Abraxus

I'd like to meet:

DMT Elves , Dreamers , Myself in dreams , Shulgin , Alex Grey, Robert Butts , J. Rumi.

I am not here to meet people in the physical , but to meet in places our minds can go.

Cacti :

Essential Links
(Will open in new window. )Link Desc Big Thinkers Ummm.... lots of Big Thinkers EroWid "Erowid is founded on the belief that a healthy relationship with psychoactives is one grounded in balance, where use is part of an active, intellectual, physical, and spiritual life" Reality Carnival "News that shatters the ice of our unconscious!" TruthOut The news that is not on CNN or TV The art of David Heskin If you like Alex Grey , you might want to see this too. The art of Jerry Uelsmann ** New -- No Words. RatherGood If you have a trippy sense of humor. Poetry of Rumi A nice tribute to J. Rumi. Get Underground Just go there.... Free Music from Unsigned Artists ...Freedom is good Meta-Religion ...Everything Religion (Thanks Dan.) Fusion Anomaly Start here .... end anywhere. Larry Carlson Mind Candy For 2005. Blue Honey Inner Space Exploration. kahlil gibran - The Prophet The whole book , by chapter. Seth Quotes by Book A huge , well organized collection Nirvikalpa The New Age Library I just discovered! Layne Russel's Poetry Room One of the best undiscovered poets out there. Levity Get lost there. ayahuasca forum Discussions on ayahuasca.....(lots). Zen Osho Tarot Get Readings or view random cards online -
Cards come with great Zen parables. www.nagual.net Holy shit!-
Why didn't someone tell me this was here!. www.island.org Island Map of the Mind A Seth reader maps the conscious mind New World View Want one? Mind Machines Get a Proteus The Astral Pulse Huge Forum on Astral Projection Soma FM Tasty Audio Morsels in lotsa flavors Waka Pacha Murple's Online Community always the home of some interesting discussions. Sign in for lots of areas that don't show up on the public site..... The Daily Enlightenment Be there now..... The Experience Festival Every Spiritual Tradition under one sun. Castenada Someone took really good notes!.....
image links to artist. (Rassouli). Poetry Of Rumi Post and Discuss Rumi Poems

The Seed Market

Can you find another market like this?
Where,
with your one rose you can buy hundreds of rose gardens?
Where,
for one seed
you get a whole wilderness?

For one weak breath,
the divine wind?

You've been fearful
of being absorbed in the ground,
or drawn up by the air.

Now your waterbead lets go
and drops into the ocean,
where it came from.

It no longer has the form it had,
but it's still water.
The essence is the same.
This giving up is not a repenting.
It's a deep honoring of yourself.

When the ocean comes to you as a lover,
marry, at once, quickly,
for Allah's sake!

Don't postpone it!
Existence has no better gift.

No amount of searching
will find this.

A perfect falcon, for no reason,
has landed on your shoulder,
and become yours.

Rumi

translated by Coleman Barks

Music:

Falling Awake parts 1 and 2.

Built to Spill , At The Drive In , Pond , Dream Theater , Rush , Live , Nakai, Douglas Spotted Eagle , System of A Down , Pantera , Rage Against the Machine (Yes.... 'Anger is a gift') , Chopin, Ray Lynch , Rollins Band , Broken Social Scene , Depeche Mode , GBV , Nirvana , DMB, Atmosphere , Modest Mouse , Rush , Tool , Dredg , The Fuzz , Techno / Trance / House , Shpongle , Radiohead , Local Bands , Yes , Classical , New Age, Tori Amos, The Church, The Doors , REM , Alanis , Floyd, Elliot Smith , Bright Eyes , Infected Mushroom , The Cure

Click that or look for Shpongle used on Amazon! Just get it!

Things I am hearing right now.....

'Time makes my days long' - The Fuzz
'I can't go near the ocean with my courage watered down.'- Pond'If I became insane , I'd change the way , I smell perfume because it hurts my brain' - The Fuzz'When I think of Heaven , Deliver me in a black wing bird.' - Counting Crows'Do what it takes to step through' - Tool'It takes a long time , but god dies too - but not before he'll stick it to you.' - Modest Mouse "A Cold and wet November dawn , and there are no barking sparrows .... just emptiness to dwell upon." - The Shins (Young Pilgrims).
"Tell me a story , and please don't let the end be cruel"- The Blue Up *Spool Forka Dish*'though i know that my actions are impossible to justify , they seem adequate to fill up my time ... if I could talk to myself like I was someone else , well , maybe i could take your advise. ' - Bright Eyes'i know a girl who cries when she practices violin , cuz each note sounds so pure , it just cuts into her , and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes , and to me everything else - it just sounds ... like a lie.' - Bright Eyes
"Love will lead us , alright , Love will lead us - she will lead us ...." - Live

'The years have been short , but the days were long....'

'When the Kite lines first crossed , we tied them into knots , .... to finally fly apart , we had to cut them off.'- The Shins 'Say hello to all the apples on the ground , they were once in your eyes , but you sneezed them out while sleeping.
Say hello to everything you left behind , it's even more a part of your life now that you can't touch it. - Perfect Circle (Nurse).

'If you had one more eye , you'd be a cyclops , which explains missing the premise...' - Aesop Rock Listen to Goa-Psy Trance Now :

Movies:

Television:

Only if absolutely needed.

Books:

You can probably already see from my profile some of the authors I am into , but I will list some here.Jane Roberts, Seth, Carlos Castaneda, Don Miguel Ruiz, Alan Watts, Osho, Krishnamurti, Terence Mckenna, Robert Moss, Vonnegut, Hermann Hesse, David Payne, David James Duncan, Rumi
Jane Roberts / Seth
"The self that you know is but one fragment of your entire identity. These fragment selves are not strung together, however, like beads of a string. They are more like the various skins of an onion, or segments of an orange, all connected through one vitality and growing out into various realities while springing from the same source." Session 512, Page 11
"If you have a limited conception of the nature of reality, then your ego will do its best to keep you in the small enclosed area of your accepted reality. If, on the other hand, your intuitions and creative instincts are allowed freedom, then they communicate some knowledge of greater dimensions to this most physically oriented portion of your personality." Session 512, Page 12
"The experiment that would transform your world would operate upon the basic idea that you create your own reality according to the nature of your beliefs, and that all existence was blessed, and that evil did not exist in it. If these ideas were followed individually and collectively, then the evidence of your physical senses would find no contradiction. They would perceive the world and existence as good. This is the experiment that has not been tried, and these are the truths that you must learn after physical death." Session 546, Page 192 (original Prentice-Hall)
"The beliefs that you receive, therefore, are your parents conceptions of the nature of reality. They are given to you through example, verbal communication, and constant telepathic reinforcement. You receive ideas about the world in general and your relationship to it; and from your parents you are also given concepts of what you are. You pick up their ideas of your own reality." Session 619, Page 57
"As it took a while for the unsatisfactory beliefs to become materialized, so it may be a time before you see physical results; but the new ideas will take growth and change your experience as certainly as the old ones did." Session 619, Page 63
"If you can sit quietly and realize that your body parts are replacing themselves constantly -- if you tune your conscious mind into the consideration of such activity -- then you can realize your own state of grace. If you can sense your thoughts steadily replacing themselves then you can also feel your own elegance. You cannot feel guilty and enjoy such recognition, however; not on a conscious level. If you find that you are berating yourself because of something you did yesterday, or ten years ago, you are not being virtuous. You are most likely involved with artificial guilt. Even if a violation occurred, natural guilt does not involve penance. It is meant as a precautionary measure, a reminder before an event." Session 636, Page 152
"As he looks closer, he discovers there is a still-greater masterpiece in which he appears as an artist creating the very same paintings that he begins to recognize. Our artist then realizes that all of the people he painted are also painting their own pictures, and moving about in their own realities in a way that even he cannot perceive. In a flash of insight it occurs to him that he also has been painted -- that there is another artist behind him from whom his own creativity springs, and he also beings to look out of the frame." Session 755, Page 13
"In dreams you are so dumb that you believe there is a commerce between the living and the dead. You are so irrational as to imagine that you sometimes speak to parents who are dead. You are so unrealistic that it seems to you that you visit old houses, long ago torn down, or that you travel in exotic foreign cities that you have actually never visited. In dreams you are so insane you do not feel yourself locked in a closet of time and space, but feel instead as if all infinity but waited your beckoning." Session 758, Page 25
"The unconscious, so-called, is -- and I have said this before -- quite conscious, but in another realm of activity. There must be a psychological chamber between these two portions of the self, however -- these seemingly undifferentiated areas, in which back-and-forth translations can occur. Dream periods provide that service, of course, so that in dreams the two egos can meet and merge to some extent, comparing notes like strangers who perhaps meet on a train at night, and are amazed to discover, after some conversation, that they are indeed close relatives, each embarked upon the same journey through seemingly they traveled alone. In those terms the undifferentiated area is actually filled with motion as psychological transitions and translations are made, until in dreams the two egos often merge into each other - so that sometimes you waken briefly with a sense of elation, or a feeling that in dreams you have met an old and valued friend." Session 822, Page 104
More Quotes and Exercises from the Seth Material.
http://www.nirvikalpa.com/content.php?page=seth3

Carlos Castaneda
"An average man can "grab" the things of the world only with his hands, or his senses, but a sorcerer can grab them also with his will . I cannot really describe how it is done, but you yourself, for instance, cannot describe to me how you hear. It happens that I am also capable of hearing, so we can talk about what we hear, but not about how we hear. A sorcerer uses his will to perceive the world. That perceiving, however, is not like hearing. When we look at the world or when we hear it, we have the impression that it is out there and that it is real. When we perceive the world with our will we know that the world is not as "out there" or as "real" as we think." - A Separate Reality
"The world is indeed full of frightening things and we are helpless creatures surrounded by forces that are inexplicable and unbending. The average man, in ignorance, believes that those forces can be explained or changed; he doesn't really know how to do that, but he expects that the actions of mankind will explain them or change them sooner or later. A sorcerer, on the other hand, does not think of explaining or changing them; instead, he learns to use such forces by redirecting himself and adapting to their direction. That's his trick. There is very little to sorcery once you find out its trick. A sorcerer, by opening himself to knowledge, falls prey to those forces and has only one means of balancing himself, his will ; thus he must feel and act like a warrior. I will repeat this once more: Only as a warrior can one survive the path of knowledge. What helps a sorcerer live a better life is the strength of being a warrior." - A Separate Reality
"Act like a warrior and select the items of your world. You cannot surround yourself with things helter-skelter any longer. I tell you this in a most serious vein. A warrior encounters those inexplicable and unbending forces because he is deliberately seeking them, thus he is always prepared for the encounter. The first thing you must do, then, is be prepared. A warrior takes the responsibility of protecting his life. Then if any of those forces tap him and open his gap, he must deliberately strive to close it by himself. For that purpose he must have a selected number of things that give him great peace and pleasure, things which he can deliberately use to take his thoughts from his fright and close his gap and make him solid. In his day-to-day life a warrior chooses to follow the path with heart. It is the consistent choice of the path with heart which makes a warrior different from the average man. He knows that a path has heart when he is one with it, when he experiences a great peace and pleasure traversing its length. The things a warrior selects to make his shields are the items of a path with heart. You must surround yourself with the items of a path with heart and you must refuse the rest." - - A Separate Reality
"We are all going to die. There is something out there waiting for me, for sure; and I will join it, also for sure. Use it. Focus your attention on the link between you and your death, without remorse or sadness or worrying. Focus your attention on the fact you don't have time and let your acts flow accordingly. Let each of your acts be your last battle on earth. Only under those conditions will your acts have their rightful power. Otherwise they will be, for as long as you live, the acts of a timid man. There is no time for timidity, simply because timidity makes you cling to something that exists only in your thoughts. It soothes you while everything is at a lull, but then the awesome, mysterious world will open its mouth for you, as it will open for every one of us, and then you will realize that your sure ways were not sure at all. Being timid prevents us from examining and exploiting our lot as men." - Journey to Ixtlan
"The instant one begins to live like a warrior, one is no longer ordinary. It is meaningless to complain. What's important from this point on is the strategy of your life. You may go any place you wish, but if you do, you must assume the full responsibility for that act. A warrior lives his life strategically. When he has to act with his fellow men, a warrior follows the doing of strategy, and in that doing there are no victories or defeats. In that doing there are only actions. The doing of strategy entails that one is not at the mercy of people." -- Journey to Ixtlan

Hermann Hesse
“There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.” - Hesse
"You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, single power, a single salvation... and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else." - Hesse
"…So that's it, thought I. They've disfigured this good old wall with an electric sign. Meanwhile I deciphered one or two of the letters as they appeared again for an instant; but they were hard to read even by guess work, for they came with very irregular spaces between them and very faintly, and then abruptly vanished. Whoever hoped for any result from a display like that was not very smart. He was a Steppenwolf, poor fellow. Why have his letters playing on this old wall in the darkest alley of the Old Town on a wet night with not a soul passing by, and why were they so fleeting, so fitful and illegible? But wait, at last I succeeded in catching several words on end. They were:
MAGIC THEATER
ENTRANCE NOT FOR EVERYBODY
I tried to open the door, but the heavy old latch would not stir. The display too was over. It had suddenly ceased, sadly convinced of its uselessness. I took a few steps back, landing deep into the mud, but no more letters came. The display was over. For a long time I stood waiting in the mud, but in vain.
Then, when I had given up and gone back to the alley, a few colored letters were dropped here and there, reflected on the asphalt in front of me. I read:
FOR MADMEN ONLY!" -- Hesse from 'Steppenwolf'
"But out of all secrets of the river, he today only saw one, this one touched his soul. He saw: this water ran and ran, incessantly it ran, and was nevertheless always there, was always an at all times the same and yet new in every moment! Great be he who would grasp this, understand this! He understood and grasped it not, only felt some idea of it stirring, a distant memory, divine voices." - Hesse, from 'Siddhartha'.
"I'm telling you what I've found. Knowledge can be conveyed, but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it is possible to be carried by it, miracles can be performed with it, but it cannot be expressed in words and taught. This was what I, even as a young man, sometimes suspected, what has driven me away from the teachers. I have found a thought, Govinda, which you'll again regard as a joke or foolishness, but which is my best thought. It says: The opposite of every truth is just as true! That's like this: any truth can only be expressed and put into words when it is one-sided. Everything is one-sided which can be thought with thoughts and said with words, it's all one-sided, all just one half, all lacks completeness, roundness, oneness. When the exalted Gotama spoke in his teachings of the world, he had to divide it into Sansara and Nirvana, into deception and truth, into suffering and salvation. It cannot be done differently, there is no other way for him who wants to teach. But the world itself, what exists around us and inside of us, is never one-sided. A person or an act is never entirely Sansara or entirely Nirvana, a person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful. It does really seem like this, because we are subject to deception, as if time was something real. Time is not real, Govinda, I have experienced this often and often again. And if time is not real, then the gap which seems to be between the world and the eternity, between suffering and blissfulness, between evil and good, is also a deception." -- Hesse, from 'Siddhartha'.

Osho
"So always remember, whatsoever I say to you, you can take it in two ways. You can simply take it on my authority, "Because I say so, it must be true" -- then you will suffer, then you will not grow. Whatsoever I say, listen to it, try to understand it, implement it in your life, see how it works, and then come to your own conclusions. They may be the same, they may not be. They can never be exactly the same because you have a different personality, a unique being. Whatsoever I am saying is my own. It is bound to be in deep ways rooted in me. You may come to similar conclusions, but they cannot be exactly the same. So my conclusions should not be made your conclusions. You should try to understand me, you should try to learn, but you should not collect knowledge from me, you should not collect conclusions from me. Then your mindbody will grow."
~Osho
"Hence, although I go on repeating again and again that you can become a Buddha...in fact you are a Buddha, unaware of the fact. On the circumference maybe there is a great storm, just as on the surface the sea is stormy -- sometimes more, sometimes less, but there are always waves, bigger or smaller; there is always turbulence, disturbance. But at the depth there is not even a ripple: all is silence." - Osho
"We are in control of infinite material power, but we know nothing of the depths of the human heart, we know nothing of the poison and the nectar that lies hidden there, side by side. We know the atomic structure of matter but nothing of the atomic structure of the soul. And this is our great misfortune. We have achieved power, but no peace, no enlightenment.""There is great power in the hands of the unenlightened, of the unawakened. But these are the people who should not be allowed to possess power; if it is misused, power can wreak great evil. Our whole search has been for power. And this is man's mistake. He is in danger from his own achievements, from his own successes. The world's great thinkers and scientists should be made aware of the pitfalls of this preoccupation with the question of power. It is just this sort of blind, thoughtless investigation that has brought us to the brink of the present crisis. The aim should be peace, not power. And if the aim becomes peace, then the focus will be on the mystery of man himself, not into the secrets of nature. There has been much research and exploration into unconscious matter, but the time has come when we must concentrate on man himself, on his mind."
-- Osho (From Truth and Science)
"Twenty-five centuries have passed since Buddha's flame became one with the universal flame. Now you can go on worshipping Buddha, but you will not be, in the real sense, a disciple -- you can't be. The buddha you worship is your own invention, your projection. You will have to find a real buddha, a man who is alive, just as alive as you are, who is in the body, whose flame can help your unlit candle to become lit, whose fire can consume you.
But churches and temples and creeds and dogmas cannot consume you, they cannot make you aflame. They have no fire left. Two thousand years have passed since Christ. You can go on worshipping in the church, but now what you are doing is a kind of social duty. You are not involved in it, your heart is not there. Superficially, on the periphery, you have a label -- Christian, Hindu, Mohammedan -- but behind the labels you are all alike; there is no difference at all.
The first sutra of Buddha says:
The followers of the awakened awake....
Those who are really followers of the awakened are awake. That's the only way to be a follower of the awakened -- to be awake. It is not a question of worship, not a question of respect. It is a question of inner transformation. It is going through inner alchemy." - Osho
More Osho Talks...(lots more)

Heroes:

J. Rumi
“If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don’t abide in borrowed certainty. There is no real certainty until you burn; if you wish for this, sit down in the fire.” Terrence Mckenna
History is ending, because the dominator culture has led the humanspecies into a blind alley. And as the inevitable chaostropheapproaches, people look for metaphors and answers. Every time aculture gets into trouble, it casts itself back into the past lookingfor the last sane moment it ever knew. And the last sane moment weever knew was on the plains of Africa, 15,000 years ago, rocked incradle of the great horned mushroom goddess before history. Beforestanding armies, before slavery and property, before warfare andphonetic alphabets and monotheism. Before, before, before. And this iswhere the future is taking us. Because the secret faith of the 20thcentury is not modernism. The secret faith of the 20th century isnostalgia for the archaic, nostalgia for the Paleolithic, and thatgives us body piercing, abstract expressionism, surrealism, jazz, rockand roll, and Catastrophe Theory. The 20th century mind is nostalgicfor the paradise that once existed on the mushroom-dotted plains ofAfrica, where the plant-human symbiosis occurred that pulled us out ofthe animal body and into the tool-using, culture-making,imagination-exploring creature that we are. - from Alien Dreamtime

And why does this matter? It matters because it chose that the way outis back, and that the future is a forward escape into the past. Thisis what the psychedelic experience means. Its a doorway out of historyand into the wiring under the board in eternity. And I tell you thisbecause if the community understands what it is that holds ittogether, the community will be better able to streamline itself forflight into hyperspace. Because what we need is a new myth. What weneed is a new true story that tells us where were going in theuniverse. And that true story is that the ego is a product ofpathology and that when psilocybin is regularly part of the humanexperience, the ego is suppressed. And the suppression of the egomeans the defeat of the dominators, the materialists, the productpeddlers. Psychedelics return us to the inner worth of the self, tothe importance of feeling immediate experience. And nobody can sellthat to you and nobody can buy it from you, so the dominator cultureis not interested in the felt presence of immediate experience. Butthats what holds the community together. And as we break out of thesilly myths of science and the infantile obsessions of themarketplace, what we discover through the psychedelic experience isthat in the body-- in the body-- there are Niagara of beauty, alienbeauty, alien dimensions that are part of the self, the richest partof life. Five million years ago, we were an animal of some sort. Where will webe five million years from tonight? What we represent is not asideshow, or an epiphenomenon, or an ancillary something-or-other onthe edge of nowhere. What we represent is the nexus of concressentnovelty that has been moving itself together, complexifying itself,folding itself in upon itself, for billions and billions of years.There is, so far as we know, nothing more advanced than what issitting behind your eyes. The human neocortex is the most denselyramified and complexified structure in the known universe. We are thecutting edge of organismic transformation of matter in this cosmos.And this has been going on for awhile. Since the discovery of fire,since the discovery of language, but now, and by now, I mean for thelast 10,000 years, weve been into something new: not geneticinformation, not genetic mutation, not natural selection, butepigenetic activity. Writing, theatre, poetry, dance, art, tattooing,body-piercing, and philosophy. And these things have accelerated theingression into novelty so that we have become an idea-excreting forcein nature that builds temples, builds cities, builds machines, socialengines, plans, and spreads over the earth, into space; into themicrophysical domain; into the macrophysical domain. We, who fivemillion years were animals, can kindle in our deserts and if necessaryupon the cities of our enemies, the very energy which lights the starsat night. Now, something peculiar is going on here. Something is calling us outof nature and sculpting us in its own image. And the confrontationwith this something is now not so far away. This is what the impendingapparent end of everything actually means. It means that thedenouement of human history is about to occur and is about to berevealed as a universal process of concressing and expressing noveltythat is now going to become so intensified that it is going to flowover into another dimension. You can feel it. You can feel it in your own dreams. You can feel itin your own trips. You can feel that were approaching the cusp of acatastrophe, and that beyond that cusp, we are unrecognizable toourselves. The wave of novelty that has rolled unbroken since thebirth of the universe has now focused and coalesced itself in ourspecies. And if it seems unlikely to you that the world is about totransform itself, then think of it this way: Think of a pond and thinkof how, if the surface of the pond begins to boil, thats the signalthat some enormous protean form is about to break the surface of thepond and reveal itself. Human history is the boiling of the pondsurface of ordinary biology. We are flesh, which has been caught inthe grip of some kind of an attractor that lies ahead of us in time,and that is sculpting to its ends. Speaking to us, throughpsychedelics, through visions, through culture and technology.Consciousness, the language-forming capacity in our species ispropelling itself forward, as though it were going to shed the monkeybody and leap into some extra-surreal space that surrounds, but thatwe cannot currently see. Well symbiosis is not parasitism, symbiosis is a situation of mutualbenefit to both parties, so we have to presume that the plants aregetting as much out of this as we are. What we're getting isinformation from another spiritual level, their point of view -- inother words -- is what they're giving us. What we're giving them iscare, and feeding, and propagation, and survival, so they give ustheir elevated higher dimensional point of view. We in turn respond bymaking the way easier for them in the physical world. And this seems areasonable trade-off. Obviously they have difficulty in the physicalworld, plants don't move around much. You talk about Tao, a plant hasthe Tao. It doesn't /even/ chop wood and carry water.[Laughter.]
You can find plenty of McKenna interviews, writings and transcripts here:
http://www.erowid.org/culture/characters/mckenna_terence/mck enna_terence.shtml
http://www.well.com/user/davidu/tmalchemy.html
http://www.tripzine.com/articles.asp?id=terence1
http://www.ratical.org/rhrIndex/authorM.html
http://www.abrupt.org/LOGOS/LOGOS.html
http://mckenna.otterly.com/

Snuffy, Maynard , www.truthout.org, People who make Pink Tanks
pawns.
The Lorax of course
Seekers
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy; And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields. And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.”~ Kahlil Gibran
From Aldous Huxley's : The Doors of PerceptionFull text can be found Here.To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funneled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system. What comes out at the other end is a measly trickle of the kind of consciousness which will help us to stay alive on the surface of this Particular planet.To formulate and express the contents of this reduced awareness, man has invented and endlessly elaborated those symbol-systems and implicit philosophies which we call languages. Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born—the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.That which, in the language of religion, is called "this world" is the universe of reduced awareness, expressed, and, as it were, petrified by language. The various "other worlds," with which human beings erratically make contact are so many elements in the totality of the awareness belonging to Mind at Large.Most people, most of the time, know only what comes through the reducing valve and is consecrated as genuinely real by the local language. Certain persons, however, seem to be born with a kind of by-pass that circumvents the reducing valve. In others temporary by-passes may be acquired either spontaneously, or as the result of deliberate "spiritual exercises," or through hypnosis, or by means of drugs.Through these permanent or temporary by-passes there flows, not indeed the perception "of everything that is happening everywhere in the universe" (for the by-pass does not abolish the reducing valve, which still excludes the total content of Mind at Large), but something more than, and above all something different from, the carefully selected utilitarian material which our narrowed, individual minds regard as a complete, or at least sufficient, picture of reality.'Actually, there’s only One Instant, and it’s right now, and it’s eternity. And it’s an instant, in which God is posing a question, and that question is basically, “Do you wanna be one with eternity, do you want to be in heaven?” And we’re all saying, “Nooo, thank you, not just yet.” And so time is actually just this constant saying, “No” to God’s invitation.' --- Waking Life
'do you go to the dungeon to find out how to make peace with your days in the dungeon?' -- Alanis
---------------------------------------- (Mikhail Naimy was born in Baskinta, in central Lebanon. In 1916 he moved to New York where he founded with his close friend, Kahlil Gibran, a dynamic movement for the rejuvenation of Arabic Literature.)Duality, Non-Duality, The Book of Mirdad'A constant friction is Duality; and the friction gives the illusion of two opposing sides bent upon self-extermination. In truth the seeming opposites are self-completing, self-fulfilling and working hand in hand to one and the same end -- the perfect peace, and unity, and balance of Holy Understanding. But the illusion is rooted in the senses, and it persists so long as the senses persist. ' -------------------------------------------
Camping in Northern Michigan on the shores of Lake Michigan , I found myself fascinated with the way the sunlight played as it came down through the blanket of trees surrounding us.