My Indigo son
had me under his thumb
Ha Ha! NO MORE
Kissing by Alex Grey
Brian May - Too Much Love Will Kill You
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Hieronymus Bosch, outer wings of the "Garden of Delights"
While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Acoustic
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DETERMINATION
Al-Qadr: Makki
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful.
TRULY WE REVEALED it
on the Night of Determination.
2.How will you know what the Night of Determination is?
3.Better is the Night of Determination than a thousand months.
4.On (this night) the angels and grace descend by the dispensation of their Lord, for settling all affairs.
5.It is peace till the dawning of the day.
J.Bohme, Theosophische Wercke, Amsterdam, 1682
Since Vulcan lit the mercurial wheel of anguish into which the soul had imagined itself, "its meaning only stands after the multiplicity of natural things." It is entirely subject to the changeable play of the passions.
The illuminated soul counsels the poor soul to break the bonds of the monstrous snake-husk by introducing it to Christ, the spirit of love, who by becoming flesh, had burst the gates of Hell and thus reopened the way to Paradise.
The Medium is the Message - Marshall McLuhan
Wish I could read all the Harvard Classics in my bookcase (this will never happen). Read too much when I was younger, not so much now. eg., Al-Qur'an: A Contemporary Translation - Ahmed Ali, Stolen Continents: The "New World" Through Indian Eyes, Fire In The Head: Shamanism and the Celtic Spirit - Tom Cowan, The Lost Gospel: The Book of Q & Christian Origins - Burton L. Mack, The Mystery and Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls - Hershel Shanks, The Other Bible: Ancient Alternative Scriptures - edited by Willis Barnstone, Religious Leaders - Jacq Brosse, The Varieties of Religious Experience: William James, Entering The Sacred Mountain: Exploring the Mystical Practices of Judaism, Buddhism, and Sufism - Rabbi David A. Cooper, The Sufis - Idries Shah, The Pagan Christ: Recovering The Lost Light - Tom Harpur, For Christ's Sake - Tom Harpur, People of The Lie: The Hope For Healing Human Evil - M.Scott Peck,MD, The Inferno Of Dante: Bilingual Edition - Robert Pinsky, The History of Hell - Alice K. Turner, The World Treasury of Modern Religious Thought - Jaroslav Pelikan, Holy Fire: Nine Visionary Poets and the Quest for Enlightenment - Daniel Halpern, The Western Canon: The Books And School Of The Ages - Harold Bloom, Zen and the Brain - James H. Austin,MD, Zen Physics - David Darling, Rational Zen: The Mind of Dogen Zenji - Translated Thomas Cleary, Games Zen Masters Play: Classic Zen Texts ... R.H. Blyth, Illusion's Game: The Life and Teaching of Naropa - Chogyam Trungpa, A Flash Of Lightning In The Dark Of Night: A Guide to the Bodhissattva's Way of Life - The Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso), Creation and Completion: Essential Points of Tantric Meditation - Jamgon Kongtrul, The Tibetan Book Of Living And Dying - Sogyal Rinpoche, On Death and Dying - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Compassion: The Key To Great Awakening - Geshe Tsultim Gyeltsen, Being Good: Buddhist Ethics For Everyday Life - Master Hsing Yun, The Tibetan Yogas Of Dream And Sleep - Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Kundalini Yoga - Ravi Singh, The Art Of Tantric Sex - Nitya Lacroix, The Art Of Sexual Magic - Margo Anand, The Complete Kama Sutra: 1st Unabridged Translation - Alain Danielou, The Doors Of Perception - Aldous Huxley, The Hermetic Museum: Alchemy & Mysticism - Alexander Roob, Mysticism: The Preeminent Study In The Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness - Evelyn Underhill, Jung's Seminar On Nietzsche's Zarathustra - edited by James Jarrett, Jung's Psychology and Tibetan Buddhism: Western and Eastern Paths to the Heart - Radmila Moacanin, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious - C.G. Jung, The Clinical Neurobiology of Myofascial Pain - Robert M. Bennett,MD, Myofascial Pain: Trigger Point Management - Edward&Isavel Rachlin, Chronic Myofascial Pain: A Survival Manual - Devin Starlanyl, The Alchemy of Love and Lust - Theresa Crenshaw,MD, The Evolution Of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating - David M. Buss, Ecologists and Environmental Politics: A History of Contemporary Ecology - Stephen Bocking, The Ecology Of Eden - Evan Eisenberg, Alternate Realities: Open Yourself To All Life's Possibilities...The Search for the Full Human Being - Lawrence LeShan, Myths To Live By: How we re-create ancient legends in our daily lives to release human potential - Joseph Campbell, The Power OF Myth - Joseph Campbell, The Venetian's Wife - Nick Bantock, Angels & Insects - A.S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance - A.S. Byatt, Spirituality And Human Nature - Donald Evans, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype - Clarissa Pinkola Estes,PhD, Dictionary of Symbolism: Cultural Icons and the Meanings Behind Them - Hans Biedermann, The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien, Beginnings: The Story of Origins of Mankind, Life, the Earth, the Universe - Isaac Asimov, A Brief History of Time: From The Big Bang To Black Holes - Stephen W. Hawking, The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report - Timothy Ferris, Bear Attacks: Their Causes And Avoidance - Stephen Herrero, Japanese Garden Design - Marc P. Keane, Currently reading Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps And The 10th Dimension - Michio Kaku (at a snail's pace) & The Hillier Gardener's Guide To Trees & Shrubs - beautiful pictures !
2 into 1 neat package ;)
Robbie