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  • The Pearl Beyond Price

    One of my favorite Rumi poems (translated by Coleman Barks – Like This)

    Yesterday at dawn, my Friend said,
    How long will this unconsciousness go on?
    You fill yourself with the sharp pain of Love,
    rather than its fulfillment.

    I said, “But I can’t get to You!
    You are the whole dark night,
    and I am a single candle.
    My life is upsidedown
    because of You!”

    The Friend replied, I am your deepest being.
    Quit talking about wanting Me!

    I said, “Then what is this restlessness?”

    The Friend, Does a drop
    stay still in the Ocean?
    Move with the Entirety, and
    with the tiniest particular.
    Be the moisture in an oyster
    that helps to form one pearl.

    Oyster = ego shell
    Moisture = human vulnerability
    Pearl = real human being

    (click on image to order book)

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  • Love

    love_love

    Love is an existence, not a reaction, not an activity.

    It is not a thought, or an emotion. – A.H. Almaas

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  • Slow Speed Light

    slow speed light geometry

    2/18/99 – Scientists slow light to a crawl

    BOSTON (AP) – Scientists have managed to slow down light so much that if it were a car on a highway, it could get a ticket for not getting over to the right-hand lane. The speed of light is normally about 186,000 miles per second, or fast enough to go around the world seven times in the wink of eye. Scientists succeeded in slowing it down to 38 mph. They did this by shooting a laser through extremely cold sodium atoms, which worked like “optical molasses” to slow the light down. While slow-speed light now is just a laboratory plaything for top physicists, Lene Vestergaard Hau, the Danish scientist who led the project, said practical applications could be a few years away. She envisions improved communications technology, switches, even night-vision devices.

    As far as I can determine, there has been no further public news on this since the announcement in 1999. Seems a little unusual given the fantastic nature of this feat.

    Slowing down is mentioned often in spiritual, martial arts and other physical disciplines. In a world full of compulsive acting out, adrenaline and stimulus addiction, and ADDHD – slowing down might be just the ticket to a saner brighter world.

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  • Primal Mind

    primal mind space swan

    It is vain to do with more what can be done with less. – William of Occam

    To the primal mind truth is not inclusive but essential. In folk literature the “truth” is made up of what lies at the bottom of various events of a perpetual now, while to the Western mind the “truth” is everything that makes up a chronological succession of events.

    It is this temporal revelation which lies at the farthest alcome of the Indian visionary’s mind; it is this immediacy which proclaims the preciousness of the instant, the ever-changing, ever modulating Indian moment that is a perpetual Now.

    The primal mind knows space experientially. This affective relationship with space of the primal person, however, does not limit his experience to pragmatic spatial actions, for he sees space as the sacred theatre of his life and the ritual umbilical cord that forever connects him to his divine parent, the Earth. – Primal Mind, by Jamake Highwater

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  • Light Vision

    light vision

    If light and vision are associated, .. then all things illuminated by the sun may in some sense be seen by it. The sun in many cultures is called an eye. In Malay, for example, the word for the sun is ‘mata hari’, ‘the eye of the day’. On the great seal of the United States, shown on every dollar bill, there is the Egyptian symbol of the Eye of Horus – the radiant eye – the sun – both a seeing eye and an emitter of light.

    A whole new science has recently sprung up called Helioseismology. It can be observed that the Sun vibrates, rather like a bell. It is presently believed that solar resonances are propagated acoustically from the Sun’s core.

    Image by Peter Sharpe

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  • I

    Friends
    before you is a madman
    listen, not to his words
    they are lies
    and he, a greater liehow arrogant his quest
    these many many years
    thinking to find himself
    and something greater
    far beyond
    thoughts and wild imaginings
    he thought it brave and bold
    to laugh at death
    and pain and sorrow
    the human condition
    while chasing elusiveness
    he strayed
    to far beyond

    listen, not to his words
    they are lies
    and he, a greater lie
    before you
    is a madman

    friends
    it was he who demanded
    and gave permission
    to be fooled
    he thought to find himself
    and something greater
    he said “anything – anything
    take me beyond
    all
    beyond”
    it was he who hung himself
    his madness his creation
    how was he to know
    that beyond light’s blush
    and the moaning wind
    lay the slayer of all sanity
    while chasing elusiveness
    he strayed
    too far beyond
    where stillness and silence
    steal you from yourself
    and being no where
    and no thing
    that Presence
    soft as finest down
    faint as a still breeze
    touches one
    so very very gently
    in a place
    so very very hidden
    all hope of sanity dies
    this touch remembers
    recognizes
    awakens to itself
    listen, not to his words
    they are lies
    and he, a greater lie
    before you
    is a madman

    friends
    returning to this world
    of idiots and imbeciles
    they say, “relax, you’re too intense
    surrender, God’s will be done”
    is insanity
    how, can one surrender
    when one is not
    who, can scratch an itch
    that is not
    where can one prepare for
    what is not
    can any formula mandate grace

    ego Ifriends
    I am a madman
    living in insanity
    where the only road back
    is to expose all the lies
    and I
    is the greatest lie of all

    listen, not to these words
    they
    are all
    lies.

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