Ultimately, the desire for meaning and significance is a search for identity. — A.H. Almaas
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The Dancing Cry Of The Soul
Love is the dancing cry of the soul, calling the body to worship
Like a shining whirlpool, or a spinning mayfly
So is love among the skies.I leap across the mountaintops, madly singing the song of all songs
I float through the ether, intoxicated, thrilled
I think only of your love, your calling to me
And I dance the thousand dances of love, all returning to you.It is not the play of children, nor the detached unity of wise sages
Unreal! Unnecessary!
Where is the beauty?When I, like a glowing comet, may flash around your sun
Laughing, singing, with the joy of loving you!Wine makes drunk the mind and body
But it is love which thrills the soul
When I approach you, I feel the mad pounding of love
The singing wonder
The joy which opens blossoms on the trees of the world.Come to me, and I shall dance with you
In the temples, on the beaches, through the crowded streets
Be you man or woman, plant or animal, slave or free
I shall show you the brilliant crystal fires, shining within
I shall show you the beauty deep within your soul
I shall show the path beyond Heaven.Only dance, and your illusions will blow in the wind
Dance, and make joyous the love around you
Dance, and your veils which hide the Light
Shall swirl in a heap at your feet. -
Heart Space
I’m attending an intensive 10 day retreat on space/emptiness/absence. It is intense. Yesterday, we were exploring absence – non-being, the aspect of reality that underlies all manifestation of reality.
There are many levels and gradations of space leading to the void, emptiness, sunyata and ultimately – absence.
Last night, someone in a more social context said to me – Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder. I couldn’t help but reflect on this phrase from the more traditional meaning – The lack of something increases the desire for it.
Origin: The Roman poet Sextus Propertius gave us the earliest form of this saying in Elegies:
Always toward absent lovers love’s tide stronger flows.
The contemporary version appears first as the title of an anonymous English poem in 1602. It wasn’t until the 19th century that the phrase began to be used more widely, with Thomas Haynes Bayly’s (1797-1839) song Isle of Beauty, published posthumously in 1850:
Absence makes the heart grow fonder, Isle of Beauty, Fare thee well!
In the context of the work on absence and emptiness my thought is this:
The experience of absence is beyond any concept of self, there is no self to observe the experience of absence. In fact, there is nothing to observe. Not nothing in the sense that there is empty, vaccuous space. Nothing in the sense that no-thing exists – even emptiness. The effect of this on the heart seems to be more clarity, more pristine capacity for the heart to be it’s very nature.
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Schumann Resonance – Gaia’s Brain Wave
In the 1930s physicist Heinrich Schumann discovered a permanent standing wave in the atmosphere, resonating between the Earth’s surface and the ionosphere. This wave, known as the Schumann Resonance, Gaia’s brain wave” or simply the Earth Wave, is fed by lightning discharges and the planet’s internal electromagnetic activity. By a rather stunning coincidence, its frequency fluctuates slowly between 9 and 12 cycles per second – right in the heart of the human alpha-rhythms range.
The amplitude (i.e. intensity) of the Schumann resonance is, however, not constant, and appears to be extremely dependent upon tropical (and hence global) temperature. Indeed preliminary results seem to indicate that a mere one degree increase in temperature seems to be correlated with a doubling of the Schumann resonance.
Like waves on a string, they are not present all the time, but have to be ‘excited’ to be observed. They are not caused by anything internal to the Earth, its crust or its core. They seem to be related to electrical activity in the atmosphere, particularly during times of intense lightning activity. They occur at several frequencies, specifically 7.8 (strongest), 14, 20, 26, 33, 39 and 45 (weakest) Hertz, with a daily variation of about ± 0.5 Hertz. So long as the properties of Earth’s electromagnetic cavity remains about the same, these frequencies remain the same. Presumably there is some change due to the solar sunspot cycle as the Earth’s ionosphere changes in response to the 11-year cycle of solar activity. .
Depending on your perspective, living beings either evolved in this natural electromagnetic environment or were created with Divine Intelligence to live in harmony with it. One thing is certain: Since life began, the Earth has been surrounding all living things with this natural frequency pulsation. Many experts believe that the wide spectrum of artificial man-made EMF radiation masks the natural beneficial frequency of the Earth. Electro pollution may cause us to feel more stressed, fatigued and “out of balance.” Laboratory research has shown that exposing living cells to the Schumann Resonance had the effect of “protecting” them from ambient EMFs, allowing the cells to increase their immune protection, and decrease the absorption of depression-inducing chemicals. Some researchers believe that by producing a 7.83 Hz pulse with a field generator, we can counter the effects of these irritating man-made fields. By replicating the Earth’s natural rhythm, we may be providing ourselves with a more healthy environment. When the body is grounded properly then all it’s internal systems can function at peak performance and the cells will be up regulated.
Image by James Wappel
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The Guest
Too dark the night
Too bright the sky
To lean upon
The human eye
Eye sees this world
Eye says it’s so
I fool myself
And claim to know
Know subtle truths
Know what’s most dear
No words I mouth
The heart can hear
Hear gentle breeze
Hear call of soul
Here the longing
Is an empty hole
Hole in the body
Hole in the chest
Whole human hearts
Graced by the Guest
J Harper
When the Guest is being searched for,
it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest that does all the work.
Look at me, and you will see a slave of that intensity.Friend, hope for the Guest while you are alive.
Jump into experience while you are alive!
think…..and think…..while you are alive.
What you call ‘salvation’ belongs to the time before death.If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive,
do you think ghosts will do it after?The idea that the soul will join with the ecstatic
just because the body is rotten — that is all fantasy.
What is found now is found then.The Guest is inside you, and also inside me;
you know the sprout is hidden inside the seed.
We are all struggling; none of us has gone far.
Let your arrogance go, and look around inside.The blue sky opens out farther and farther,
the daily sense of failure goes away,
the damage I have done to myself fades,
a million suns come forward with Light,
when I sit firmly in that world.I hear bells ringing that no one has shaken,
inside “love” there is more joy than we know of,
rain pours down, although the sky is clear of clouds, there are whole rivers of Light.
The universe is shot through in all parts by a single sort of love. -
The Psychodamic Power of Space (Emptiness)
I want my space. You’re in my space. I’m spaced out, you’re spacey. And while I’m at it – give me some space. It appears space is important to us.
In the West, the notion of personal space is important to people. The space we live in, the space around our body and our psychological space are some of the spaces that concern us.
The Buddhist see space (emptiness) as the nature of reality. The average Joe on the street of Mayberry, USA probably doesn’t give too much thought to his body, the street he is walking on, the city he lives in and the planet he lives on as fundamentally being space or emptiness.
Then again, many Buddhists and other spiritual seekers and practitioners may not have an articulated understanding of the psychodynamic power of space and how it affects ego structure.
In his book, The Void – Inner Spaciousness and Ego Structure, A.H. Almaas articulates a very precise understanding of the nature of space (emptiness), its relationship to ego structure, and the function of space for transformation of the soul.
Without the functioning of space, real change and transformation is not possible. The accepted understanding of change involves the application of effort and concepts in a particular direction to produce a desired result. This is not transformation, but more reworking the surface of things.
Space removes the effort, erases the concepts and establishes an orientation to complete openness and allowing. This is the ground for transformation – no concepts, no ideas, no preferences, no positions, no self-image – anything and everything is possible.
Next time you hear the word space – ask yourself – What is this person really saying? If I want my space, what’s that really mean?
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