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I can't imagine what today's kids imagine when they're taught "sex education." I guess it used to be simpler for kids in the countryside -- they could at least observe what animals do. An animal doesn't screw with one's mind when it screws. It's all rather straightforward. My own ideas at the age of innocence came from misinterpreting an article in a magazine called "Health" -- a kind of medical 101 for lay people, which my mom was subscribed to and I loved to read. The country kept all sex related information under wraps back then but the magazine devoted to 'Health" had to somehow mention STDs at some point, right? Well, at seven, I read this article therein about syphilis. It was presented in the form of a real life story: a girl meets a guy, they hit it off and start dating, then they exchange kisses... Then the guy disappears and the girl starts experiencing this and that, all symptoms presented in dark and gloomy but rather unclear hints as to what they are exactly -- the only symptom that was clearly named was, her eyebrows started thinning out. And also there was clear emphasis on shame, this was no ordinary disorder, apparently it was something that destroys one's social status and turns the victim into some kind of untouchable whom everybody shuns and despises. The article terrified me. Since nothing sex-related was revealed, I had to infer that the sequence of events leading to this shameful, despicable, and in some unclear way horrible disease was just this: 1) girl meets boy and likes him; 2) they kiss; 3) he leaves; 4) as a result she gets a horrible disease. I gave the article to my best friend to read, and we discussed it, wide-eyed with fear, trying to figure out a way to prevent this syphilis thing by never liking boys and never god forbid kissing them. Then keeping our fingers crossed and hoping that no boy would ambush us, jump out of some corner and plant a kiss -- oh horror, this could result in that devastating disease! We better watch out! (An aside: Naive as it was, today I believe most people's ideas about where and how various illnesses originate are as much removed from reality as was the case with that one in our case. And I don't just mean lay people.)
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Hello mate , thank you for replying yet again , im only semi- possesed , had it been a full takeover i wouldnt ever had the ability to rebel. Just as i can stop them from interfering trough consious effort , unfortunately the other way around applies aswell. So sometimes When they use my tounge for example it can turn to a verbal war with alot of back and forths. Sorry for making hastily presumptions in regards to what i thought you meant , my apologies If you want , can you tell me a bit more of the ways you speak of , either here or trough pm ?🙂 Best Dammage
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how fortunate you are! that sounds idyllic
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growing up in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and playing in the woods pretty much every day, i remember learning at a very young age (6) to recognize and avoid the three poisonous snakes (rattlesnake, copperhead, water moccasin) we played in the creek pretty much every day too. And that black snake was not harmful. We were taught to freeze whenever we saw any snake, identify it, alert anyone else nearby, and to slowly back away.
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Your Mother is right.
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As my mother always said, "Red-on-yellow, kill-a-fellow! Red-on-black, venom-lack!"
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https://youtu.be/B3B2Jc4sFuA?si=sUeWNMFpvPNMSdSh
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A short essay on the subtle architecture of our inner life
Lairg replied to Bindi's topic in General Discussion
In the Castaneda writings Don Juan refers to the mind as "a foreign installation". That statement needs some context It is useful to distinguish the elemental substances of the mental space from the intelligences that coordinate those substances into usable organs. Still other intelligences may provide external purpose to the usable organs. Don Juan's statement refers to an external intelligence that commandeers the personal frequencies of the mental structure. It takes a lot of work for the human spirit to establish functional ownership of the personal and transpersonal mental structures - but that is the most obvious precondition for first stage enlightenment. -
For five years I would spend a week at each solstice on Iona - near Dun I Once I saw the setting sun with flat sides. It was a duodecahedron - the simplest regular solid formed by 12 intersecting planes/energies
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This is your captain, full steam ahead.... (but then the first mate says, "oops, we should have seen this coming years ago"
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I remember when i visited Peru a few decades ago, how important towns or areas were laid out in the shape and form of a sacred animal, including key buildings corresponding with power centers in the anatomy of the animal . Cusco was laid out in the shape of a puma (with the temple Sachsayhuaman built in the head of the puma). And the Machu Picchu complex was laid out in the shape of a condor with spread wings. This took my breath away, then and now.
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A short essay on the subtle architecture of our inner life
Bindi posted a topic in General Discussion
I have come to see the psyche not merely as a mind in the psychological sense, but as a layered energetic system populated by subtle forces. At the heart of this view are the subconscious emotional and mental currents, and deeper still, two complementary unconscious currents that I’ve come to think of as the Shiva aspects and the Shakti aspects. The emotional and mental currents we’re all familiar with, but the Shiva and Shakti currents are less obvious, so I will go into some detail about them. They can be recognized through many vivid symbolic pairs: Wildfire / Fireplace The dynamic blaze that consumes and transforms. The hearth that holds the fire safely, giving it purpose and warmth. Fish / Fishbowl The darting, elusive vitality moving through hidden depths. The clear bowl that contains, supports, shapes, and protects its motions. Cat / Dog The graceful, sensitive, easily startled nature that seeks comfort. The loyal guardian that stays close, watching over and calming. Fearful / Protector The trembling instinct that recoils from perceived danger. The steady presence that stands firm, offering safety. These pairs are not idle poetry. They illustrate how the unconscious houses instinctual forces that must evolve together. The Shakti aspect represents a dynamic, vital current — the drive toward life, transformation, emotional vitality, subtle creativity. The Shiva aspect provide containment, the instinctive intelligence that knows how to protect, restrain, channel, and nurture what would otherwise be chaotic. In each pairing: The dynamic life-force is untamed, vital, transformative. The caring containment is protective, shaping, enabling that energy to flourish without harm. They are co-arising: the wild needs the safe space to exist meaningfully; the container finds purpose in cradling the life within. If one seeks only to awaken the dynamic energy (as in a blind kundalini pursuit), without fostering the complementary instinct to contain and guide it, imbalance is inevitable. The system can flare into anxiety, delusion, or emotional overwhelm. This is why so many teachings stress that cultivation is not merely about amplifying energy, but purifying and preparing the mental and emotional channels first, so the deeper forces can safely develop. To purify the emotional and mental currents tangled by personal history, they must be witnessed and brought into greater flow. They are the first terrain of inner work, and through methods such as shadow work, dream exploration, deep feeling and understanding etc, their dysfunctions can be gradually resolved. Only then can the deeper unconscious forces, the Shiva and Shakti layers, find their ground. Importantly, it is the Shiva aspect that must awaken the Shakti aspect, otherwise containment will not occur, and the Shiva aspect in its turn has to first be activated by the flowing current of the emotional and mental currents. Recently, my dreams have begun to show me that when these two deep unconscious instinctual layers find each other and start to mature in their interaction, something new emerges. In symbolic terms, this is represented as a smaller, independent vehicle that will one day travel on its own. This resonates with images from Daoist Neidan (inner alchemy) where an alchemical child is born - an autonomous subtle body that eventually can separate from the main system. This smaller independent vehicle or child is the fruit of a long interplay between mature containment (Shiva) and vitality (Shakti). But the picture does not end here. Overseeing all of this is the witness self, the faculty of clear seeing that stands apart from the energies it observes. This witness is the part that learns to trust that the humble, instinctual containment field is capable of guiding the system more wisely than the anxious grasping of the conscious mind. It slowly informs the conscious mind, which may then serve as the executive agent, ruling not by force but by insight. In the end, I see the conscious mind, gently taught by the witness, becoming the wise steward of the system - allowing these deeper layers to do their work, neither interfering unnecessarily nor abandoning responsibility. Thus the entire architecture of psyche - subconscious, unconscious, witness, and conscious mind - becomes integrated. Each layer performs its unique role, culminating in a new life, an independent vitality born of the interplay between our deepest instinctual forces. A compact visual map (Divine / Mother/ Highest Source) ↓ Witness Self (objective seeing, clear awareness) ↓ Conscious Mind (steward) (makes decisions based on witness insight) ↓ ----------------------------------------------- | | Emotional Stream Mental Stream (Subconscious patterns & biases) ↓ ---------------------------------------------------------------- | | Dynamic Vital Force Containment Field (Shakti aspects) (Shiva aspects) - wildfire, fish, cat, fear - fireplace, fishbowl, dog, protector ↓ Interplay gives rise to: Smaller independent vehicle (new independent ‘entity’ directed by the conscious mind) -
Thank you. I will now review further the parts of Iona where I spent the most time, and felt the greatest affinity
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Wow ! Exotic ! . I was attacked by a 7 foot python once ...... but I managed to defeat it .... and I ATE HIM INSTEAD !
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I was relying too much on memory. The Tree runs more or less North to South
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I had not ever thought of mapping physical sites with the Tree of Life. For the map shown below, with people at say village of Baile Mor and the Abbey, would the upper parts of the tree then be towards Colmuba's Bay and the Quarry, at the bottom of this map (southern tip of the island)? I am trying to visualize it. Then I can try and match where the small cave was that i liked so much.
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What actions brings us closer or further away to/from the light
Nungali replied to Surya's topic in General Discussion
I'm confused by this too ... ' thinly veiled references ' are against the rules or something ? Maybe if some references are veering towards things NOT ALLOWED those things should be reminded ; like " this is veering towards insults ... or veering towards current events, or politics ' .... but a general warning about 'thinly veiled references ' ..... is it applying to you .... to me .... to someone else ? Some here seem to know . Or maybe it's because 'veiling ' obscures the light ? -
What actions brings us closer or further away to/from the light
Nungali replied to Surya's topic in General Discussion
Interesting choice of words , since polarized means ' to restrict the vibrations of a transverse wave, (especially light) wholly or partially to one direction . So polarized thought would seem to be more like unity than duality . To have duality in thought means being able to see both sides of the issue . -
What actions brings us closer or further away to/from the light
Nungali replied to Surya's topic in General Discussion
Very common ... well, around my place ... and most places . I had a pet one once, found a little fledgling on the road side and raised him up until he could fly off . A couple years back they hollowed out a termite nest up in a tree right by front door and bought up two babies there . I have at least one resident one ( but sometimes they gather to welcome or farewell the daily sun in a chorus . He usually sits on a branch of the bottle tree outside my kitchen window . When its cold he gets his 'beenie' on When I put food out for the other birds he often sits watching , aloof an uninvolved . Except for two days back , I decided to make Persian roast duck breasts ( with orange and pomegranate glaze ) the duck breasts were over fatty so I sliced it off around the edges , making long fatty strips and put them on the tree stump .... 'I'll have some of that ! " - other birds didn't stand a chance , its a large bird and has a BIG beak ... as the song says " Kookaburra , king of the bush is he ." -
Having a spiritual sponsor is quite useful - for example in providing suitable words or thoughts to give some direction to the activities of the junior initiate. Those that I relate to, often have a sponsor standing in the solar system. For some reason the sponsors often seem amphibian. (It may be relevant that the Annedotus are amphibian) Also the applicant for first stage enlightenment requires some sponsorship before admission to the planetary community of enlightened beings. The planetary community might be better considered as an organ within the light body of the planetary Logos. Thus the applicant needs to be able to function coherently within that organ
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When you spend the night sleeping in a power center / vortice / sacred site it can 're-arrange ' your life .... and your resultant artworks; one even made it onto our currency ; Ainsley Roberts ... he wasn't really going anywhere , seemed to suffer depression and general malaise about life. he became a little annoying to those around him and a couple of them chipped in and sent him on a holiday up north . He was pretty much the same up there until someone took pity on him, took him out for a horse ride and decided to sleep inside a sacred site . “Palka Karrinya” " The Palka Karrinya is situated at the entrance to a large gorge which is a sacred site that has been a focal point for ancient Aboriginal ceremony, still practised to this day. Central Mount Wedge is situated in the arid Western Desert of the Northern Territory and is approximately plum centre in the middle of Australia. The white explorer Peter Warburton came here in 1873 and his camels refused to enter the gorge to drink water. " From a Taoist perspective, all the horizontal strata of the rocks in the gorge and the red colour would create a very potent masculine Yang chi. Conversely the sole vertical shard, due to its vertical Yin orientation and the yin water in the rock pool next to it, would concentrate, by virtue of polarity, a powerful Yin feminine force. " Ainslie Roberts visited Palka Karrinya in 1956 on a tour of the sacred sites of Central Australia with Charles Mountford, who had an deep interest in Aboriginal art and culture. Charles was recording the rock art while Ainslie wished to retell the Aboriginal myths in painting, drawing and photography. Of all the sacred places that Ainslie Roberts visited in Central Australia, Palka Karrinya had the most profound influence. He believed that Universal archetypes manifested through myths and could be channelled by the artist. Mountford felt the original spirit of the land could be accessed through the ceremonies, art and myths of the Aborigines and glimpses of ancient powers and histories as old as time itself could be experienced. They used the services of an Aboriginal guide called One Pound Jimmy who currently features on the Aussie $2 coin Ainslie went on to take up full time painting and the first book of his paintings of traditional indigenous beliefs and practises called ‘The Dreaming’ was published in 1965 and it helped to fill the abyss that existed between the general Australian public and the rich and ancient cultural heritage of Australia." https://www.veniceclayartists.com/outback-art-inner-centre-centre/
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going fishing, then going to eat fried fillet, sweet iced tea with mint
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Differences between dualism and non-dualism
BigSkyDiamond replied to Bindi's topic in General Discussion
The elements listed in the phrase above in bold, are familiar to me, except for sponsorship. I have not yeard of that, what is it and what does it involve? Also any recommended resources so that I can learn more on this. Thank you. -
Traditionally St Columba left Ireland and Iona was where he landed - hence the naming of the hill with its back to Ireland. The important spiritual and human sites of Iona fit nicely on to the geometric Tree of Life. The most populated areas are on the lower part of the Tree
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What actions brings us closer or further away to/from the light
old3bob replied to Surya's topic in General Discussion
but true which should count there?
