Realization

This is me coming to a greater understanding of the universe through the fruits of my meditation practice.  Growth is the slow movement of vines over a thicket, the breath of living progress.  The empty cup is filled with understanding.

Patience is one of the hardest lessons for me.  I want understanding now!  I want knowledge now!  However there are roads that can only be walked and experienced. Thus the journey becomes the destination.

Recommended Listening:
Claustrum
Penitential

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I usually don't do this sort of thing...

I usually don't link to such viral videos, but I actually stopped and watched this one and it moved me to tears.  He is such an eloquent speaker for a nineteen year old.  I didn't realize that I had been waiting to hear these words 'from the horse's mouth as it were.  I watched it three times and found myself crying.  Please take a look.

Special thanks to Moveon.org for sharing.

Weekly Mandala: Chaos Star Spinning Happiness

This echoes back to Karma and my Sending Out post, but with the addition of the Chaos Star.  Never fight fair.  Nature doesn’t.  However, I do not mean this in the sense of being vicious or vindictive.  Turns guns into flowers, hate into orgasms, conflict into understanding.  Undermine everything  and transform the World.  This is the lesson of Pluto in Capricorn (2008-2023)  combined with Neptune in Pisces (2011-2025) and Uranus in Aries (2010-2019). These forces become the water of life, dissolving the old structures of our world and releasing knowledge and energy.

Our challenge becomes keeping pace with this evolutionary force.  Our world doesn’t end with the finalizing of the Mayan calendar cycle.  It transforms beyond our previous understanding of it.  Try explaining our current world state to someone with a 19^th century worldview and you begin to see. Heck, try explaining our world to someone from the beginning of the 20^th century!  We are in the throes of birth change.  We are becoming the future.  MUTATE NOW!

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Weekly Mandala: Through the Window of the Flesh

Orgone Energy emerging like a flower through the window of the flesh.

Recommended Listening:
Hans Zimmer
Waiting for a Train
Inception OST

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Weekly Mandala: Mushroom Elder Watching

Recent experiences have led me to agree with Terrence Mckenna concerning Mushroom consciousness.

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Occupy Now

The old world is dying and the new world is being born.  Do not listen to the evening news - they are bought and paid for.  This is only the beginning - Occupy and be counted.  If you think the last two links aren't related, just follow the idea of SOPA and PROTECT IP to their logical conclusions and you will see.  Our government has been bought and paid for.

~Occupy Wall Street

~Occupy Together

~We Are the 99 Percent

~The Other 99 (Ustream - live)

~STOP SOPA

~Fight for the Future

Weekly Mandala: Sending Out

The Nature of Karma revealed.  It is a simple admonition that what you send out returns to you, but I feel that it is one of those tenants that you cannot truly understand until you observe it for yourself.  A difficult task for anyone of intensity, for the intensity you send out returns to you.  As above, so below.

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Weekly Mandala: Open All Night

Yearning can only be satisfied by the successful completion of desire.

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Cat Shaman in BioMech Mushroom Gear Visiting the Tundra of Crystals

After an experience earlier this year, an element of the psycheldelic has creeped into my work.  I can't say that I am disappointed or disinterested, just following that strange bunny down the hole to see where it all leads.

Recommended Listening:
Phutureprimitive
Xotica
Kinetik

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Weekly Mandala: Gift of the Doll People

I really don't have a lot to say on this one at the moment.  My brain has been ravaged by the beast of moving - nom, nom, nom.  However, after viewing this again, I really really want a tall glass of strawberry lemonade.  :-P

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Weekly Mandala: Deeper and The Peacock Diamond

These two were created from the same source material.

On top we have a tunnel entrance to the underworld guarded by four angry armored heads.  Or are those four bearded gurus with strange headdresses.  Regardless, the tunnel goes all the way down.

On the bottom we have an otherworldly diamond, but not without its own level of trepidation with the four masked figures lurking behind the central cross shape.  Perhaps this is merely an illusion and the top mandala is the truth revealed when the deception falls away.

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Weekly Mandala: Home Lotus

A comfy and peaceful emanation.   This one was developed from a photo of a friends home.  However, the lighting was very dark and the colors were much more intense.  His home is a very comfy place though.  :-)  A little bright restful spot shining within the past few dark months.

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The Black Goat

This one is an echo of The Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel.  Also there feels to be an influence of Pluto here as well.  Not completely sure why this one is called the Black Goat.  I knew that was the title once it was complete, but not completely sure why.  The Piece isn't exactly black or goat.  There is definitely an angelic feeling here.  Perhaps there is a bit of Baphomet in there, but not so much on the Shub Niggurath.

OOP - I may be wrong there...LOL...I just re -read some on Shub and considering what I've gone through the past two months and the heavy influence of Binah (Saturn in Libra - 3 of Swords) in my life recently.  Shub might be spot on.

I also had a strong feeling of Odin and Metatron simultaneously while working on this.  Perhaps black goat is a misnomer on my part.  I may be pulling Shub in because of my current experiences and it may have nothing at all to do with this piece.  There is definitely a mixed bag here regardless.

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