I’ve written before about the Inner Critic, the run amok judgmental part of our psyche called the superego.
This holiday season give the inner critic a rest. Practice Random Acts of Blindness toward others and yourself.
Turn a deaf ear and a blind eye to a situation or two where that pesky critical part wants to start raging on about.
In the spirit of the Holidays, give the gift that keeps on giving – Kindness.
Huichol – A Shamanic people from Mexico
“In Huichol, the term “nierika” refers to a portal between so-called ordinary and non-ordinary realities. It is a passage way and at the same time a barrier between two worlds. Nierika, a decorated ceremonial disk, is also said to mean mirror as well as the face of the deity” – Hofman & Schultes
Quetzalcoatl is a great mythical figure evoking wisdom and civilization and is also one of the most ubiquitous and changeable of characters. One of his qualities is to be reborn during each period of history, but with a different face each time around. He always retains the halo of the ancestral aura but also possesses new meanings and a psychic charge that intermingles present yearnings with reverberations from the past.
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You are intimate with yourself when you’re simply being where you are. – A.H. Almaas
Golden Mean – The Golden Spiral is a mystical shape that is an absolute in both abstract mathematics and chaotic nature. It was first discovered by Pythagoras in the 5th century B.C. The spiral is derived via the golden rectangle, a unique rectangle which has the golden ratio. When squared, it leaves a smaller rectangle behind, which has the same golden ratio as the previous rectangle. The squaring can continue indefinitely with the same result. No other rectangle has this trait. When you connect a curve through the corners of these concentric rectangles, you have formed the golden spiral. This shape can be found everywhere in nature: the Nautilus Shell, Ram’s horns, milk in coffee, the face of a Sunflower, your fingerprints, our DNA, and the shape of the Milky Way.
Leonardo da Vinci understood that Man was intended in the proportion of Phi and indeed much of the natural world was Phi based. In the anatomy of Man, the spinal vertebrae are relative to each other in the Phi ratio. The Nautilus shell spirals in the Phi ratio. Plants and trees grow in the Phi ratio. The Earth and Moon have this same relationship. The sunflower is a wonderful example of the spiraling effect of Phi. Look at a pine cone and find the same relationship of Phi…in two directions at the same time.
Leonardo da Vinci invented the scissors. Leonardo da Vinci invented the first parachute long before man was flying. Despite his great scientific and artistic achievement, Leonardo da Vinci was most proud of his ability to bend iron with his bare hands. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time. Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men. — Leonardo da Vinci
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If the doors of perceptions were to be cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinity. – William Blake
The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life. – Wilhelm Reich
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