This is the not-you
at your kernal
the being you will into existence
by making your shadow manifest
the discarded parts of yourself
that unlock the potential
that once you feared
By embracing it you become whole hole
holy and profane
you reach out to us
to find the key to negation
only by shaking the snowglobe of your existence
and becoming the hidden
can you understand.
Feel the wrath at your core
and set it free
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Moon Gazing but Missing the Big Picture (redux) by GAR
“Religion is the emulation of the adult by the child. Religion is the encystment of past beliefs: mythology, which is guesswork, the hidden assumptions of trust in the universe, those pronouncements which men have made in search of personal power, all of it mingled with shreds of enlightenment. And always the ultimate unspoken commandment is ‘Thou shalt not question!’ But we question. We break that commandment as a matter of course. The work to which we have set ourselves is the liberating of the imagination, the harnessing of imagination to humankind’s deepest sense of creativity.” — Frank Herbert
The universe is non-simultaneously apprehended” ― R. Buckminster Fuller
By non-simultaneously apprehended, Fuller meant that the universe was too big to be understood all at once by us contained within it. Even if everything that is in the universe is in us microcosmically. If you add to that the unending void that the universe springs from, the possibility of anyone holding the complete and unquestionable truth (never mind being able to understand it) becomes impossible.
There is always more to learn, new gnosis to gain and old worn out ideas to discard. Avoid like the plague those who would feed your inner laziness by offering you the children’s model that they hold as absolute, especially if they ask you to take it on faith. (In my experience when someone asks you to take something on faith, they do not offer lube to ease it in but that is neither here nor there. Explore and question your knowledge, your beliefs, your gnosis and your understanding being willing to discard it all or any of it for a better model. You will find help along the way. Seek to know and act creatively reaching to expand and ascend and become. I know of no more worthwhile endeavor.
““To a magician, there is very little difference between a mirror and a door.” — Susanna Clarke
Through these doors and mirrors, we bring ourselves. Oh perhaps we’ll adopt a new face and a new persona in hopes of impressing whoever we may meet but inside its ourselves. No matter what door we go through. Our perceptions will be us coloured. Of course, if we know ourselves we know exactly what that shade is and can compensate. Removing just that amount from what we perceive that we react to more of the reality behind the veil.. behind our being… Of course it takes so long to figure that out and by the time it has, our colour may have shifted…
 
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Conversation in the Jewelled Fountain (redux) by GAR
Asleep in the dragon’s arms
she comes to me
Her serpents drink my dreams
and I filled with her thirst
become the lustful predator
seeking her gnosis
in the blood of my enemies
Another Castaneda quote and a concept that I really resonate with:
A man of knowledge knows that his life will be over altogether too soon. He knows that he, as well as everybody else, is not going anywhere; he knows that nothing is more important than anything else. … Under these circumstances his only tie to his fellow men is his controlled folly. Thus a man of knowledge endeavors and sweats and puffs and, if one looks at him, he is just like any ordinary man, except that the folly of his life is under control. Nothing being more important than anything else, a man of knowledge chooses any act and acts it out as if it matters to him. His controlled folly makes him say that what he does matters and makes him act as if it did, and yet he knows that it doesn’t. So when he fulfills his acts, he retreats in peace and whether his acts were good or bad, or worked or didn’t, it is in no way part of his concern. — Carlos Castaneda
How many of those reading this feels like they practice this concept of controlled folly in their own lives?
Does anyone else feel like they’re getting their ass kicked by this particular full moon? While there doesn’t seem to be as much rancour as during the last one, there seems to be lots simmering below the surface for many, physical and emotional ailments exacerbated and just (for me anyway) a strong need to say fuck it. Tho March seems to bring out more of a desire for movement for me and the need to get things done. So perhaps the seeds, born of both gnosis and venom will materialize in interesting ways. Now that I am almost caught up with having all of my art on the blog I am trying to decide on a new direction and new look for it. I have been told that my art imparts gnosis and am wondering whether my words can as well. Onward to the beckoning becoming future. HDHM!
Moon Gazing but Missing the Big Picture (redux) by GAR
My Shadowed Face (redux) by GAR
Asmoday by GAR
