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If I told You Than…

“One of the things that has always rankled me is human secrecy. So long as this body of knowledge remains locked up in one or more human being’s brains, it runs the risk of being lost to mankind forever, ”
— Israel Regardie

When I was being trained as a salesman I was taught that people valued only what they paid for. If something was seen as less expensive, it was seen as inferior to something that cost more. Even if the thing that cost more was seen as less attractive than the cheaper item or was less well made. We confuse cost and value all too easily.
For those seeking spiritual truth it can be much the same way. Anyone can learn yoga, meditation and magick yet going through a school that spoon feeds the knowledge is oft seen as preferable. The more cost, history and secrecy is put on the lessons the more people feel that it is the real deal. Even if it rings less true than one’s own inner knowledge. It is as the old Siamese King said, “a puzzlement”
Blessings, G

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Multiple Awareness by G A Rosenberg

Dimension Breaking by G A Rosenberg

Midnight Wanderings

“At midnight I had always been metamorphosed into a solitary, estranged wanderer.”
— Anaïs Nin

At midnight the mask comes off and I stand so naked that I am unseen. Unseen by the expectations of the day people I can be more truly myself and get lost in my shadows for hours with no fear of expectation. The freedom is welcomed even if it is a solitary pursuit for any companion in my wanderings will project a mask on even the most naked of faces comprised of who they have known me to be and even more odious who they wished me to be that I were not. In the morning world, I wake to my day life and the layers and layers of motley and machier form upon me but the night’s wind never wholly disappears.

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Transforming Vision by Gary A. Rosenberg

Inner Exploration by G A Rosenberg

Communication Breakdown

“I don’t take anything personally. I am a secondary character in other people’s stories. I know that whatever people say about me is just a projection of their image of me. It has nothing to do with me.”
— Miguel Angel Ruiz

Would that that attitude was easy to come by yet I personalize everything. It’s not that I care what any one person thinks of me. Intellectually I know that that is none of my business. Yet I wish to be understood and grasped by someone. I wish for that feeling of true communication yet it seems rare indeed.
Blessings, G

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An Active Friend by G A Rosenberg

Sea Kingdom by G A Rosenberg

Hunger, Resistance and Strength

“He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger”
— Friedrich Nietzsche

Feeling need disappointed and hunger unfulfilled, I let the abyss swallow me. Not all at once but an inch at a time enjoying the ecstatic emptiness and yearning each step of the way. Every sense comes alive as I deny the needs I have disclaimed. There is such strength in refusal but such weaknesses in this unfulfilled yearning. Each day tho the storm abates with just a few reminders left. Now the desire for a cigarette has almost disappeared completely.
Blessings, G

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Finding His Reason by G A Rosenberg

Zombie Night by G A Rosenberg

I Have Only Come Here Seeking…

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h3>”The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
— Stephen Hawking

Save me from surety. It is so easy to ‘know’ things. We decide that the universe is a given way and immediately it conforms to our view. Anyone who thinks differently is either foolishly wrong or mendaciously evil. Very little will happen in contradiction to our world view that we cannot explain away or ignore until it goes away. When contradictions arise that are too difficult to explain or ignore, we can distract by pointing out what someone else is doing wrong. If we cannot see any evident wrong-doing, we can invent it and add it to our body of knowledge. We can become so busy pointing out wrongdoers that soon we will never have to explain anything and our ‘knowledge’ of the universe will remain pristine.
At least during my more cynical times, that is how the world appears.
Blessings, G

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The UnMapped Labyrinth by G A Rosenberg

Reality Bubble by G A Rosenberg

Coat of Arms by G A Rosenberg

Ephemeral Self

“Get up, walk across the room and come back. Where are your footprints? They’re gone. So where are you? Who are you? When we try explaining who we are we sort of give recitation of our history. Forget it. That’s not you. It’s some story that’s already gone. We don’t know ourselves except by listening to our echos and consulting our memories.”
— Alan Watts

I am of the moment
I exist apart from time
not who I was
nor who I’ll be.
An eternal flash in eternity
fully expressed and expressive
then fractally wiped away
by the future selves
Drops in a bucket that
form a tidal wave
sinking back into the void
— G A Rosenberg

Blessings, G

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Inner Perspective by G A Rosenberg

Dream’s Citadel by G A Rosenberg

Reality Engineering

“Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.”
— William S. Burroughs

Is a Unicorn real? Does a gryphon exist. Yes if only for the time it is though of. We all have reality engines behind our ears constantly bringing new things into being and banishing the old. Using out own personal creative void we bring forth into being. What’s more through our art, we, reality engineers can help others to see it through and meme seed our real the way we wish it to be.
Blessings, G

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Beaming In by G A Rosenberg

Converging Bodies by G A Rosenberg

Ignite the Mind

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”
— Plutarch

Leaving school
with mind overfilled
yet underinsured
I need to find a spark
something that will ignite
the spirit
Too many thoughts
circle within me
and none of it feels important
how do I use what I know?
How do I find the glow
that will fulfill me?
— G A Rosenberg

Blessings, G

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Harlequin Carries the World Seed by G A Rosenberg

A Game of Life by G A Rosenberg

The Madness of an Artistic Fool

“”I have pretended to go mad in order to tell you the things I need to. I call it art. Because art is the word we give to our feelings made public. And art doesn’t worry anyone.”
— Iain Thomas

Real art has the ability to make us uneasy. Yet like the King’s Fool of old, the artist is allowed to say things in their art that others would never be able to. At its best, it holds up a mirror to show us both our flaws and our beauty and force us to see things from a new angle. If artists are considered off in ways or mad, perhaps it is the insanity that comes from looking too often into the dark and unusual aspects of our existences. After all fools do go where angels may fear to tread.
Blessings, G

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Eye in the Flame by G A Rosenberg

Her Avatar Appeared by G A Rosenberg

Mauve Gateway by G A Rosenberg

It’s All Done With Internal Mirrors

“The difference between magick and therapy is that, for magick, truth lies in experience, whereas therapy is concerned with questions of “meaning” and “interpretation”. The therapist traces the meaning of symptoms back to the unconscious, over and over again. In other words, issues on the surface are exposed as being the product of issues hidden at a lower level. It is all “about” issues. Magick, on the other hand, enables us to experience issues directly as something else—as a “demon”, an “angel”; as something other.”
— Duncan Barford

Symbolic battles actualized
the gods battle outside
I side with demons
so I can understand their ways
and realize their nature’s illusion.
No sides exist but perspective
The energy is in the realization
I tear down my internal walls
and seek what lies beyond
as the universe spins me in place
— G A Rosenberg

Blessings, G

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Angel of the Morning by G A Rosenberg

Tesseract Unraveled by G A Rosenberg