177056115466970422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422175552614392778.post-73330803690845417332012-01-31T00:35:00.000-08:002012-01-31T00:35:43.562-08:00corroborating postI posted this back in July:<br />
<a href="http://serpentrioarquila.blogspot.com/2011/07/alchemical-meanderings.html#comment-form">http://serpentrioarquila.blogspot.com/2011/07/alchemical-meanderings.html#comment-form</a><br />
<br />
I tried to relay the three principles as axis of a cube or three dimensions using the<br />
glyphs of nitre, salt and gold.<br />
<br />
Anyway, today I came across this. It does a better job conveying what i wanted to say. :)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.alchemylab.com/quantum2.htm">http://www.alchemylab.com/quantum2.htm</a>Serpentrio Arquilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06177056115466970422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422175552614392778.post-81714013219090318262012-01-30T22:29:00.000-08:002012-01-30T22:29:59.792-08:00the art of being humanI've been thinking a lot about what a human being is.<br />
We don't meet many humans anymore - it is always the personality, <br />
the ego, the mask - some adjusted, corrected, PC version of oneself.<br />
Does this hiding and protecting really benefit us?<br />
Surely there is another human in everyone we meet that is just like us.<br />
None of us is that different that our darkness or shadow is not the same<br />
darkness in others. Why hide this sameness and flaunt our other sameness,<br />
the sameness of lies/masks?<br />
There'd be a lot less judgement in the world if we agreed not to censor ourselves.<br />
Once you've seen the pure and simple human being, it becomes very tedious and<br />
effortful to lie, to constantly embellish some edited version of yourself. <br />
It really uses a lot of energy which could be being applied elsewhere.<br />
<br />
If you've forgotten what an unmasked human being looks like, you may want to<br />
check out the first part of this documentary on a "wild child" named Genie.<br />
Notice how everyone is drawn to her. IMO, it's because she's a real person with no<br />
pretense and we crave connecting with real people.<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEnkY2iaKis">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEnkY2iaKis</a>Serpentrio Arquilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06177056115466970422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422175552614392778.post-29504132955121742682011-12-12T12:08:00.000-08:002011-12-13T00:04:01.392-08:00A stretching exercise :)I believe I've written about the upside-down tree and the hanging man before.<br />
In a way, this is related - how upside-down and inside-out and backwards <br />
we have things.<br />
<br />
It is a common view, I believe, that one is a spirit and/or soul trapped inside a body.<br />
Is it not more accurate that the body is inside of spirit?<br />
<br />
Or, if you prefer, not a consciousness inside a body, but the body is inside consciousness.<br />
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How does that feel for you? Big difference, huh. :)<br />
<br />
Another exercise:<br />
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<img height="205" id="il_fi" src="http://paulgoddard.co.uk/tuition/resources/mathematics/geometry/circle_radius.gif" style="padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="446" /><br />
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Let's call the center spirit/mercury, the radius an individual soul/sulphur and where<br />
the radius touches the circumference we'll call body/salt.<br />
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When we withdraw awareness from the manifest circumference and go within to the<br />
center, we can then realise the all:<br />
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<img alt="" class="rg_hi" data-height="226" data-width="223" height="226" id="rg_hi" src="https://encrypted-tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQj9xicwcy2h6oQy9sGzpS_CDvTKHKz6bOcmt001N7IktOD7iYU" style="height: 226px; width: 223px;" width="223" /><br />
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Your center is the All-center. Mercury is One. Your source is the One source of All.<br />
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To be clear, the exercise is to return to the One center and then creep back towards<br />
manifestation as the All, following All radii instead of just your one personal individual radius.Serpentrio Arquilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06177056115466970422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422175552614392778.post-13790075625735262662011-12-12T11:52:00.000-08:002011-12-12T11:52:06.856-08:00power, strength, virtue...I think about words alot. I've often thought of making a blog<br />
just for words that i find interesting. <br />
<br />
Potent means powerful; consider potential:<br />
po·ten·tial/pəˈtenCHəl/<br />
Adjective: Having or showing the capacity to develop into <br />
something in the future. <br />
<br />
Noun: Latent qualities or abilities that may be developed and <br />
lead to future success or usefulness. <br />
<br />
Dynamis (greek) means power, strength; consider dynamic:<br />
dy·nam·ic/dīˈnamik/<br />
Adjective: (of a process or system) Characterized by constant <br />
change, activity, or progress. <br />
<br />
Noun: A force that stimulates change or progress within a system <br />
or process. <br />
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That's interesting, no?<br />
<br />
And then we have a third form of energy/power in the Emerald Tablet:<br />
"Virtus eius integra est si versa fuerit in terram."<br />
"Its <strong>power</strong> is whole <em>if it is turned into earth</em>."<br />
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If you figure out how these three relate, let me know. :)Serpentrio Arquilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06177056115466970422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422175552614392778.post-22017225002940065482011-12-08T11:04:00.000-08:002011-12-08T11:19:50.366-08:00Fleeing Mercury and approaching SilenceTrying to capture our fugitive is like trying to approach silence, which is like trying<br />
to make two similar poles of two magnets touch - they just keep repelling.<br />
Our volatile Mercury is diffused throughout all of creation. In concentrating/fixing it <br />
there is a reciprocating volatilization of creation and the simultaneous diffusion of<br />
the alchemist/ego from word into silence.<br />
Consider that silence cannot be approached; the very motion of the <em>approachee </em><br />
"towards" silence is a disturbance/vibration/sound. Silence/Mercury is what remains<br />
when the subject-object relationship collapses/enfolds/implodes. It is the triumphant/<br />
victorious One; always the "last man standing".<br />
In the same way "new" is never "old". New can never be known; to know it is to <br />
make it old. New cannot be grasped by the mind/knowledge which is always old/<br />
past/accumulated. Why put new wine into old wineskins?<br />
Consider likewise that the Philosophical Mercury is not made manifest by a process<br />
of accumulation, but appears spontaneously, miraculously. The best chemists can think <br />
about how to accomplish this and never know it.Serpentrio Arquilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06177056115466970422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422175552614392778.post-50208698171763834652011-12-07T12:08:00.000-08:002011-12-07T12:08:35.114-08:00stalking you?"Australian Aborigines say that the big stories - the stories worth telling and retelling, <br />
the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life - are forever stalking the right <br />
teller, sniffing and tracking like predators." - Robert Moss, "Dreamgates"<br />
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<br />
<br />
To me, this is a fascinating observation. It inspires me to make myself available for<br />
such "big stories" - the bigger picture, the larger vision, initiation, genius. When your <br />
story finds you, life is wonderful, the spirit is joyful - everything seems to go right.<br />
This "big story", which is you - what some call the higher self, is stalking you like a<br />
bird of prey, or a dove of peace if you prefer :) "Knock, and the door shall be opened."<br />
<br />
There are interesting parallels with the Shekinah of Judaism and Kabbalah:<br />
"Every bird nests [<i>shekhinot</i>] with its kind, and man with his like." Talmud Baba Kammah <br />
<br />
The Talmud reports that the Shekinah is what caused prophets to prophesy and King <br />
David to compose his Psalms. The Shekinah manifests itself as a form of joy, connected <br />
with prophecy and creativity. - Talmud Pesachim <br />
<br />
Shekinah is also the Sabbath bride.Serpentrio Arquilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06177056115466970422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422175552614392778.post-75517087045070562412011-12-06T21:54:00.000-08:002011-12-06T21:54:00.034-08:00Castaneda's immense contribution<img alt="" class="rg_hi" data-height="318" data-width="158" height="318" id="rg_hi" src="https://encrypted-tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQadfAvacC_rt8SFX4gcY2G8hiK72-F_OlHJbBxsThQJQk_4SMI" style="height: 318px; width: 158px;" width="158" /><br />
<br />
I can't quantify the number of times that my own experiences have been confirmed by Castaneda's<br />
writings, or how well they supplement the systems of others. His amazing ability to describe the<br />
energetic realms is unsurpassed IMO. The lessons have an amazing practicality about them. It is rare<br />
to find such a complete (relatively) system. The books are written with a power that initiates the reader<br />
as a true apprentice. I would encourage everyone to read them. If you think you've read them, read them<br />
again!Serpentrio Arquilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06177056115466970422noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422175552614392778.post-87225098427299811842011-12-06T18:35:00.000-08:002011-12-06T18:35:43.560-08:00information, exformation, transformationA tip of the hat to my favorite Philosopher, Steven Harrison:<br />
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Information is what we know.<br />
Exformation is everything else.<br />
Transformation is the continuous impression of exformation upon information, and its assimilation.<br />
<img height="180" id="il_fi" src="http://bonkbonk.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/hypercube-rotation.gif" style="padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="180" /><br />
Can you see the relation to the hypercube? Is this not the serpent shedding its skin?<br />
Do you see the application to the crucified serpent?<br />
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<img alt="" class="rg_hi" data-height="215" data-width="234" height="215" id="rg_hi" src="https://encrypted-tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRs2SIe3RjrRPdGDEcVDnh80E7WICSeVBK5MKGRhq9TROydZ18b" style="height: 215px; width: 234px;" width="234" /><br />
<br />
And this one says the same thing, one circle penetrating another = vesica pisces, fish/mercury/Christos:<br />
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<img alt="" class="rg_hi" data-height="194" data-width="259" height="194" id="rg_hi" src="https://encrypted-tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTq8KoHdb_XDJ92zHsRJtjW3rPCd9ibOoqOmfXkg9zTTCz1dvX1xw" style="height: 194px; width: 259px;" width="259" /><br />
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<br />
"The exformation is always going to be overwhelming. It's always going to be experienced<br />
by this information as fear, because it's always going to be vastly greater than the information.<br />
We could say that fear is a portal to the exformation, the vastness, which is washing down<br />
river and pushing. And what we tend to do, what the thought structure does, is try to cover our<br />
heads and hold back the flow."<br />
<br />
"It's always going to be experienced by this information as fear, because it's always going to be <br />
vastly greater than the information":<br />
<img alt="" class="rg_hi" data-height="185" data-width="272" height="185" id="rg_hi" src="https://encrypted-tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSV9IarILGnGo0gABA-5Xm5DV9F4GyV85X5JLG_yA8epob-cOSg" style="height: 185px; width: 272px;" width="272" /><br />
<br />
"We could say that fear is a portal to the exformation, the vastness, which is washing down<br />
river and pushing": <br />
<img alt="" class="rg_hi" data-height="194" data-width="259" height="194" id="rg_hi" src="https://encrypted-tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS-6lzofS0axHuOpNCyev7Wo1C6KUrTQU82X7VMJ0yX8ChHKJ6S" style="height: 194px; width: 259px;" width="259" />Serpentrio Arquilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06177056115466970422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422175552614392778.post-77244963026784512772011-12-06T15:40:00.000-08:002011-12-06T15:40:36.201-08:00Death and AfterlifeI realise I don't post very often. In part this is due to access, but also I am simply <br />
becoming more silent. When we work with the alchemical aether, the vacuum, the <br />
void, dark matter, akasha, etc, space is emphasized. The space between the subatomic <br />
particle-waves seems to grow larger, and hence there is less to say less often. :)<br />
<br />
Ha. "The space between" reminds me of one of my favorite songs. It's quite appropriate<br />
in my mind: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H67uEgRZs2Y">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H67uEgRZs2Y</a><br />
<br />
"The space between what's wrong and right<br />
Is where you'll find me hiding, waiting for you...<br />
Take my hand 'cause we're walking out of here."<br />
<br />
<br />
Death is a subject much neglected, perhaps due to lack of explorers. I would venture to <br />
say that death is as enigmatic as the Philosophers' stone. I would also say that this is <br />
because death IS the Philosophers' stone, by which I mean that the realm or dimension<br />
of death is the realm of aether, i.e. non-physical existence. Castaneda claimed that our<br />
destiny or evolution is to become inorganic beings. It is not unpopular to say that we are<br />
more than our bodies, but how few truly know what that entails. I have said before that <br />
the more life/infinity that we realize, the more we "embody" death/no-thing-ness. Such is<br />
the relationship between the One and the All.<br />
<br />
Anyway, it is not my intention to rehash what has been said, but to share some additional<br />
views and realizations. These are very fresh for me and it will be difficult to find the words<br />
that accompany the visions, but here goes...<br />
It is an uncommon thought to entertain, that life is a preparation for death. Even saying that<br />
now doesn't 'sound right', but that is due to the stigma we have associated with the word 'death'.<br />
It is evident enough that death follows life, but few are willing to go further and say life is<br />
preparation for death. In stark contrast, some hold the view that death is the failure of life. No.<br />
It's really a matter of the degree of awareness/consciousness one can bring to life and death.<br />
There are societies that see reincarnation as an unconscious loop, the fate of sleepers. Hence<br />
Plato and soma sema: "We are dead and the body (soma) is a tomb (sema)". So I am not alone<br />
if I view this life as a preparation to die well/successfully. :) That could lead to a very long post<br />
visiting all sorts of Mystery religions. Let me just leave you with the Egyptian version of weighing<br />
one's heart/soul against a feather (of truth) and we'll move on.<br />
<br />
I recently saw how unprepared I am to die, which startled me because I thought I was accruing<br />
some experience in this area. I wish to relay to you just how rooted we are in this physical<br />
interpretation, and how frightening it can be to lose your grasp on what you have thought was<br />
reality for so many years. I do not equate the two ideas of dying peacefully and dying successfully.<br />
One can have a peaceful dream, a peaceful belief which satisfies and comforts. But I say "beware<br />
the comfort; beware the known". If your death leads you to something familiar, it is not a successful<br />
death, unless no-thing-ness is familiar to you. The fear of the unknown is an essential ingredient of<br />
hell. Indeed, hell is trying to maintain your grasp on what you have known. Hell is dying unprepared.<br />
Hell is realizing that manifest life was supposed to be more than a vacation from unmanifest death. :)<br />
This reminds me of the short fable where the ants prepare for winter and the grasshopper doesn't.<br />
<a href="http://www.bartleby.com/17/1/36.html">http://www.bartleby.com/17/1/36.html</a><br />
<br />
I also saw how the desire to be grounded in something, to have fixity, leads the afterlife awareness <br />
back to a body. I had been aware of the description where the entity that is waiting to be born is aware <br />
of the parents and such. Some even suggest that we choose our parents. But the experience I had was<br />
not like that. It was a more primal consciousness that was not aware of humans at all or even such a<br />
human possibility. It was simply force and energy and desire to have fixity/stability which magnetically<br />
drew the awareness to a place in infinity where this could occur, and that may happen to be the cells which <br />
are dividing inside a human womb. That is how the primordial soup comes into manifestation. That some<br />
awareness may choose its parents is certainly possible, and indicative of some degree of retained awareness,<br />
i.e. preparation. And this is the whole of alchemy - solve et coagula, volatility and fixity, desire and being/essence.<br />
(a funny synchronicity - my Dad is playing music and the song "Higher Love" is on and the lyric was:<br />
"<span class="st">I could light the night up with my soul on fire. I could make the sun shine from pure desire.")</span><br />
<br />
<span class="st">Well, I'll leave this thread with the suggestion that you give some thought to preparation for death, the 99%</span><br />
<span class="st">unmanifest realms. Alchemy begins with a death. The depiction in the Matrix movie of the atrophy of Neo's </span><br />
<span class="st">awakened body due to not having been used is very apropos. Consider preparation. Do not assume that when</span><br />
<span class="st">one dies there is automatic access to the subtle bodies. These must be exercised prior to death. </span><br />
<span class="st">How do you do that? </span><span class="st">Don't wait until winter like the grasshopper to contemplate such essentials.</span><br />
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<span class="st">Blessed be. :)</span>Serpentrio Arquilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06177056115466970422noreply@blogger.com0