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Category: Perceptions

  • Ballet of Life

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    The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery. – Francis Bacon

    Early precursors to ballets were lavish court entertainments of Renaissance Italy. The first ballet for which a complete score has survived was performed in Paris in 1581. Professional dancers first appeared in the mid-1600s. Court ballet reached its peak during the reign (1643-1715) of Louis XIV, whose title the Sun King was derived from a role he danced in a ballet. Many ballets presented at his court were created by Italian-French composer Jean Baptiste Lully and French choreographer Pierre Beauchamp, who is said to have defined the five positions of the feet.

    Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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  • Transformation

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    True understanding has to do with transformation. If there is no transformation at the moment of understanding, then there is no real understanding . – A.H. Almaas

    Last night, I heard A.H. Almaas give a talk on transformation. He began the talk by saying he had been wondering what was the most transformative experience in his life. His conclusion was – none – experiences do not transform the soul.

    What transforms the soul is staying in touch with what underlies all experience – True Nature. Almaas pointed out that it is easy to get lost in the content of our lives – our experiences. Being in touch with one’s essence needs to be the first priority, the first love.

  • Out of Egypt

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    It is interesting to note that the Egyptians made a very elaborate science of collecting, storing, and discharging large amounts of static electricity. Supposedly, a concentrated, ionized “field” would enhance the “psychic ability” of their priests. An example of this technology is the ark of the covenant and tabernacle described in the book of exodus. Or the rituals described in the book of the dead.

    The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent. The difference between stupid and intelligent people–and this is true whether or not they are educated — is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. They are not baffled by ambiguous or even contradictory situations–in fact, they expect them and are apt to be suspicious when things seem overly straightforward. – Neal Stephenson, “The Diamond Age”

  • Identity

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    Ultimately, the desire for meaning and significance is a search for identity. — A.H. Almaas

  • Schumann Resonance – Gaia’s Brain Wave

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    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.


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  • Real or Surreal

    Surrealism

    For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception  to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.   –Friedrich Nietzsche

    Everything leads us to believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imaginary, past and present, the communicable and the incommunicable, the high and the low, cease to be perceived as contradictions…” –      André Breton


    The surrealist movement was launched in 1923 – the year James Joyce, after making cryptic notes for several months, finally wrote the first three-page fragment of “Finnegan’s Wake”, and the year Hitler was initiated in the Thule Society, an occult secret society with a paranoid dread of all other occult secret societies, which it claimed were run by Jews and Freemasons – anyway, that year, the First Surrealist Manifesto promised or threatened “total transformation of mind and all that resembles it.” Among the founders was Raymond Roussel, former associate of Aleister Crowley and Father Sauniere in the Hermetic Brotherhood of Light , and among the later recruits was Jean Cocteau, who eventually became 23rd Grand Master of the Priory of Sion.

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