The Mirror of Galadriel
THIRD APPARITION
Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care
Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are.
Macbeth shall never vanquished be until
Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill
Shall come against him.
Macbeth - Act 4, scene 1
William Shakespeare
Death Bardo and the Afterlife
“And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.”
Genesis, xxviii, 12 – KJV
Modelling Expansion of Consciousness
Any attempt to model phenomena so that an awareness or consciousness might assimilate or comprehend it, is just a model. It is a narration or a modelling of an underlying reality. It is not reality itself. People are lazy with language which imbues a false sense of reality and an inviolate accuracy on the model of choice. The model is mistaken for the reality. It is deemed explicitly real by usage.
Being Avant Garde
“In 1632, Galileo published his Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, which defended heliocentrism while describing geocentrists as "simpletons". Responding to mounting controversy, the Roman Inquisition tried Galileo in 1633 and found him "vehemently suspect of heresy", sentencing him to house arrest. At this point, heliocentric books were banned and Galileo was ordered to abstain from holding, teaching or defending heliocentric ideas after the trial.”
What is a Bodhisattva?
bodhisattva, in Buddhism, one who seeks awakening (bodhi)—hence, an individual on the path to becoming a Buddha.
Power and Equanimity
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophical cul-de-sacs and Controlled Folly
The attempts at mapping the cosmic microwave background are to “hear” the echo of left over energy from the utterance of the primordial and cosmogenic AUM, the first vibration or “word” that stimulated the current universe into manifestation. Scientists are listening to the universe chanting mantra.
Lunatic or Mahāsiddha?
There is a tendency to equate anything straying from norm as lunacy or madness. At a push one might be allowed to be creatively avant garde. From inside the hamster wheel those on the outside look crazy.