Tuesday, July 31, 2007
D.A.D.D.
So the other day... I had this orientation to go to. So I got myself all fixed up for the first time in while... (..I been savoring these last days before I actually have to do something again...). And my dad gives me this strange look, I say.. "What?" "You look really nice. I'm worried" Oh no..."D.A.D.D. ?" "Yep" Now, getting a compliment like that... "nice"....it doesn't seem like much. But you have to understand, when coming from him...it is a lot and it is a rare occurance (And no, not just because I'm rarely looking nice...). Thanks to him, I walked around with my chin up the rest of the day. (btw-- D.A.D.D. = Dad's Against Daughters Dating) “A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.” --Enid Bagnold
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Rojo Diablo

Is it just me? Or are the origins of words and symbols and language remarkably interesting.
I know, I tend to irk people to the point of insanity as I run around vomiting sunshine and spouting out my epiphanies regarding anything from the relation between the word "red" in Spanish and the name Rohit in Hindi to the astrological origin of the word "Friday" (which, by the way, I think comes from the Latin "Veneris Dies" meaning "Venus' Day" and possibly came to English through the Anglo-Saxon equivalent, "Friges Daeg" or "Frigg's Day". Venus was the Roman goddess of love; Frigg was her Norse counterpart.)
eyah! You see? I can't control it. It just pops out. And the thing is, I am in no way intending to get praise for it. I know it's an incredibly boring subject to most people anyway. So I'm more of talking to myself. There's nothing wrong with trying to impress yourself is there (After all... she's the only one that listens so intently....)
It's like if you're high or something...and you've realized, what you think is, this AMAZING idea, and then you tell everyone about it, and they can immediately tell that you're high. But you know, it doesn't matter how stupid you make yourself look, at least you yourself think it was a great revelation.
Okay...so bad example. But you catch my drift?
As for symbols, I think there's a slightly higher number of people who find them intrigueing. But the problem is, ssymbols are more often than not misunderstood, righ'? I mean, take some symbol, and ask random people on the street what it means, and you'll get answers you cant imagine.
For example...(oh no...run!) The "swastika" (or, more accurately, "svastika")...actually means, something more like "conducive to well-being", and is Sanskrit, not German. Tear it apart and you get su + asti = "well" + "it is"....NOT "Nazi's rule, Jew's suck". The cross was actually used all over the place, much before the Nazi regime. A favorite of Mesopotamian's and stood for good fortune, and prosperity. At the same time on the other side of the world, it was used by Mayan's and Navajo's religiously and similarly.
And in India...to this day...it's widely used in Buddhism and Hinduism. A symbol for a saint because the arms remind them of four possibly places for rebirth; Animal/plant world, Hell, back as a human, or the spirit realm. Sometimes it's hung over doorways of homes, or even businesses. Even clockwise and counterclockwise direction of arms stand for different things, Right- solar, the suns course etc. , Left- basically the opposite...night, magic, Kali...
The swastika only came to the Nazi's through some guy named Guido von List...And can't remember the exact story, but something about him building a temple to Wotan and creating some kind of cult, eventually evolving in to an Armenian Society where the right-handed swastika's "sun" reference became a reference to the "sun-people" and so forth lie the foundations for Hitler adn his Aryan-Germanic ideals.
I think I've gotten carried away, but you see what I mean? Now, next time when you see a swastika you wont automatically think hate and bitterness and death.
Of course... I could be all wro0ng, at least according to somebody.
"If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'" --Archie R. Ammons
"A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day." -- Emily Dickinson
"A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day." -- Emily Dickinson
Friday, July 27, 2007
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Dawn Again

So...
I've been given yet another 'new slate'. I have mixed feelings about this... I'm not quite so excited about this one. Not so confident. Actually...a little dreadful.
But I'm not so sure why that is. Can't be too bad, can it? In any case, it's an adventure...an experience. You can never go wrong with too much experience...although, I have this strange feeling like deja vu as if I know exactly how "this" experience will turn out...
Experience.
Is it really necessary in order to fully understand a situation? Or are there other ways...
Does it always have to be a rational, physical explanation? Something that "makes sense"....?
I think people tend to underestimate how far science can go. Maybe the "logical" explanation for something is only logical because you made it logical.
It is said that the natives of america could not see first European ships coming even when they were in plain sight. They say, there was a shaman of one of these indian tribes on the coast in Florida. He would sit staring out across the Atlantic and one day...he noticed an unusual ripple on the horizon. So, curious...he stared at it hour after hour, day after day, trying to figure out just what it was...until one day...He looked toward the place of the ripple and what he saw was unfathomable. He'd never seen anything like it. He couldn't even describe it to his tribe. He brought them to look and all they could see was that ripple...he told them look deeper...and the giant, sailed ships appeared seemingly from nowhere. Because these people had never seen anything remotely like this before, they were unable to see it.
If this is true.... then who knows what could be surrounding us. Or maybe...it could explain all the 'unexplained'. Or maybe this, or maybe that.....But that's just it, we're afraid of "maybe"....it always has to be "know" "know" "know" "fact". We can't just know everything, and we shouldn't try...Where would we be without mystery?
"Nut, the sky mother, wife of Geb of the earth, arched over the whole world covered in stars and into her womb the boat of Ra passed each night, to be reborn in the morning."
http://www.myspace.com/abigailnoveen (My aunt...)
If this is true.... then who knows what could be surrounding us. Or maybe...it could explain all the 'unexplained'. Or maybe this, or maybe that.....But that's just it, we're afraid of "maybe"....it always has to be "know" "know" "know" "fact". We can't just know everything, and we shouldn't try...Where would we be without mystery?
"Nut, the sky mother, wife of Geb of the earth, arched over the whole world covered in stars and into her womb the boat of Ra passed each night, to be reborn in the morning."
http://www.myspace.com/abigailnoveen (My aunt...)
My Dearest Jules...
"...You Were the First" My dearest Jules, I do not know if this will ever find you. Maybe you're already on the boat. I do not know. I do not remember where you were going. I miss you now. I painted your name in the blood on the back wall. The blood is still there. I do not know what happened to the Man... he doesn't push things under the door any more for me. I feel very lonely now. I can still smell you on the wwalls and the floor. I'm afraid now. Why did you leave? You will come back soon. You would not leave me here alone. I don't have any more cookies left, and the crackers make my mouth hurt. I've been tasting the blood on the wall. It makes me feel bad. Please come back. RAG
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Mayday
It's Beltane tonight...I kinda wish that I could dance and weave those ribbons, tie that fruit and bread to the trees, make that cone with a circle of people I love..leap over that fire and shed that all dead winter bark..let go of my worries..."Father forgive me my trespasses as I forgive those who trespass against me, for I freely forgive all men. If we would secure and cultivate the love of others, we must love others, even our enemies as well as friends. . . . I possess the principle of love. All I can offer the world is a good heart and a good hand. The Saints can testify wether I am willing to lay down my life for my brethren. If it has been demonstrated that I have been willing to die for a "Mormon", I am bold to declare before Heaven that I am just as ready to die in defeding the rights of a Presbyterian, a batist, or a good man of any other denomination. . . . It is a love of liberty which inspires my soul." -- HOC 5:498 (Joseph Smith Jr.)
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Dream is Destiny
Let's talk about Maktub... "Maktub" means "It is written." There are some Arabs that feel that "It is written" is not such a good translation, because... although everything is already written, God is compassionate, and wrote it all down just to help us, guide us. Maktub is a paradox to me...It seems as though nothing can be fate because God is all-knowing, God has granted us our free will (or so they say), But the question has always lingered, since before 350 B.C., since before Aristotle, that is; How can both fate and freedom coexist? Obviously, by fate, we are chained down to whatever is bound to happen...certainly no freedom can dwell there when whichever choice we make is the choice that we were destined to make. And we all know, freedom can not be....no matter what, there are always the laws of physics, of the universe..that must be followed. You're body, is just a complex arrangement of carbon molecules, just water, so our behaviour isn't gonna be an exception to these laws. With laws, there isn't freedom. I could ask, What if those laws which sustain the universe were taken away in order to make way for freedom? Can that be? What would happen if it were so?---------------------------------------------
No, really... I'm asking you, because I do not know the answer. Who knows? If that were to happen, maybe we'd all just end up like little whatchamacallit's (atom's?) that are bound by constant randomness, absolutely anything could happen, absolutely any time despite the surrounding situation.....But then again, if that were so...we'd still be "bound" to those random bursts and "bound" can only mean limits, and limit's can only mean the lack of pure freedom. -------------------
So, why bother with thinking about free will? Why not just accept that we're bound by laws and move on? Because we can't escape the question of free will. Just think of individuality, who you are..it's just an accumulation of all the free choices you made, and you can only be respected for things you did of your own free will. And what about responsibility? How can you be held responsible for something you had no power over because makub was just using you as a vessel to carry on its story. ------------------------
I guess..In order to really understand what it truly is, we need to understand the concept of time. Nothing can be lost at at least trying to understand time because it is full of so many mysteries. 'God is all knowing' and 'we have our amanah..our free agency and our own responsibility' can coexist, at the same time (just as a half empty glass is ‘half full’ and ‘half empty’ at the same time, both are statement of truth, just as every moment is a 'holy' moment (as the presence of god is 'holy'), therefore, you experience this holy moment while at the same time you can watch this moment in the state of just the awareness of that moment). God is beyond time...God created Time. He can easily grab quantum physics by the scuff and live above and within the past, present, and future all at once. While we, measley spirits trapped in prisons of flesh ;) , are bound to the present plane only. We can only think about future, wish about the future and past, remember the past...but before we grasp what exactly is the present it becomes the past. Since God is beyond time, He knows all, and His knowing all signifies everything is written.-------------------------------------------------------------------
Y'know... in writing all of this, I am not taking a particular side....I'm taking a scientific look, a religious look, 'new age', philosophical, shared look and writing a small portion of my thoughts and impressions on these things put together as one idea.-------------------------------------------
I mean, for all we know...What we call "life" could just be a dream....a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream. People talk about 'lucid dreaming'..being able to stay concious while sleeping and control your dreams, CREATE, and manipulate that 'dimension', that perception of reality. Maybe that's all I'm doing now, and I can make myself wake up, but I will be 'waking up' to another reality, another 'dream'.--------------------------------------------------
Or...maybe, this 'God' guy, that IS everywhere, IN everything, IS everything, is just posing us a question...over and over until we answer S/He/It, "Yes". S/He/It's asking us "Do you want to be one with eternity? Do you want to be in Jannah, Elysium, in Heaven?" to which we keep answering, "No. No. No thank you. No." . In which case, the whole story of life leads down to a core of ...The transition of moving from "no" to "yes". So... ultimately, S/He/It waits for us to finally answer, WITH the right intentions/understanding/readiness, "Yes, I give in. Yes, I accept. Yes, I embrace."----------------------------------
Or...MAYBE.....maybe this, maybe that, maybe we're putting too much thought into it all...All of what I've just said could be a load of crap and completely meaningless, and for all you know, I might have been aware of this and just put together a bunch of big fancy words to make me sound all smart and sophisticated and wise...But to give my honest word, it is painful for me to even try to comprehend these things, let alone just KNOW the answers to these questions, honest to goodness, I don't know how someone like me could think of these things (although, I know I am deffinately not the first to)..it's sorta like it is channelled to me from some other source, maybe even my own subconcious without realizing it, maybe GOD......but in any case, I'm gettin' a little sleepy now and...I... think...I might...might.. just.......... ---------------------------------------
"To say yes to one instant is to say yes to all of existence."
No, really... I'm asking you, because I do not know the answer. Who knows? If that were to happen, maybe we'd all just end up like little whatchamacallit's (atom's?) that are bound by constant randomness, absolutely anything could happen, absolutely any time despite the surrounding situation.....But then again, if that were so...we'd still be "bound" to those random bursts and "bound" can only mean limits, and limit's can only mean the lack of pure freedom. -------------------
So, why bother with thinking about free will? Why not just accept that we're bound by laws and move on? Because we can't escape the question of free will. Just think of individuality, who you are..it's just an accumulation of all the free choices you made, and you can only be respected for things you did of your own free will. And what about responsibility? How can you be held responsible for something you had no power over because makub was just using you as a vessel to carry on its story. ------------------------
I guess..In order to really understand what it truly is, we need to understand the concept of time. Nothing can be lost at at least trying to understand time because it is full of so many mysteries. 'God is all knowing' and 'we have our amanah..our free agency and our own responsibility' can coexist, at the same time (just as a half empty glass is ‘half full’ and ‘half empty’ at the same time, both are statement of truth, just as every moment is a 'holy' moment (as the presence of god is 'holy'), therefore, you experience this holy moment while at the same time you can watch this moment in the state of just the awareness of that moment). God is beyond time...God created Time. He can easily grab quantum physics by the scuff and live above and within the past, present, and future all at once. While we, measley spirits trapped in prisons of flesh ;) , are bound to the present plane only. We can only think about future, wish about the future and past, remember the past...but before we grasp what exactly is the present it becomes the past. Since God is beyond time, He knows all, and His knowing all signifies everything is written.-------------------------------------------------------------------
Y'know... in writing all of this, I am not taking a particular side....I'm taking a scientific look, a religious look, 'new age', philosophical, shared look and writing a small portion of my thoughts and impressions on these things put together as one idea.-------------------------------------------
I mean, for all we know...What we call "life" could just be a dream....a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream. People talk about 'lucid dreaming'..being able to stay concious while sleeping and control your dreams, CREATE, and manipulate that 'dimension', that perception of reality. Maybe that's all I'm doing now, and I can make myself wake up, but I will be 'waking up' to another reality, another 'dream'.--------------------------------------------------
Or...maybe, this 'God' guy, that IS everywhere, IN everything, IS everything, is just posing us a question...over and over until we answer S/He/It, "Yes". S/He/It's asking us "Do you want to be one with eternity? Do you want to be in Jannah, Elysium, in Heaven?" to which we keep answering, "No. No. No thank you. No." . In which case, the whole story of life leads down to a core of ...The transition of moving from "no" to "yes". So... ultimately, S/He/It waits for us to finally answer, WITH the right intentions/understanding/readiness, "Yes, I give in. Yes, I accept. Yes, I embrace."----------------------------------
Or...MAYBE.....maybe this, maybe that, maybe we're putting too much thought into it all...All of what I've just said could be a load of crap and completely meaningless, and for all you know, I might have been aware of this and just put together a bunch of big fancy words to make me sound all smart and sophisticated and wise...But to give my honest word, it is painful for me to even try to comprehend these things, let alone just KNOW the answers to these questions, honest to goodness, I don't know how someone like me could think of these things (although, I know I am deffinately not the first to)..it's sorta like it is channelled to me from some other source, maybe even my own subconcious without realizing it, maybe GOD......but in any case, I'm gettin' a little sleepy now and...I... think...I might...might.. just.......... ---------------------------------------
"To say yes to one instant is to say yes to all of existence."
Thursday, March 08, 2007
Obelisk of Fire

And before that chasm of light,
As within a furnace bright,
Column, tower, and dome, and spire,
Shine like obelisks of fire,
Pointing with inconstant motion
From the altar of dark ocean
To the sapphire-tinted skies; As the flames of sacrifice
From the marble shrines did rise,
As to pierce the dome of gold
Where Apollo spoke of old.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills, 1819
As within a furnace bright,
Column, tower, and dome, and spire,
Shine like obelisks of fire,
Pointing with inconstant motion
From the altar of dark ocean
To the sapphire-tinted skies; As the flames of sacrifice
From the marble shrines did rise,
As to pierce the dome of gold
Where Apollo spoke of old.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills, 1819
Surprise!

It was s'posed to be a surprise, but I artfully ruined it :)
Turns out my dad and I are going to get away for a few days and see Evan preform at Carnegie :) yay!
( I think I had too high of expectations when e handed me the tickets... reading... "Days Inn, Alexandria"....wait....Alexandria, Egypt ???? :P But this is good too.)
We're gonna mozy our way up...stop in Washington D.C. for a day... go to museums, galleries... etc. Then head to Philly and go to a few more rather prestigious galleries etc. (Maybe I can lick the Liberty Bell for real this time ;) ) Then FINALLY, to NYC...see a few sites in the city (I'm not so sure I want to go to Ground Zero, I will cry.) until the show. But the twist is, Evan doesn't know I'm coming. He has the idea that we can't afford (which we can't lol, and I'm giving up my class til next year to do this) So he won't even expect it. :)
I'm verrrrrrrrrry excited for this. (Now I get to brag that MY brother is singing in the CARNEGIE ;) )
http://www.carnegiehall.org/article/box_office/events/evt_7733.html?selecteddate=03192007 (see the "Madison High School, Rexburg, Idaho"....)
"A Bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help someone suffer less. Every one of us is capable of this."
"We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love."
"In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change."
"People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?"
--Thich Nhat Hanh
Turns out my dad and I are going to get away for a few days and see Evan preform at Carnegie :) yay!
( I think I had too high of expectations when e handed me the tickets... reading... "Days Inn, Alexandria"....wait....Alexandria, Egypt ???? :P But this is good too.)
We're gonna mozy our way up...stop in Washington D.C. for a day... go to museums, galleries... etc. Then head to Philly and go to a few more rather prestigious galleries etc. (Maybe I can lick the Liberty Bell for real this time ;) ) Then FINALLY, to NYC...see a few sites in the city (I'm not so sure I want to go to Ground Zero, I will cry.) until the show. But the twist is, Evan doesn't know I'm coming. He has the idea that we can't afford (which we can't lol, and I'm giving up my class til next year to do this) So he won't even expect it. :)
I'm verrrrrrrrrry excited for this. (Now I get to brag that MY brother is singing in the CARNEGIE ;) )
http://www.carnegiehall.org/article/box_office/events/evt_7733.html?selecteddate=03192007 (see the "Madison High School, Rexburg, Idaho"....)
"A Bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help someone suffer less. Every one of us is capable of this."
"We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love."
"In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change."
"People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?"
--Thich Nhat Hanh
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Ek Ong Kar

"Who can remember their race between dreams? Nothing ever holds its pace between dreams. A mighty river thunders on its way, An endless quest for the place between dreams. Though predators fiercely hunt for your soul, Know they can never give chase between dreams. Cloudscapes of splendor vanish in the wind; Their existence bears no trace between dreams. This depthless farness mid the burning stars Is but the motionless space between dreams. Light ventures through and beyond the abyss, Yet will never show its face between dreams. Our pains and sorrows gather fold on fold, But who can carry their case between dreams? Your freedom flutters far in flight, Zahhar, For limitless is the grace between dreams."
--(I'm not quite sure of the source)
(p.s. I promise I'll start writing again soon...)
--(I'm not quite sure of the source)
(p.s. I promise I'll start writing again soon...)
Monday, February 19, 2007
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Gong Xi Fa Cai!

(Or in Cantonese... Kung Hey Fat Choy!! Lai see dow loi (hehe, have to add in tradition)) Xin nian kuai le!! Happy Lunar Chinese New Year!! Fu dao!
It is the year of the Pig...and not just any pig, the golden pig, which comes once every 600 years...If I remember correctly. It should be an eventful and significant year, a wonderful year to have babies *wink wink* (pig is the symbol of fertility+the extra golden lucky year= gifted, honest, lucky and warm-hearted children) and should turn out to be very lucky and prosperous. http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=060878ff39deaf2146f818409a7160fb.1227001&cache=1 (just wanted to add that ^... which has nothing to do with China, or new years....) :D
It is the year of the Pig...and not just any pig, the golden pig, which comes once every 600 years...If I remember correctly. It should be an eventful and significant year, a wonderful year to have babies *wink wink* (pig is the symbol of fertility+the extra golden lucky year= gifted, honest, lucky and warm-hearted children) and should turn out to be very lucky and prosperous. http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=060878ff39deaf2146f818409a7160fb.1227001&cache=1 (just wanted to add that ^... which has nothing to do with China, or new years....) :D
Thursday, February 15, 2007
The Truth
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Happy Valentine's Day!

You are my breath,
My hope,
My companion,
My craving,
My abundant wealth.
Without You--my Life, my Love--
I would never have wandered across these endless countries . . .
I look everywhere for Your love-
Then I am suddenly filled with it.
O Captain of my Heart,
Radiant Eye of Yearning in my breast,
I will never be free from You
As long as I live.
Be satisfied with me, Love,
And I am satisfied.
--Anons.
My hope,
My companion,
My craving,
My abundant wealth.
Without You--my Life, my Love--
I would never have wandered across these endless countries . . .
I look everywhere for Your love-
Then I am suddenly filled with it.
O Captain of my Heart,
Radiant Eye of Yearning in my breast,
I will never be free from You
As long as I live.
Be satisfied with me, Love,
And I am satisfied.
--Anons.
Monday, February 12, 2007
Swiped from Astrid........

1. If I were a planet, I would be..........................Mercury
2. If I were a month, I would be.........................october...without question.
3. If I were a day of the week, I would be....................friday or sunday...either
4. If I were a time of the day, I would be.....................twilight............a magical time
5. If I were a sea animal, I would be.................Japanese fighter fish...I love the flowiness and the colors....
6. If I were a direction, I would be.................East, most definately
7. If I were a piece of furniture, I would be............an exotic poster bed with all sorts of drapes and vines hanging from the top, covered in rich india printed bedspreads and lots of fluffy pillows of different patterns with a goose feather mattress
8. If I were a sin, I would be................would you like to know...
9. If I were an historical figure, I would be..........Esther
10. If I were a liquid, I would be.............a pure, creamy milk
11. If I were a stone, I would be...................Tigers eye or Obsidian
12. If I were a tree, I would be..................an age old corkscrew willow................or a sandalwood
13. If I were a bird, I would be.............A crow!
14. If I were a tool, I would be................a book
15. If I were a flower/plant, I would be...............Lotus
16. If I were a kind of weather, I would be.........the time right before a thunderstorm when the wind is gathering and there's lightning in the distance and the air feels charged full of energy
17. If I were an animal, I would be............a panther or a fox
18. If I were a color or shade, I would be................'deep greens and blues are the colors I choose...won't you let me go down in my dreams'
19. If I were an emotion, I would be..............exultance
20. If I were a vegetable, I would be................a tomato
21. If I were a sound, I would be...................The strings being strum
22. If I were an element, I would be........mostly earth...sometimes fire.....occasionally air and water
23. If I were a car, I would be.................the one and only
24. If I were a song, I would be...............oh my.....can't ask me that...what do you think?
25. If I were a movie, I would be directed by.....................M. Night Shyamalan
26. If I were a book, I would be written by......................Hans Christian Andersen
27. If I were a food, I would be..............bread
28. If I were a place, I would be..............an oasis surrounded by vast dunes
2. If I were a month, I would be.........................october...without question.
3. If I were a day of the week, I would be....................friday or sunday...either
4. If I were a time of the day, I would be.....................twilight............a magical time
5. If I were a sea animal, I would be.................Japanese fighter fish...I love the flowiness and the colors....
6. If I were a direction, I would be.................East, most definately
7. If I were a piece of furniture, I would be............an exotic poster bed with all sorts of drapes and vines hanging from the top, covered in rich india printed bedspreads and lots of fluffy pillows of different patterns with a goose feather mattress
8. If I were a sin, I would be................would you like to know...
9. If I were an historical figure, I would be..........Esther
10. If I were a liquid, I would be.............a pure, creamy milk
11. If I were a stone, I would be...................Tigers eye or Obsidian
12. If I were a tree, I would be..................an age old corkscrew willow................or a sandalwood
13. If I were a bird, I would be.............A crow!
14. If I were a tool, I would be................a book
15. If I were a flower/plant, I would be...............Lotus
16. If I were a kind of weather, I would be.........the time right before a thunderstorm when the wind is gathering and there's lightning in the distance and the air feels charged full of energy
17. If I were an animal, I would be............a panther or a fox
18. If I were a color or shade, I would be................'deep greens and blues are the colors I choose...won't you let me go down in my dreams'
19. If I were an emotion, I would be..............exultance
20. If I were a vegetable, I would be................a tomato
21. If I were a sound, I would be...................The strings being strum
22. If I were an element, I would be........mostly earth...sometimes fire.....occasionally air and water
23. If I were a car, I would be.................the one and only
24. If I were a song, I would be...............oh my.....can't ask me that...what do you think?
25. If I were a movie, I would be directed by.....................M. Night Shyamalan
26. If I were a book, I would be written by......................Hans Christian Andersen
27. If I were a food, I would be..............bread
28. If I were a place, I would be..............an oasis surrounded by vast dunes
Eye
I should be writing. Daily or more. There really is no apparent reason for me not to right now. But...I've, once again, fallen into my 'doldrums cycle'. It comes around every so often...though I'm yet to find some kind of pattern in order to stock up and prepare for the...emptiness. You can certainly tell this is not the first time this has happened...either by inconsistenties in my posting since I began....or elsewhere. See.. just because I'm not writing does not mean that I don't want to, nor that I don't intend to...Just as if your ship sails into the silent doldrums...it doesn't mean you want to be there...I do mean to, and I do want to (for the most part)... but I simply cant... And I cannot explain why I can't...I can't even explain why I can't explain why I can't! "Silence is the true friend that never betrays." --Confucius
Friday, February 09, 2007
The Celestine Prophecy

THE FIRST INSIGHT . . . A CRITICAL MASS
A new spiritual awakening is occurring in human culture, an awakening brought about by a critical mass of individuals who experience their lives as a spiritual unfolding, a journey in which we are led forward by mysterious coincidences.
THE SECOND INSIGHT . . . THE LONGER NOW
This awakening represents the creation of a new, more complete worldview, which replaces a five-hundred-year-old preoccupation with secular survival and comfort. While this technological preoccupation was an important step, our awakening to life's coincidences is opening us up to the real purpose of human life on this planet, and the real nature of our universe.
THE THIRD INSIGHT . . . A MATTER OF ENERGY
We now experience that we live not in a material universe, but in a universe of dynamic energy. Everything extant is a field of sacred energy that we can sense and intuit. Moreover, we humans can project our energy by focusing our attention in the desired direction...where attention goes, energy flows...influencing other energy systems and increasing the pace of coincidences in our lives.
THE FOURTH INSIGHT . . . THE STRUGGLE FOR POWER
Too often humans cut themselves off from the greater source of this energy and so feel weak and insecure. To gain energy we tend to manipulate or force others to give us attention and thus energy. When we successfully dominate others in this way, we feel more powerful, but they are left weakened and often fight back. Competition for scarce, human energy is the cause of all conflict between people.
THE FIFTH INSIGHT . . . THE MESSAGE OF THE MYSTICS
Insecurity and violence ends when we experience an inner connection with divine energy within, a connection described by mystics of all traditions. A sense of lightness--buoyancy--along with the constant sensation of love are measures of this connection. If these measures are present, the connection is real. If not, it is only pretended.
THE SIXTH INSIGHT . . . CLEARING THE PAST
The more we stay connected, the more we are acutely aware of those times when we lose connection, usually when we are under stress. In these times, we can see our own particular way of stealing energy from others. Once our manipulations are brought to personal awareness, our connection becomes more constant and we can discover our own growth path in life, and our spiritual mission--the personal way we can contribute to the world.
THE SEVENTH INSIGHT . . . ENGAGING THE FLOW
Knowing our personal mission further enhances the flow of mysterious coincidences as we are guided toward our destinies. First we have a question; then dreams, daydreams, and intuitions lead us towards the answers, which usually are synchronistically provided by the wisdom of another human being.
THE EIGHTH INSIGHT . . . THE INTERPERSONAL ETHIC
We can increase the frequency of guiding coincidences by uplifting every person that comes into our lives. Care must be taken not to lose our inner connection in romantic relationships. Uplifting others is especially effective in groups where each member can feel energy of all the others. With children it is extremely important for their early security and growth. By seeing the beauty in every face, we lift others into their wisest self, and increase the chances of hearing a synchronistic message.
THE NINTH INSIGHT . . . THE EMERGING CULTURE
As we all evolve toward the best completion of our spiritual missions, the technological means of survival will be fully automated as humans focus instead on synchronistic growth. Such growth will move humans into higher energy states, ultimately transforming our bodies into spiritual form and uniting this dimension of existence with the after-life dimension, ending the cycle of birth and death.
THE TENTH INSIGHT . . . HOLDING THE VISION
The Tenth Insight is the realization that throughout history human beings have been unconsciously struggling to implement this lived spirituality on Earth. Each of us comes here on assignment, and as we pull this understanding into consciousness, we can remember a fuller birth vision of what we wanted to accomplish with our lives. Further we can remember a common world vision of how we will all work together to create a new spiritual culture. We know that our challenge is to hold this vision with intention and prayer everyday.
THE ELEVENTH INSIGHT . . . EXTENDING PRAYER FIELDS
The Eleventh Insight is the precise method through which we hold the vision. For centuries, religious scriptures, poems, and philosophies have pointed to a latent power of mind within all of us that mysteriously helps to affect what occurs in the future. It has been called faith power, positive thinking, and the power of prayer. We are now taking this power seriously enough to bring a fuller knowledge of it into public awareness. We are finding that this prayer power is a field of intention, which moves out from us and can be extended and strengthened, especially when we connect with others in a common vision. This is the power through which we hold the vision of a spiritual world and build the energy in ourselves and in others to make this vision a reality.
THE TWELFTH INSIGHT . . . IS YET TO BE REVEALED
A new spiritual awakening is occurring in human culture, an awakening brought about by a critical mass of individuals who experience their lives as a spiritual unfolding, a journey in which we are led forward by mysterious coincidences.
THE SECOND INSIGHT . . . THE LONGER NOW
This awakening represents the creation of a new, more complete worldview, which replaces a five-hundred-year-old preoccupation with secular survival and comfort. While this technological preoccupation was an important step, our awakening to life's coincidences is opening us up to the real purpose of human life on this planet, and the real nature of our universe.
THE THIRD INSIGHT . . . A MATTER OF ENERGY
We now experience that we live not in a material universe, but in a universe of dynamic energy. Everything extant is a field of sacred energy that we can sense and intuit. Moreover, we humans can project our energy by focusing our attention in the desired direction...where attention goes, energy flows...influencing other energy systems and increasing the pace of coincidences in our lives.
THE FOURTH INSIGHT . . . THE STRUGGLE FOR POWER
Too often humans cut themselves off from the greater source of this energy and so feel weak and insecure. To gain energy we tend to manipulate or force others to give us attention and thus energy. When we successfully dominate others in this way, we feel more powerful, but they are left weakened and often fight back. Competition for scarce, human energy is the cause of all conflict between people.
THE FIFTH INSIGHT . . . THE MESSAGE OF THE MYSTICS
Insecurity and violence ends when we experience an inner connection with divine energy within, a connection described by mystics of all traditions. A sense of lightness--buoyancy--along with the constant sensation of love are measures of this connection. If these measures are present, the connection is real. If not, it is only pretended.
THE SIXTH INSIGHT . . . CLEARING THE PAST
The more we stay connected, the more we are acutely aware of those times when we lose connection, usually when we are under stress. In these times, we can see our own particular way of stealing energy from others. Once our manipulations are brought to personal awareness, our connection becomes more constant and we can discover our own growth path in life, and our spiritual mission--the personal way we can contribute to the world.
THE SEVENTH INSIGHT . . . ENGAGING THE FLOW
Knowing our personal mission further enhances the flow of mysterious coincidences as we are guided toward our destinies. First we have a question; then dreams, daydreams, and intuitions lead us towards the answers, which usually are synchronistically provided by the wisdom of another human being.
THE EIGHTH INSIGHT . . . THE INTERPERSONAL ETHIC
We can increase the frequency of guiding coincidences by uplifting every person that comes into our lives. Care must be taken not to lose our inner connection in romantic relationships. Uplifting others is especially effective in groups where each member can feel energy of all the others. With children it is extremely important for their early security and growth. By seeing the beauty in every face, we lift others into their wisest self, and increase the chances of hearing a synchronistic message.
THE NINTH INSIGHT . . . THE EMERGING CULTURE
As we all evolve toward the best completion of our spiritual missions, the technological means of survival will be fully automated as humans focus instead on synchronistic growth. Such growth will move humans into higher energy states, ultimately transforming our bodies into spiritual form and uniting this dimension of existence with the after-life dimension, ending the cycle of birth and death.
THE TENTH INSIGHT . . . HOLDING THE VISION
The Tenth Insight is the realization that throughout history human beings have been unconsciously struggling to implement this lived spirituality on Earth. Each of us comes here on assignment, and as we pull this understanding into consciousness, we can remember a fuller birth vision of what we wanted to accomplish with our lives. Further we can remember a common world vision of how we will all work together to create a new spiritual culture. We know that our challenge is to hold this vision with intention and prayer everyday.
THE ELEVENTH INSIGHT . . . EXTENDING PRAYER FIELDS
The Eleventh Insight is the precise method through which we hold the vision. For centuries, religious scriptures, poems, and philosophies have pointed to a latent power of mind within all of us that mysteriously helps to affect what occurs in the future. It has been called faith power, positive thinking, and the power of prayer. We are now taking this power seriously enough to bring a fuller knowledge of it into public awareness. We are finding that this prayer power is a field of intention, which moves out from us and can be extended and strengthened, especially when we connect with others in a common vision. This is the power through which we hold the vision of a spiritual world and build the energy in ourselves and in others to make this vision a reality.
THE TWELFTH INSIGHT . . . IS YET TO BE REVEALED
Carnegie

Monday, March 19, 8:00 p.m.
http://www.carnegiehall.org/article/box_office/events/evt_7733.html?selecteddate=03192007
http://www.carnegiehall.org/article/box_office/events/evt_7733.html?selecteddate=03192007
19th century

Well...no posts for a while, eh? Just been real sick off and on that passed few weeks. Not fun. Other than that, it's not been a particularly eventful week.
Let's see...This week...there was a massive fire down town. Started in an old warehouse, and spread all over the place. It took them nearly 24 hours to put it completely out. But unfortunately...that damage was pretty bad. And most of the buildings affected were actually built in the 19th century. :( History was just mercilessly burned to ashes.
and...went to the bookstore again....nerdy me....with the money I'm supposedly saving for that workshop with Moria....lol.
"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness." -- HH The Dalai Lama
"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil."-- Circeo
"The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations."-- Isaac D'Israeli
Let's see...This week...there was a massive fire down town. Started in an old warehouse, and spread all over the place. It took them nearly 24 hours to put it completely out. But unfortunately...that damage was pretty bad. And most of the buildings affected were actually built in the 19th century. :( History was just mercilessly burned to ashes.
and...went to the bookstore again....nerdy me....with the money I'm supposedly saving for that workshop with Moria....lol.
"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness." -- HH The Dalai Lama
"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil."-- Circeo
"The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations."-- Isaac D'Israeli
Saturday, February 03, 2007
Thursday, February 01, 2007
She Prayed..
"O Allah! If I worship You for fear of Hell, burn me in Hell,
and if I worship You in hope of
Paradise, exclude me from Paradise.
But if I worship You for Your
Own sake, grudge me not Your everlasting Beauty."
Monday, January 29, 2007
So you see...

Today was a pretty boring...long...day...
Nothing interesting...exciting...influencial...epiphanic...today...as of yet...at least.
Our group has stopped bombarding our representatives with e-mails. Haha...What else can you do if you aren't capable of traveling to D.C. (the marches this passed weekend) and would like to cause a bit more stress for them...
Hmmm...well, I learned about covalent bonds in Biology...heh...and a friend of mine, well...he decided to come to class besotted...*sigh*...at least it was a little amusing...
I had to re-press my silk screen, because obviously I didn't do it good enough the first time.
Learned the Dative endings and several more words to add to my vocabulary in Latin...
Mumma sent some pictures from her trip to Cali. to design some rooms for her friend....they turned out beautiful, as always. Lavender. Golden Gate Bridge. Bienvenidos to San Fransico. Muy muy bueno. I falta tu.
So you see... not much to tell... "Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him."--Goethe
Nothing interesting...exciting...influencial...epiphanic...today...as of yet...at least.
Our group has stopped bombarding our representatives with e-mails. Haha...What else can you do if you aren't capable of traveling to D.C. (the marches this passed weekend) and would like to cause a bit more stress for them...
Hmmm...well, I learned about covalent bonds in Biology...heh...and a friend of mine, well...he decided to come to class besotted...*sigh*...at least it was a little amusing...
I had to re-press my silk screen, because obviously I didn't do it good enough the first time.
Learned the Dative endings and several more words to add to my vocabulary in Latin...
Mumma sent some pictures from her trip to Cali. to design some rooms for her friend....they turned out beautiful, as always. Lavender. Golden Gate Bridge. Bienvenidos to San Fransico. Muy muy bueno. I falta tu.
So you see... not much to tell... "Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him."--Goethe
Slave

Somebody whispered,
“Beware, she wants you on your knees!”
I whispered back:
“On my knees I whish to serve my Lady”
Someone shouted at me:
“You, poor slave of her beauty!”
I shouted back:
“Poor, so she can feed me with her mature fertility;
slave, so she can mark my body,
with signs of her sensuality.”
The other day a passerby asked:
“Where does this never ending ecstasy come from?”
I answered:
“She is the ocean and I thirst her countlessly”
“Beware, she wants you on your knees!”
I whispered back:
“On my knees I whish to serve my Lady”
Someone shouted at me:
“You, poor slave of her beauty!”
I shouted back:
“Poor, so she can feed me with her mature fertility;
slave, so she can mark my body,
with signs of her sensuality.”
The other day a passerby asked:
“Where does this never ending ecstasy come from?”
I answered:
“She is the ocean and I thirst her countlessly”
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Eye, Sea, Light

Everyone has felt that at least once...
Felt that short little jumping feeling you get when you try and try and try and no matter how much effort or time you put into it, it just wont come to you until the right moment... it comes when it chooses to.
Yea... that feeling, the little "click"...the little spurt of realization. You know what I'm talking about?
Just that little tug...subtract any causes or outcomes or thoughts....just the tug.....the plain old tug.
That's what I'm talking about. Now.....Imagine it lasting for more than just seconds...imagine it lasting minutes, days, months, years..forever...
Felt that short little jumping feeling you get when you try and try and try and no matter how much effort or time you put into it, it just wont come to you until the right moment... it comes when it chooses to.
Yea... that feeling, the little "click"...the little spurt of realization. You know what I'm talking about?
Just that little tug...subtract any causes or outcomes or thoughts....just the tug.....the plain old tug.
That's what I'm talking about. Now.....Imagine it lasting for more than just seconds...imagine it lasting minutes, days, months, years..forever...
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