Different folks on Facebook post different things - and some are so very interesting. Thanks for finding them! One of the many things emerging is how much we don't really know once it get's into how things really are, what reality is, or seems to be. It's becoming more and more fluid, changeable, non-pin-pointable - with a big sense of: anything really IS possible. While there are some laws in physics, they don't apply in the other dimensions. Nothing is really real and solid, nothing at all, not really. It's amazing, it's beautiful - it's Being and it moves as one. It's alive and it's beautiful and it feels...
Anyway, what I meant to say is that it seems that reality really seems extremely flexible, malleable, and it is where you can go, what you believe and can perceive....and to say the sky is the limit would not do it justice.
It is beginning to make sense to actually do Parallel World DayTripper excursions.
Friday, July 30, 2010
Awakening from the heart - woman awakening
This evening I was "transferring" band practice music from tape to digital and strumming along on my 40 year old guitar with a few simple and not always matching chords. At some point though the chords and strumming did something else and the only words that came to mind were: women wake up, women wake up - everywhere, in all cultures, all societies. Pretty amazing few minutes. It was like calling all women everywhere to wake up and do what needs to be done from there. And "I" per se wasn't the one calling. The sense, space and feeling was big, non separate.
The doing what needs to be done does not come from the realization of consciousness the way it often is understood - it comes from waking up the heart - from heart awakening - as if one of the seats of consciousness is located in the heart itself.
It's amazing.
Maybe 2012 is going to be a very big year after all - it's possible.
Talking about possible, this reminds me of something else I wanted to write down.
The doing what needs to be done does not come from the realization of consciousness the way it often is understood - it comes from waking up the heart - from heart awakening - as if one of the seats of consciousness is located in the heart itself.
It's amazing.
Maybe 2012 is going to be a very big year after all - it's possible.
Talking about possible, this reminds me of something else I wanted to write down.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Encounter - red-orange dragonfly - alien in the garden
A story I have to tell - and show - it was beautiful - and a bit amazing
This morning I was working in the garden - my little garden patch. An orangy-red dragon fly had been around for a couple of days, and I remember thinking: I never saw an orange-red dragon fly before. So - it was there again this morning and picked this bamboo pole as a resting point. I don't know much about typical behavior for dragon flies. Maybe it was sun-bathing? Anyway, it flew away a few times, only to quickly return to that spot. I wished then I had my camera there. After a while, I decided to take a closer look and to say "High"...and we got acquainted...very cool. It seemed to be making some kind of nodding head movement. As I said, whatever it is that dragonflies do.... I worked some more and after about another hour, finally I told it: Ok if you want your picture taken, stay there and I'll be back with my camera. So I went up to the house and returned....it was still there. It allowed me to get pretty close - till I could see it's face...I don't know what you can see - but I see a smiling face. It was amazing. Nvm the things you can read into the face of an insect - but this guy seemed intelligent, funny, friendly...it was just great....I hope the pictures can convey some of it - as my words can't. I thought it was worth sharing.
As far as I can tell, he is one of those:
Order: Odonata
Suborder: Anisoptera
Order Description: Dragonflies
Family: Libellulidae
Family Description: Skimmer
This morning I was working in the garden - my little garden patch. An orangy-red dragon fly had been around for a couple of days, and I remember thinking: I never saw an orange-red dragon fly before. So - it was there again this morning and picked this bamboo pole as a resting point. I don't know much about typical behavior for dragon flies. Maybe it was sun-bathing? Anyway, it flew away a few times, only to quickly return to that spot. I wished then I had my camera there. After a while, I decided to take a closer look and to say "High"...and we got acquainted...very cool. It seemed to be making some kind of nodding head movement. As I said, whatever it is that dragonflies do.... I worked some more and after about another hour, finally I told it: Ok if you want your picture taken, stay there and I'll be back with my camera. So I went up to the house and returned....it was still there. It allowed me to get pretty close - till I could see it's face...I don't know what you can see - but I see a smiling face. It was amazing. Nvm the things you can read into the face of an insect - but this guy seemed intelligent, funny, friendly...it was just great....I hope the pictures can convey some of it - as my words can't. I thought it was worth sharing.
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| Any idea what his name might be - or where he's from? :) |
As far as I can tell, he is one of those:
Order: Odonata
Suborder: Anisoptera
Order Description: Dragonflies
Family: Libellulidae
Family Description: Skimmer
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Women's groups? Feminine Power?
Last week I was on the phone with a friend and wonderful guide of mine. One thing that came up was this: what about all this stuff about women getting together, women's groups and awakening and feminine power stuff going on these days, it's everywhere, even a women's safari group formed itself almost effortlessly in this field - how much if any of this is somewhat of a new age fad, something rooted in selfish "self" expression, getting needs met and/or is this something in line with certain kinds of high level initiations which have service as a center piece, or a true bodhisattva disposition.
Here is how she viewed it: "It can be looked at as a way of the system (of all of humanity) to self correct to come into a more balanced state, to become healthy - after centuries of dominance of the patriarchal systems". That made a lot of sense, and while there may be some overcompensating that may happen - it still is something that needs to happen.
...and it is not a "return to" kind of a movement, it is a new direction: from femininepower.com: "For the feminine to become a source of power from which we can create the future of our lives and the future of our world, it needs to be consciously evolved through us. We need to awaken and cultivate a new, co-creative, feminine power that integrates and includes all the gains of masculine power, giving us access to a kind of co-creativity we’ve never seen in our recorded history.
The power we've been mastering for the last 50 years has been a masculine version of power.
Until now, power has been defined exclusively in masculine terms. If you look up the word “power” in the dictionary, the definition given is the ability “to do, to act, to accomplish, to wield command or control over others. This masculine power system has given us the miracles of science and the marvels of industry. It has enabled us to create an unprecedented standard of living and have opportunities beyond our grandmothers’ wildest dreams."
From the - The Women's Temple group:
"For the balanced feminine to blossom it is helpful, and in our experience crucial, to create and sustain women’s circles that truly nourish us in the deepest sense. Instead of enforcing the status quo by focusing on our problems and personal shortcomings, circles like this connect us with truth beyond our fears and limited self-images. From this deeper place we can effortlessly radiate clarity and guidance instead of exhaust ourselves in trying to be leaders from a tense, competitive and ego-centered state of mind." The Awakening Women Way, http://awakeningwomenblog.com/, is an invitation to show up in your life as a compassionate and powerful leader, fully honoring your feminine beauty, wisdom and strength. Chameli Ardagh
It is in this field I look at my life, and, not being able to come up with a single thing, other than emptying my storage unit before I die, - I made an invocation.
Here is how she viewed it: "It can be looked at as a way of the system (of all of humanity) to self correct to come into a more balanced state, to become healthy - after centuries of dominance of the patriarchal systems". That made a lot of sense, and while there may be some overcompensating that may happen - it still is something that needs to happen.
...and it is not a "return to" kind of a movement, it is a new direction: from femininepower.com: "For the feminine to become a source of power from which we can create the future of our lives and the future of our world, it needs to be consciously evolved through us. We need to awaken and cultivate a new, co-creative, feminine power that integrates and includes all the gains of masculine power, giving us access to a kind of co-creativity we’ve never seen in our recorded history.
The power we've been mastering for the last 50 years has been a masculine version of power.
Until now, power has been defined exclusively in masculine terms. If you look up the word “power” in the dictionary, the definition given is the ability “to do, to act, to accomplish, to wield command or control over others. This masculine power system has given us the miracles of science and the marvels of industry. It has enabled us to create an unprecedented standard of living and have opportunities beyond our grandmothers’ wildest dreams."
From the - The Women's Temple group:
"For the balanced feminine to blossom it is helpful, and in our experience crucial, to create and sustain women’s circles that truly nourish us in the deepest sense. Instead of enforcing the status quo by focusing on our problems and personal shortcomings, circles like this connect us with truth beyond our fears and limited self-images. From this deeper place we can effortlessly radiate clarity and guidance instead of exhaust ourselves in trying to be leaders from a tense, competitive and ego-centered state of mind." The Awakening Women Way, http://awakeningwomenblog.com/, is an invitation to show up in your life as a compassionate and powerful leader, fully honoring your feminine beauty, wisdom and strength. Chameli Ardagh
It is in this field I look at my life, and, not being able to come up with a single thing, other than emptying my storage unit before I die, - I made an invocation.
Monday, July 12, 2010
Considerations on Beauty, Aesthetic and Level of Consciousness - and some questions
A saying by a Buddhist teacher, transmitted through Ken Wilber goes:
"The way you treat your environment is the way you treat your mind."
Not quite the same, this has also been said: if your environment is messy, so is your mind.
I really admire, adore, would like to live in a space that reflects clarity and aesthetics - and then there is: a ratio of work to do and stuff to store and organize/to available space, time and energy in which to accomplish this. As with all things, there is keeping with appropriateness to time, place and people.
I would like to recount a little episode, or a mental vignette for you if you will, that was brought to my attention the other day. Before I do this, here are a couple of background considerations on beauty and the desire or impulse to be beautiful, pleasing in appearance and also have your surroundings be like that. The question here is: what is the motive for being beautiful and/or keeping your space aesthetic and clean? Here is how I understood the places this desire and associated actions can come from if one uses a simple 3 level scheme.
- You do yourself up to be as beautiful as you can be just for your own narcissistic need - whether you are actually saying that or not - this is egocentric motivation.
- You do yourself up for a relationship, your lover, friend, family, your tribe - this is called ethnocentric in it's motivation.
- You are being beautiful as a gift and the pleasure it brings to everyone around you - all sentient beings.
Aesthetic and harmony, being that which is pleasing, are part of your life and expression of being. Everything that is arising is part of the perfect manifestation of the great perfection. It's just not yourself, it also is your environment. Here beauty and aesthetic is an alignment. All you are doing - is honoring the beauty of the great perfection. Objects that are arising that are around you are ornaments of that perfection. A simple aesthetic, balanced and harmonious, is an indication of alignment with a certain purity.
So then:
A small group was gathered in a fairly large space for a previously scheduled 45 minute special type of movement energetics class. It is a new class being worked out. Things are going well.
Then someone not part of the class, with great intent of making a proprietary part of this workspace clean, starts vacuuming in another part of the space - with increases dust, but mostly is very loud, making it somewhat difficult to hear the instructor. This goes on off and on the rest of the class. Generally the cleaner desires and is able to maintain a fairly aesthetic looking space.
So here are few questions:
1- In light of above considerations of motivation - in which of those 3 levels was the motivation likely centered for the cleaning action at that time?
2- In general, can, in the same act, be the motivation double, ie: egocentric as well as be aligned with the higher, balanced, perfect aesthetic?
3- Where does this leave a messy creative chaos?
4- Are we back to: beauty is in the eye of the beholder - or is there something objective about real beauty?
(See my previous post)
5- Is (or was, not sure if same is true of the younger generation) Japanese cultural plus enforced by necessity order in cramped quarters out of a sheer lack of space an expression of higher level of consciousness?
6- Is a degree of messiness and disorderliness out of sheer lack of manpower and energy to get all the work done as well as simultaneously maintaining a high level of certain aesthetic space reflective of a lower level of consciousness?
I have not read all that much about these things, ....just wondering.
One of the things I am juggling at the moment is: how to get all the work done as well as establish and be able to maintain an aesthetically pleasing workspace. Sheer time and space constraints seem to say: impossible.
It could be that energy for more work gets liberated having handled a certain degree of "inevitable" messiness.
7- If maintaining a highly aesthetic space and personal appearance out of any motivation comes at a cost to others in the same group and their work, how can it be justified? Can it be justified?
So much for now.
Given the general Gestalt of what is happening - answers will manifest themselves.
In closing for this post, here is something I heard today in regards to our planetary condition and all the investigations into consciousness:
"This is the time to DO consciousness....".
"The way you treat your environment is the way you treat your mind."
Not quite the same, this has also been said: if your environment is messy, so is your mind.
I really admire, adore, would like to live in a space that reflects clarity and aesthetics - and then there is: a ratio of work to do and stuff to store and organize/to available space, time and energy in which to accomplish this. As with all things, there is keeping with appropriateness to time, place and people.
I would like to recount a little episode, or a mental vignette for you if you will, that was brought to my attention the other day. Before I do this, here are a couple of background considerations on beauty and the desire or impulse to be beautiful, pleasing in appearance and also have your surroundings be like that. The question here is: what is the motive for being beautiful and/or keeping your space aesthetic and clean? Here is how I understood the places this desire and associated actions can come from if one uses a simple 3 level scheme.
- You do yourself up to be as beautiful as you can be just for your own narcissistic need - whether you are actually saying that or not - this is egocentric motivation.
- You do yourself up for a relationship, your lover, friend, family, your tribe - this is called ethnocentric in it's motivation.
- You are being beautiful as a gift and the pleasure it brings to everyone around you - all sentient beings.
Aesthetic and harmony, being that which is pleasing, are part of your life and expression of being. Everything that is arising is part of the perfect manifestation of the great perfection. It's just not yourself, it also is your environment. Here beauty and aesthetic is an alignment. All you are doing - is honoring the beauty of the great perfection. Objects that are arising that are around you are ornaments of that perfection. A simple aesthetic, balanced and harmonious, is an indication of alignment with a certain purity.
So then:
A small group was gathered in a fairly large space for a previously scheduled 45 minute special type of movement energetics class. It is a new class being worked out. Things are going well.
Then someone not part of the class, with great intent of making a proprietary part of this workspace clean, starts vacuuming in another part of the space - with increases dust, but mostly is very loud, making it somewhat difficult to hear the instructor. This goes on off and on the rest of the class. Generally the cleaner desires and is able to maintain a fairly aesthetic looking space.
So here are few questions:
1- In light of above considerations of motivation - in which of those 3 levels was the motivation likely centered for the cleaning action at that time?
2- In general, can, in the same act, be the motivation double, ie: egocentric as well as be aligned with the higher, balanced, perfect aesthetic?
3- Where does this leave a messy creative chaos?
4- Are we back to: beauty is in the eye of the beholder - or is there something objective about real beauty?
(See my previous post)
5- Is (or was, not sure if same is true of the younger generation) Japanese cultural plus enforced by necessity order in cramped quarters out of a sheer lack of space an expression of higher level of consciousness?
6- Is a degree of messiness and disorderliness out of sheer lack of manpower and energy to get all the work done as well as simultaneously maintaining a high level of certain aesthetic space reflective of a lower level of consciousness?
I have not read all that much about these things, ....just wondering.
One of the things I am juggling at the moment is: how to get all the work done as well as establish and be able to maintain an aesthetically pleasing workspace. Sheer time and space constraints seem to say: impossible.
It could be that energy for more work gets liberated having handled a certain degree of "inevitable" messiness.
7- If maintaining a highly aesthetic space and personal appearance out of any motivation comes at a cost to others in the same group and their work, how can it be justified? Can it be justified?
So much for now.
Given the general Gestalt of what is happening - answers will manifest themselves.
In closing for this post, here is something I heard today in regards to our planetary condition and all the investigations into consciousness:
"This is the time to DO consciousness....".
The Blessing Well
Sunday, July 4, 2010
What is Beauty?
Beauty - is it state dependent, is it really in the eye of the beholder?
Seeing a number of incredible photography of incredibly beautiful places as well as artwork, I wonder: When does something qualify as beautiful to us?
What is the something that, no matter where, when or by whom it is viewed, will inspire this sense of awe, aesthetic and beauty? Or is there really such a thing? What about nature - and sacred geometry?
What about - Beauty is in the eye of the beholder? Or, in other words: is it dependent on state of consciousness, on perception in inner experience?
I recall something from many, many years ago. I was looking out the window across houses and houses onto the smoking factories of a big city. It was sunset time - and suddenly everything turned into beauty and perfection - pure Beauty and Perfection. I was standing there in awe for quite some time. I never would have guessed it could happen - given I was not very fond of industrial smoking factories. But wow - sheer perfect beauty. The Beatles were playing, on tape: I hope you understand...(to the tune of: I wanna hold your hand)
What aesthetic was that?
So then back to: what is Beauty, what is beautiful - and how can you tell?
Despite thoughts and preliminary answers about this, the questions nonetheless got rekindled by seeing such beautiful images on Facebook, posted by different folks.
Beauty - The property, quality or state of being "that which pleases merely by being perceived" (Aquinas)
Seeing a number of incredible photography of incredibly beautiful places as well as artwork, I wonder: When does something qualify as beautiful to us?
What is the something that, no matter where, when or by whom it is viewed, will inspire this sense of awe, aesthetic and beauty? Or is there really such a thing? What about nature - and sacred geometry?
What about - Beauty is in the eye of the beholder? Or, in other words: is it dependent on state of consciousness, on perception in inner experience?
I recall something from many, many years ago. I was looking out the window across houses and houses onto the smoking factories of a big city. It was sunset time - and suddenly everything turned into beauty and perfection - pure Beauty and Perfection. I was standing there in awe for quite some time. I never would have guessed it could happen - given I was not very fond of industrial smoking factories. But wow - sheer perfect beauty. The Beatles were playing, on tape: I hope you understand...(to the tune of: I wanna hold your hand)
What aesthetic was that?
So then back to: what is Beauty, what is beautiful - and how can you tell?
Despite thoughts and preliminary answers about this, the questions nonetheless got rekindled by seeing such beautiful images on Facebook, posted by different folks.
Beauty - The property, quality or state of being "that which pleases merely by being perceived" (Aquinas)
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