The Cosmic Hour: The End of the 5th Sun and the Beginning of Everything. Like him or not, the divisive David Icke nailed it when he said that the "great transformation" is about "freeing ourselves of the perceptions, rules, regulations and 'norms' of the passing energetic era and connecting with the new one.
" It seems like everywhere we look this past year we're seeing evidence of this transformation in events like the Arab Spring, the Occupy Movement, hundreds of protesters marching from New York City to Washington D.C. to rally against genetically modified foods, and in the number of Evolver Spores and other community-oriented groups sharing important films (like Thrive, DMT The Spirit Molecule, Forks Over Knives), supporting new paradigms in festival culture, alternative economy gift circles, skill shares and crowdfunding initiatives that are spreading across the globe as people open and embrace new ways of connecting, new ways of living.
It's a resonant message for many of us: The world needs healing. We need healing. Www.earthwisdomfoundation.net. Dynamic Paradoxicalism: The Anti-ism ism. The following originally appeared on Zap Oracle.
"Words that are strictly true seem to be paradoxical. " --Lao-tse "There is nothing absolute and final. If everything were ironclad, all the rules absolute and everything structured so no paradox or irony existed, you couldn't move. One could say that man sneaks through the crack where paradox exists. " The Chosen People of Iboga: A Conversation with Dimitri Mobengo Mugianis. By the time Dimitiri Mobenga Mugianis reached 40 years of age, he was ready to die.
After cultivating an ever-worsening cocaine and heroin habit, the Detroit born and raised artist, poet and activist had just lost his wife, who died of an heroin overdose while pregnant. Mugianis had been active in Manhattan's Lower East Side artistic and political scene during the eighties and nineties, while keeping a habit, and had by that time lost all sense of purpose in his life.
He had gone back to Detroit and was living in his parents' basement, spending his days shooting drugs. "There was no more fun. I was just really wasted and defeated. Dimitri's first journey to his ancestors' homeland was already set, however following a lead he got from a fellow junkie friend, he decided to stop in Amsterdam on the way, and make a last attempt to kick his habit.
Harlem Shaman Cut to NYC, August 2011. Things were supposed to turn out differently for Dimitri. The Path of Bwiti So it's not a wonder drug? Astrology, Ayahuasca, and Reincarnation. Almost one year ago right now I had my first actual past life regression experience.
As an astrologer having studied the big Evolutionary scholars like Jeff Green, Steven Forest, et al, I had already been in the practice of intellectually reading the archetypal patterns of the moon's nodes in the birth chart, their planetary rulers, the aspects being made and the planetary house positions. I was getting good at reading people's current situations and creating metaphors and parables about possible past life scenarios, always being careful to not talk about their "past lives" too literally.
Instead I would talk about past lives like a metaphor pointing at our genetics, DNA, ancestory, and so forth. I knew what I didn't believe about past lives. The Dangerous Methods of David Cronenberg. The following originally appeared on Zap Oracle.
"He made on me personally the impression of a man obsessed with fixed ideas. I can make nothing in my own case with his dream theories, and obviously 'symbolism' is a most dangerous method. " --William James, referring to Sigmund Freud, in a letter to Geneva psychologist Theodor Flournoy David Cronenberg, who in the 80s was making movies like Scanners about mutants whose telepathic boundary dissolution made them so painfully aware of the chaotic mundanity in people's minds that they lived at the margins of society and, if sufficiently enraged, employed psionic powers that could make someone's head explode into a flying shrapnel of skull shards and brain tissue, has made a subtly restrained film about the tense relationship between Jung and Freud.
Sorry, but the urge to work the plot of Scanners into a surrealistically run-on sentence related to the history of psychoanalysis was a disruptive urge I found impossible to repress. Who Are the Rebel Angels and Why It Matters. It is a curious comment on the irrational aspect of human belief that of all the tyrants, mass-murderers, and sadists in recorded history, it has been Lucifer, Satan, and the rebel angels, who have consistently received the worst of religion's vilification.
One doesn't have to be atheist to suggest there is something rather telling about this. If this attitude continues into the future, monsters like Pol Pot, Hitler, and Stalin, will be mere footnotes in history before Christianity resolves the internal contradiction at the very core of its beliefs. Jesus Christ may have preached that loving one's enemies was the Godly way of resolving conflict, but the religion itself--as it has been taught and practiced--has seemed incapable of applying this counsel where it was most needed. Perilous Passage: An Artifact of The Third Mind. The following is excerpted from Terry Wilson's Perilous Passage: the Nervous System and the Universe in Other Words, published by Synergetic Press, Santa Fe, NM, with an appended introduction by Ian MacFadyen and Phil Wood.
Introduction. Americosmos: A Mandala of the Unenlightened States of Affliction. Anyone who has ever been to a Tibetan Buddhist temple or a California meditation center has probably seen the Bhavachakra.
Known in English as the Wheel of Life, the Wheel of Becoming, or the Wheel of Suffering, this popular mandala depicts the structure and dynamics of samsara, the universe of cyclic existence. As with other traditional Buddhist images, the Bhavachakra is loaded with stylized figures and arcane symbols, each rendered in strict accordance with long-established formulae regarding placement, color, size, bodily proportion, etc.
Not surprisingly, Buddhist art is not about self-expression; rather, it is meant to facilitate spiritual awakening. When I first encountered this fact, and Buddhist iconographic painting in general, I was fascinated and perplexed. I had just arrived for a multi-month stay at Norbulingka, an institute in northern India dedicated to preserving Tibetan art and culture.