for a minute there

i forgot about story

Filippo Minelli

creative

Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.
— Ira Glass, via NPR Fresh Air.

holographic universe

“We are really 'receivers' floating through a kaleidoscopic sea of frequency, and what we extract from this sea and transmogrify into physical reality is but one channel from many extracted out of the superhologram.”

-Michael Talbot, The Universe as a Hologram

tantra

if you are thinking about how transcendence affects others

maybe it isn't transcendence

The transcendental experience

has been repeated so often that there is no room for doubt about its validity, and it tallies so clearly with the descriptions left by mystics and yogis as to yield no possibility of mistaking it for any other condition. The experience is genuine beyond question, but there is a difference in my recognition of it as compared to that accorded to it in the past. The variation lies in treating the manifestation not as a mark of special divine favour, vouchsafed to me in particular or earned by me as a reward for merit, but as an ever-present possibility, existing in all human beings by virtue of the evolutionary process still at work in the race, tending to create a condition of the brain and nervous system that can enable one to transcend the existing boundaries of the mind and acquire a state of consciousness far above that which is the normal heritage of mankind at present. In other words, instead of believing that the experience, in spite of its marvellous and sublime nature, denotes a subjective appreciation of ultimate reality, complete and whole, it represents to me an upward climb from one rung of the ladder of evolution to another.

Gopi Krishna, or does it matter

skydive from the moon

set you free

““When meditating in the heart centre, picture it as a golden lotus closed. When the Sacred Word is enunciated, picture it as a lotus slowly expanding until the inner centre or vortex is seen as a radiating whirlpool of electric light, more blue than golden.””

- Letters on Occult Meditation  (LOM:85)

SPIRITUALITY? LIFE AFTER DEATH question: <  malocciorules >  03/02 20:42:58

What do you think really happens?

I used to think nothing happened.

Death of the body meant death of the ego meant death of myself. It's the most fear-inducing aspect of our existence.

But I'm starting to wonder if after death there remains some part of our personal self that enters a consciousness so vast and amazing, so outside our dimensional way of thinking (yet for a period of adjustment, somewhat the same), that the concept of ego and identity and separateness defining our fear here will become absolutely irrelevant in the context of these new systems that our death has thrust us into. 

Maybe what we think of as our True Selves, our Higher Selves, are the continuous thread that connects our various journeys, going around in circles, because of course everything is a circle. 

I think the reason people buy into the heaven concept is because they are tired of the prison that life on earth in a human body can be if one is resistant to evolving. They don't understand -- usually because they have been taught to disconnect from intuition -- that being here in this body in this space/time continuum on this planet is not the end-all be-all of their Self. 

If being here was easy, this phase of the universal cycle of this dimension would be at its end. It's getting harder, in ways that are making people look to the sky and spot hawks and see signs in licence places. 

I've been wondering if after death there remains some part of our personal self that enters a consciousness so vast and amazing, so outside our dimensional way of thinking (yet for a period of adjustment, somewhat the same), that the concept of ego and identity and separateness defining our fear here will become absolutely irrelevant in the context of these new systems that our death has thrust us into. So it seems like the end but it really isn't. 

brock lefferts

ninquelen

eye of ra

wild hemlock

do it now

I WANT MY PLANET BACK

“There is a whole mythology surrounding sex and death that has to do with knowledge. It begins with Genesis, the forbidden fruit, and it is echoed in all the chambers of desire opened up by literature. This forbidden knowledge, this door whose key is handed over with the order not to use it, is the West’s representation of sex itself. The delights it procures can only come at a price. No debt is heavy enough; payment in blood is required. The mingled blood of castration, menstruation, lost virginity. Of the three liquids in the human body, water (tears, saliva, sweat), sperm, and blood, blood is the only one that signifies death as well as life.”

- Anne Dufourmantelle & Catherine Porter (Blond Date: Sex and Philosophy)

“If you think the orgasm is just a physical event, the result of brain chemicals mixing together, then you may hold on to the body out of fear. Instead of inviting you to unbounded bliss, the orgasmic surrender will remind you of death. Subconsciously, you will tense up and hold back. The ecstasy of complete bodily surrender, the joy of dissolving into the ocean of life, will escape you.”

- David Ramsdale (Red Hot Tantra: Erotic Secrets of Red Tantra for Intimate Soul-to-Soul Sex)

yesss she was

bjork was right

Dances of the Planets