Open-Secrets

Category: Perceptions

  • The Other Side of the Moon

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    • The Hopi believe the Creator of Man is a woman. The Sumerians believed the Creator of Man was a woman.
    • The Hopi believe the Father Creator is KA. The Sumerians believed the Father Essence was KA.
    • The Hopi believe Taiowa, the Sun God, is the Creator of the Earth. The Sumerians believe TA.EA was the Creator.
    • The Hopi believe Alo to be spiritual guides. The Sumerians believed AL.U to be beings of Heaven.
    • The Hopi believe Kachinas (Kat’sinas) are the spirits of nature and the messengers and teachers sent by the Great Spirit. The Sumerians believed KAT.SI.NA were righteous ones sent of God.
    • The Hopi believe Eototo is the Father of Katsinas. The Sumerians believed EA.TA was the Father of all beings.
    • The Hopi believe Chakwaina is the Chief of Warriors. The Sumerians believed TAK.AN.U was the Heavenly Destroyer.
    • The Hopi believe Akush to be the Dawn Katsina. The Sumerians believed AK.U to be Beings oflight.
    • The Hopi believe Danik to be Guardians in the Clouds. The Sumerians believed DAK.AN to be Sky Warriors.
    • The Hopi believe Sotunangu is a Sky Katsina. The Sumerians believed TAK.AN.IKU were Sky Warriors.
    • The Hopi name for the Pleaides is ChooChookam. The Sumerians believed SHU. SHU.KHEM were the supreme Stars.
    • The Hopi believe Tapuat is the name of Earth. The Sumerians believed Tiamat was the name of Earth.
    • The Hopi call a snake Chu’a. The Sumerians called a snake SHU.
    • The Hopi word for “dead” is Mokee. The Sumerians used KI. MAH to mean “dead.”
    • The Hopi use Omiq to mean above, up. The Sumerians used AM.IK to mean looking to Heaven.
    • The Hopi believe Tuawta is One Who Sees Magic. The Sumerians believed TUAT.U was One from the Other World.

    If you went straight through the Hopi Reservation to the other side of the world, you would come out in Tibet.

    The Tibetan word for sun is the Hopi word for moon, and the Hopi word for sun is the Tibetan word for moon.

    Image by: Marcus Wittl

  • Ignorance is a Rut in the Path to Enlightenment

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    So, we’re seeing here that the most elementary, most external requirement for growth is the willingness to let go of what you believe should happen, what you believe things should be, what you believe will make you happy.   –   A.H. Almaas

    How many ways are there to express ignorance or stubbornness? How often do we find these two traits in the same person?

    Very few people are capable of learning physics, chemistry or any other advance subject on their own. Few would even attempt to do so. It’s common sense to seek guidance and instruction when delving into something complex or subtle.

    It’s interesting how many of us, on the spiritual path, think we can do it on our own. I’m not talking religion, dogma or doctrine here. I’m talking about one of the most complex and subtle realms of exploration one can engage. And yet, many of us believe we can do it ourselves – we believe we know what direction we need to go. When it comes to inner growth, everyone all of a sudden seems to be a class-a psychic.

    Freud proved that ego is first and foremost a defensive structure, a coping mechanism. It is a universal phenomenon that the mind that the ordinary person identifies with is fundamentally a “groove machine.” It keeps running in the same circles and will continue to do so even when we believe we are going in a different direction.

    That’s why it usually takes a great deal of suffering or something radical to wake us up. The ordinary mind is not going to leave its rut until it becomes so painful that change is not an option.

    Think this is not so? The biggest rut is believing that we are separate individuals. The number of people challenging or giving up this fantasy are few indeed.

  • Evolution

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    Think of the tremendous labor of all living forms to have finally arrived at you, the ultimate child of the planet. They did their work; now you do yours! Plunge into the work of living as surprise becomes aware of itself. You are the essence of surprise, the heart and core of play. Show yourself as truly as you can, and you will in that moment shine with the freedom and frolic and fecundity of creative play. – Brian Swimme

    Universal peace as a result of cumulative effort through centuries past might come into existence quickly – not unlike a crystal that suddenly forms in a solution which has been slowly prepared. – Nikola Tesla

    Image by Jim Warren

  • Time

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    “Time is carving you…,let yourself be shaped according to your true nature.” – Master Po

    This is it, you’ve only got one shot, and it’s already started” – Roger Waters


    For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.  –  Marshall McLuhan


    Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. – Jorge Luis Borges


    “Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”  – Frank Zappa


    Everyday it seems like I wake up with a full day ahead of me. In fact, like many, I think I have more to do than hours in the day. Rarely do I wake up and approach the day as a precious gift.


    I take the days for granted. Each day could be my last, but I live like there will be many more. I am more appreciative of experiences and people than I am of time, yet time holds them all.


    I can easily recall times when I wished time would speed up, slow down or stop altogether. I like the image above – human lifes dropping through the hourglass.


    The gravity of time is pulling as all toward the timeless.


    Image – Berkus.net

  • Meaning

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    Meaning is not something we can get to with our minds;
    it is not an answer found in the mind. – A. H. Almaas

    All my life I have been seeking
     Answers, insight, understanding, meaning
    I have never been able to be here
     I haven’t been here for a second
    My mind thinks about being here
     So it’s not, it’s elsewhere

    Poor creature, water runs downhill!
     Here will fill you up
    For a thousand years after
     You can blabber on and on
    And never empty the well

    I tell you
    My heart finally let my mind
    Taste an atom of its sweetness
    Where it went, I do not know
    But it isn’t here

  • What is Relevant?

    Relevant

    The word ‘relevant’ derives from a verb ‘to relevate’, which has dropped out of common usage, whose meaning is ‘to lift’ (as in ‘elevate’). In essence, ‘to relevate’ means ‘to lift into attention’, so that the content thus lifted stands out ‘in relief’. When a content lifted into attention is coherent or fitting with the context of interest, i.e., when it has some bearing on the context of the relationship to it, then one says that this content is ‘relevant’; and of course, when it does not fit in this way, it is said to be ‘irrelevant’.

    Zen . . . does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.  – Alan Watts

    Moving Mind
    Two men were arguing about a flag flapping in the wind.
    “It’s the wind that is really moving,” stated the first one.
    “No, it is the flag that is moving,” contended the second.
    A Zen master, who happened to be walking by, overheard the debate and interrupted them.
    “Neither the flag nor the wind is moving,” he said, “It is MIND that moves.”

    How relevant is ones life or experience? Where is our attention? Much of the mind’s day is spent in constant chatter while attention is unfocused. This results in blurred perception, dumbed-down experience, and lack of relevance.

    Image by Robert Venosa

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