tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300638153736343532024-03-05T02:38:38.679-08:00The Stygian PortSynchromysticism, Synchronicity, and Symbolism.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01612156064544756274noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230063815373634353.post-30301248273987728642015-10-30T22:11:00.000-07:002015-10-30T22:11:51.150-07:00The Sleepwalker<blockquote class="tr_bq">
I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand millions of atmospheric pressure, shall explode and blow up the globe. ... [the Americans] are great boilermakers. — Jules Verne, <i>Five Weeks in a Balloon</i></blockquote>
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INT. HIGH SCHOOL CLASSROOM - DAY 1</blockquote>
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A WEIRD FLICKERING WHITE LIGHT strobes the screen, accompanied by PROJECTOR NOISE and an OFFSCREEN CONTROL VOICE.</blockquote>
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5...4...3...2...1...detonate!</blockquote>
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MARTY MCFLY, 17, a good looking kid wearing Porsche mirrored sunglasses. The<br />
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Marty McFly doesn't end up watching an atomic bomb blast in the final version of <i>Back to the Future</i>, but is instead facing a giant speaker which blows him and everything around him straight back as if he were hit by such a blast.<br />
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By now everyone in the sync community, as well as many normal people, are familiar with just about every aspect of the <i>BttF</i> trilogy, including the references in it to other movies, such as: how the audio equipment Marty jacks in to has on it a label which directly references the controls used to drop a nuke from the bomber in <i>Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb</i>. This and other sync community finds indicate both intentional references to fears of a potential world war as well as unintentional references to the event which took that place in history.<br />
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Marty's bomb-like blast occurs at 8:25AM, ten minutes later in the day than the atomic blast over Hiroshima, Japan, which was at 8:15AM. It would be nice if these were the same time, but it's close enough to warrant the mention.<br />
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In the draft of the script quoted above, Doc Brown, Marty's scientist friend (and owner of the blown speaker), is described as one of the world's greatest nuclear physicists. In the movie, Doc's truck has a bumper sticker which reads "one nuclear bomb can ruin your whole day."<br />
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Going through <i>Back to the Future</i> trivia, I discovered that early on, the time machine, or at least the version required to send Marty <i>back to the future</i>, was originally conceived as a refrigerator driven to the site of a nuclear test. If this sounds familiar, it's because this exact scenario plays out in <i>Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull</i>. (Without the time travel, that is.) Oddly enough, the DeLorean arrives freezing cold after time traveling, and Doc even builds a refrigerator in 1885.<br />
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<br />Marty is, of course, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046729/?ref_=tttr_tr_tt"><i>The Atomic Kid</i></a> referenced on the movie marquee in 1955 Hill Valley, seen below.<br />
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Down the block at the Essex theater there is a movie starring pre-presidential Ronald Reagan: <i>Cattle Queen of Montana</i>. (An actor in this film is said by the writer to have influenced his Doc Brown character.) Reagan popularized the phrase "morning in America" which we hear in the Cafe 80's of 2015 Hill Valley. In a more dilapidated 1985, the theater is showing the porn <i>Orgy American Style,</i> which stars the same actor who plays Red the bum of Hill Valley, George Buck Flower. In fact, George plays a bum in pretty much every movie which has ever required one, such as <i>Wishmaster</i> and <i>They Live.</i> The latter film mocks Reagan's slogan of "morning in America" when a dead<i>ish </i>Ghoul gives an optimistic speech on TV. Reagan is also known for allowing cocaine smuggling into the US and trying to put nukes in space during the Cold War.<br /><br />The themes of nuclear armageddon are as <i>heavy</i> as plutonium in these films. Both Doc and Marty wear radiation suits and when 1955 Doc sees the video of 1985 Doc wearing it, he says "Of course! Because of all of the fallout from the atomic wars." A recent <a href="https://www.rt.com/usa/319999-cuban-nuclear-apocalpyse-revealed/">news article</a> reveals that at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis in late October of 1962 both sides had nearly launched their nukes. Undoubtedly, young Robert Zemeckis was influenced by Cold War fears of a looming apocalypse.<br />
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1985 Doc's dog is name Einstein (or "Einey") after one of Doc's scientist idols who we see portraits of in his 1955 home; though his dog there is called Copernicus, hinting at his interest in astronomy which we see explored in 1885 where he and his girlfriend bond over a mutual interest in Jules Verne. Poor Einey (the scientist) was given a little too much credit for the atom bomb, though perhaps he should be credited for inspiring Doc's hairstyle.<br />
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Below, Doc and Marty react to the bright flash of the nuclear powered time machine and gunpowder flash of their picture being taken in front of the clock components.<br />
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In fact, seeing <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjJzod0Qn8tqDPez4uHDJVU03S3kG9KZe7A6SdiOMKirz34Fmjuo2wT9q8QnZvvH9tFO6hz3zyeLWhHIV7Qw7LkR7MACfgTyXdRS6tO6vwmrbVx6NA3hpMjepm5i-TWrjyc6dgwOlbevE/">Radioactive Man and Fallout Boy</a> together like this in front of the exposed clock internals at the end of the <i>BttF trilogy</i> brought to mind the classic images of the <i>Trinity</i> nuclear test site:</div>
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The bomb was known as Christy's Gadget. We might see the plutonium powered DeLorean as Christopher Lloyd's gadget. Anyways, check out that clock tower. The circular opening can be seen as both an eye-like circumpunct and the symbol for a hydrogen atom (hydrogen bomb?). Remember that crazy clock tower lady? Old four-eyes is standing in front of the Third Eye bookstore where two eye-in-triangle symbols can be seen. The "third eye" (in-a-triangle) is of course the clock tower, as seen on her button.</div>
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Speaking of Indiana Jones (we were, weren't we?), he gets nuked in his refrigerator (time machine concept) in a model city. Doc Brown makes a model Hill Valley to demonstrate how the lightning strike will power the DeLorean's trip <i>back to the future</i>. Just this week I was going through my dads old record collection and found the Supertramp albums, <i>Crime of the Century</i> and <i>Breakfast in America</i> (eat your heart out, Ronnie). Both Doc's model and the Supertramp model use various household objects, all painted the same color. Syncheads are aware that by flipping the album horizontally, we reveal the "crime of the century," that is: 9/11 and the Twin Towers.</div>
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As now famously pointed out in the <i>mockspiracy</i> video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1ULjJ3EqyY">Back to the Future Predicts 9/11</a>, various clues apparently point towards the events of 9/11, especially when Marty is actually sent <i>back to the future</i>. Below we can see a glowing 9 and a flaming 11. The clock <i>tower</i> has just been struck, and the flaming pole is probably a genuine reference to the <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-WAwUAzVkawv3Vk9NELsEluUGF7Vari_dXLuclOyA6R_eOkswvejwqMVZe6oIzQIYy2iRwwC-5hDl2u2Jh6KY-hGY_CMyJ5bxnn0VmHmecUpWZBvNMHMDyxKr0dwB-W6_u5PgZJuu8nY/">liberty torch</a> seen in <i>BttF2</i>, which places this scene symbolically in <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2pgQ_KInVwvEGQOrs6WiLDAQCMxWi_HcJq-ky2_zdVqxDFH_uoxT8hy2nXggxCDOsOMr6R6wprBRSCQgDaMOGrLOd-wqFSx2IDI1_d1UEjyiFYaqlv13x83YWEiGD43dhUXGowoNv-LU/">New York</a>.</div>
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As the above scene unfolds, Marty writes a letter to Doc, 30 years from then, warning him about Arab terrorists. The aforementioned video points out that Marty apparently appears 30 years later in another Zemeckis film, <i>The Walk</i>, where an equally diminutive Joseph Gordon-Levitt dresses almost identically as <i>BttF2's</i> Marty. Though, to be fair, almost everyone in <i>BttF</i> seems to be wearing a red undershirt.<br />
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Taking it one step further, Joseph Gordon-Levitt also stars in <i>Looper</i> where his older self <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnFMTav7ZWeCK8h1cAX5V3C8w0uLgekyjrNCnOiHr0rDDQ-zbwUjcFyoFlzuUG9rP_G0uIvHUrTJ06BEau8hzStCkcZiHbITlhxlweVAlGoVViMvmtjrDNJI2Bf83dio_y5P_Ba7gRf30/">dresses in a similar fashion</a>. His older self happens to be the end of a 30-year time loop, the same time-frame in which Marty is warning Doc about the terrorist attack. Some more <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOhjk9cW1ySl28VR5XGbxagABUgAcTjtPVkMmBYeWNmww-T8V4S9FBvk6SFXPxnrQEJ2FOIKoW3_nPFG3r0gnHpH2LtYoNwOFlTSsjjsiMeNmWJyuRT950KJDm3ZOUwDAP-qBCcHORy6w/">synchromystic fodder</a> can be found in <i>Halloween H20</i> where, only 20 and not 30 years after <i>Halloween</i>, Joseph Gordon-Levitt appears following the tune of Mr. Sandman, the same song which plays when Marty visits 1955, as well as when he re-visits 1955 dressed in the black and red of Joseph in <i>The Walk</i>. <i>*WHEW*</i><br />
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When he arrived in 1955, the first comment made about Marty's gull-winged vehicle is that it looks "like an airplane, <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmY2aGorXpbA3uSGYmqn2NrOnvb9F_yNgifiE1pG0Y7acYszWSeqBUJpYD2iFS11PYfr3yWrft-zQsD2fYUzkSLiw-naNgTSIqkBtQaVoIRJmKT9KQPpncnxXQRANNRjioh2HO74nX4Z0/">without wings</a>." Marty Mc<b>Flies</b> between <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBzuzIDalvhIgwKgJLKH4czswPrNUpGH-KhZitpaRjCPHgrw9wDTXCdLSoEGQXoQLfM0YMvpbtAdNGar9-VNafL1lSSndZMqqrVvY2tUUi0LMKNGtjdT6f5leekheIbmxO466ghuclfrc/">two pillars</a> (read: <i>towers</i>) on his way to the future. At the end of <i>BttF</i>, Doc arrives from the future with a now flying DeLorean. The airplane comment was made by Mr. Peabody whose prized twin pines become the symbol of the city and the name of the mall where the time machine is first used. Marty drives away from Peabody's Twin Pines ranch running over one of the titular pines, causing the future to change to reflect this now lone pine situation.<br />
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<i>writer bob gale's father would have been <b>33</b> on november 5th 1955</i></div>
<br />Much has been made about duality and singularity in human existence. Generally we live in a dualistic world, where the ideal path is the singular middle ground between extremes. (Speaking of one (L<u>ONE</u> PINE), Ein (Einey) in the language of <i>Ein</i>st<i>ein</i> (German) means: <u>one</u> (God I love parentheticals!)!)<br />
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The Twin Towers have been immortalized in sync research as a <i>stargate of cosmic consciousness</i>. It helps that the <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvpIptuH2EjAz6kCfMYr9eptR0l6zhfBVp7huLwTUFO26xlpPJ5DOvpQWhzb4TSKgHB07p7phFlknkr69S38AUBe8vFteuoQXLpWq1iEOPMQg8Nojhd6rNEQzCoOrzv09CjgVcZrmGB4s/">Millenium Hilton</a> bordering ground zero was designed to look like the monolith-stargate from <i>2001: A Space Odyssey</i>. Another twin, the show <i>Twin Peaks</i>, includes a <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSWqZJelWBpAIAja3nec7fB9VdIWrnH0WZSXsceiwus9gY29ge1p6MpT65xBtQbtSs1NiZvhyaBjUdQn91a0w4MtsKxgza7Cx-LcAsX0v1BcKDOC0UqINWlZnFfqQHevYVSntwAwgv8uM/">gateway</a> to another dimension hidden in the forest among several non-pine trees. Ever aware of parallel themes, I found it interesting that in the apocalyptic landscape of <i>Grave of the Fireflies</i>, two children expect to meet their mother at the <i>twin pines</i>. She dies soon after and is buried under a <i>lone</i> tree.<br />
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Marty, in his radiation suit, is surprised to see that his entire housing area is all gone.<br />
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Speaking of parallel themes in anime (we were, weren't we?), I noticed some similarities between <i>Back to the Future</i> and <i>Cowboy Bebop</i>. Specifically between <u>E</u>mmett "<u>D</u>oc" Brown and Radical <u>Ed</u>ward.<br />
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When the character Edward is first introduced in <i>Bebop</i>, she flies the Bebop ship by remote. When Emmett is first introduced, he drives the car by remote.<br />
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<i>operation northwoods planned to fly planes by remote.. just sayin'</i></div>
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Ein, the dog in <i>Bebop</i>, is the result of an experiment to turn him into a data dog, and he is therefore extremely intelligent. Einey in <i>BttF</i> is probably of average canine intelligence, though he <i>is</i> the world's first time traveler.<br />
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I find it interesting that a dog is the first to open the time portal. Keep in mind that, symbolically, dog are psychopomps who help the dead cross-over, and are guides in the spirit world or the land of the dead. Take for instance the small dog in <i>BeetleJuice</i> who is actually responsible for the couple's death by removing his weight from the plank of wood that kept their car balanced above the river.<br />
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Fans of <i>Cowboy Bebop</i> have speculated that the crew is actually dead and in purgatory. The whole crew has suffered some sort of past (fatal?) injury and trauma which they need to correct before they can move on. In the post-show wrap up for episode Toys in the Attic, where almost the whole crew becomes deathly ill, Ed says that all but her have died and that the show will now be called "Cowgirl Edward." (In the next episode everyone is fine again.....*pause for impact*...) Moving on, the Black Lodge found in the woods of <i>Twin Peaks</i> is a similar limbo-like weigh-station. And Marty, who can see <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjEyQhSl-JpACTpz7KqEe3zoQAAYKcMpdKhoagE0Qf22B1m0RMWyKJ0Yl8WWU9Y5ScVCE_dVlrMbY-bB4oSt4mUoPB0UC9q4TN8s1un84wMjGckk6d4vHa-dMW8lsuEX949ddMruByRIw/">dead people</a> in <i>The Frighteners</i>, is identified as a <i>space zombie from Pluto</i> when he arrives in 1955. I should remind my readers (or did you all move on?) that Pluto is the god of the underworld, and that zombies are dead things.<br />
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<i>and he pissed off nerds by calling himself darth vader from planet vulcan</i></div>
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We learn in <i>BttF</i> that in the normal unaltered time-line Marty gets into a car accident because he couldn't back down when called "chicken." Even Marty's <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb-7kXg4bqCe1z_OjRabstHKKFDaCjQo7qi4eBc5H38QNeijQHPgfBvJPwbwPflICPjEGzj8x5gFnvdhDwS0cDhCxEzYH4-ceFKqHQvSmh61oDKEhwgL9LTv3y8_Aiu06XP1cszVe1sDo/">foolish</a> father is killed in <i>BttF2</i>. Doc is killed almost instantly as well. The limbo theme is not supposed to be taken literally, however, so we don't have to see them as <i>actually</i> being dead. (They are.)<br />
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When Marty McFly first time travels he starts to freak out and tries to calm himself by saying that it's all a dream: "Okay, McFly, Get a grip on yourself! <b>It's all a dream!</b> Just a very. Intense. Dream." In <i>BttF</i>, Marty watches <i>The Honeymooners</i> episode The Man From Space with his younger past family.<br />
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<i>the original darth vader from planet vulcan</i></div>
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However, the episode Marty would have actually seen airing on that date in 1955 would have been one titled The Sleepwalker. (It's all a goddamn dream, <i>dammit!</i>) In it, the radical character <b>Ed</b> Norton is sleepwalking due to an unconscious desire to find his <b>dog</b> which went missing when he was a boy. The dog is pulling him walking into the land of dreams. The subsequent episodes never revisit this and we're left to wonder if he keeps sleepwalking.<br />
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<i>Cowboy Bebop, the Movie: Knockin' on Heaven's Door</i> has a pretty obvious title about the crew's situation when it is read literally. They are dead and trying to get into heaven, but they have some issues to work out before they do. It may be figurative since physical life is considered death or sleep of the spirit. Aboriginal people of Australia believe their "Dreamtime" spirit-world is real while this world is false; like the Hindu concept of <i>maya</i> which says that all is illusion.<br />
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Hero of the <i>Bebop</i> series Spike, and his friend-turned-enemy Vicious, come from Mars and it is on Mars where Spike is injured (shot in his eye). There he gets close to Julia while her boyfriend Vicious is fighting on Titan. Interestingly, in Kurt Vonnegut's book <i>The Sirens of Titan</i>, a space explorer falls victim to an anomaly in space and becomes a sort-of quantum figure stretched between the sun and the star Betelgeuse, which is phonetically identical to the movie I mentioned above named <i>BeetleJuice</i> where, according to the script, the land of the dead <i>is on motherfucking Titan!</i> In the <i>Bebop</i> movie, antagonist Vicious is on Titan with equally antagonistic Vincent who is basically a Vicious twin created for the movie to fill in as Spike's dark-half. (Notice that they both have V-names. Clever.) Spike even says that he and Vincent share the same soul. This is another way of presenting the movie trope: "we're not so different, you and I," which hints at the fact that the hero and villain are two sides of the same coin.<br />
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In timeline-A of <i>BttF2</i>, Marty finds out that his dad has been murdered. He says "It's like we're in hell or something." Doc replies, "No, it's Hill Valley, though I can't imagine hell being much worse!" I think they're both right, and that once again we're being told that where we exist is the same place as the hell we learn about in mythology and religion.<br />
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Having themes of death and the underworld actually fits in pretty nicely since Halloween is when the veil between the two worlds is said to be at it's thinnest. Oh yeah, did you notice that although all the dates in <i>Back to the Future</i> bookend the holiday, there isn't any sign that anyone is decorating for it? Seems kinda odd huh? Well, dates and times changed around as the script underwent revisions, but it needed to be close to November 5th (for the writer's dad's birthday) and October 21st hints at the 1.21 gigawatts needed to power the flux capacitor. It probably would have been distracting to include Halloween decorations unless it was part of the story.<br />
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Interestingly, the <i>Bebop</i> movie is also set around Halloween, and it <i>is</i> part of the story. Antagonist Vincent, who constantly harps about purgatory and how death is like dreaming, wants to release a virus from Halloween parade balloons.<br />
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He, and anyone affected by this virus, will see golden butterflies as their mind starts to go. Fireflies are used in <i>Grave of the Fireflies</i> (I bet you could have guessed) as a symbol of death and of souls of the dead.<br />
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Spike gets some old farts to fire up their antique airplanes and dust the city with a vaccine. The city in question happens to have a very familiar looking skyline.<br />
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We live in strange times indeed. Sync enjoyed fame on Back to the Future day, October 21st, 2015, when <a href="http://www.cc.com/full-episodes/lo56rq/-midnight-with-chris-hardwick-tuesday--october-20--2015-season-3-ep-03014">pop culture</a> and <a href="https://0knight.wordpress.com/2015/10/22/sync-hits-the-headlines-the-day-back-is-to-the-future/">mainstream media</a> caught wind of it. At the same time we have Donald Trump running for president whom the writer of <i>BttF</i> claims he modeled his rich <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx3OWtX3CW-6Lh8bMTWzeSRXcaQrkxpQTlNeCEHY_Tml61ga5230CgDM7VeLY1slUMjBZlDv5NPtSwYUhpYZb80drlWScIEFR_9VxER6IYCx8PhbxRJ0ndyFCWzdKMz8Y_a2druhv_yz8/">Biff</a> character off of. The Simpsons also foresaw this <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxQXANh1HX8FnNXFOY8F_fJFSL92DFxqxnDfxL7c5dawZKyOyhYn7r3HIDi5ri9kItK2Yxng0tIQtAFlKW3HXA6GrE8EEaGEytq_6ZPs0DToP-T5TMLU_ros5AVyxo1onDJeiNu7qadow/">unfortunate possibility</a>. Even Rage Against The Machine <a href="http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/10/rage-against-the-machine-predicted-and-mocked-donald-trumps-presidential-campaign-16-years-ago/">predicted</a> a dystopian world where such a thing was a <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKJHMvKYN-vceEoxKnoG8-6vlNPaFYHcgDss7TEuafXnj1g6CoiMpA7aC75U4YVLwCb07pUmefKSgT2n5ra-PXa25UVPFwWrBoBZIjYwMbT77CIJHBhNLjgnKxiKeYXP7GZ8QDgQGCavo/">possibility</a>. Trump himself made some <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/donald-trump-911-sept11-the-america-we-deserve/2015/10/20/id/697131/">predictions</a> in his book about the Twin Towers and bin Laden. And Trump, who famously created Trump Tower in New York, is what you call the face cards of the Tarot, including the Tower Trump card.<br />
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"People always ask me, 'Why do you risk death?' For me, this is life." ― Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Philippe Petit in <i>The Walk</i></blockquote>
To live is to court death. Each attempt to really live is almost an attempt at death, because when life is finally fulfilled, when the purpose of purgatory is faced and resolved, then we can die to be reborn in the real world; the world where spirit is dominant. Soul death is the fall into the matrix of matter. But it is within the dark soil that the seed sprouts and the tree grows back towards the light.<br />
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Jennifer: "What does that mean?"</blockquote>
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Doc: "It means your future hasn't been written yet. No one's has! Your future is whatever you make it, so make it a good one."</blockquote>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01612156064544756274noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230063815373634353.post-52795910420950787862014-08-17T14:12:00.001-07:002015-10-29T23:39:32.289-07:00Syncnado 2: The Second One<span style="color: red;"><b>or: The Jungian Thing</b> </span><br />
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There I was, standing before my mostly movie themed tee-shirt collection, straining to choose three shirts to wear during the upcoming sync summit in Olympia, Washington. I could have ventured down multiple paths here with the themes my clothing collection covers: music, Japanese, movies, ironic-Japanese, television, etc; you get the picture.</blockquote>
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This was actually taking place a few hours before I had to wake up to catch my plane, because I’m a lazy bastard who waits until the last minute. But you know that.</blockquote>
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I settled on two shirts from my “silver-age Jeremy” collection and one from the “modern Jeremy” collection. I didn’t know it at the time, but my decision would trigger a Syncnado which would change them all forever.</blockquote>
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Day 1: Charlie Don’t Surf</h3>
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Friday morning I arrive in Sea-Tac and make my way to the rental car hub to meet <ahref blog="" mkultrasound=""><a href="http://beingthere723.blogspot.com/">David</a> </ahref>and Amy. This was my second sync summit (explaining the title of this article) and the second time meeting David, who at some point I admitted I had a sync-crush on; but then everyone loves to hear him wax esoteric, so I don't think I'm alone in saying that. Also meeting us was <ahref http:="" lagachettecosmique.blogspot.com=""><a href="http://lagachettecosmique.blogspot.com/">JJ</a></ahref>, or: “the French Jeremy.” Almost immediately David and I reveal that we are both currently reading books by Carl Jung. Mine is <i>Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies.</i> David had also stepped on a spider before coming to the summit, and had a bruise on his foot which bothered him the whole time. I think his better half confirmed the dual puncture wounds of a spider bite on his foot, but this is information you don't need until later (and that's how I'm going to get you to read this whole thing!).<br />
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At some point David mentions, and this will become a running sync for the weekend, that the <a href="http://thesyncbook.com/oly2014">Olympia Sync Summit</a> is Friday and Saturday August 8th-9th, the anniversary of the Manson Family murders and the death of Sharon Tate whose body was found on a zebra skin rug.<br />
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From Patrick Svec's blog: <a href="http://overlaphotel.blogspot.com/2014/02/sharon-tate.html">The Blog of Caverns</a>:<br />
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On August 8th, 1969, The Beatles took the photographs for their Abbey Road album cover, a white VW Beetle sits on the roadside. That same day, Manson declares, "Now is the time for Helter Skelter." Later that night, after midnight, therefore attributed to August 9th, is when Tate and her house guests were murdered.</blockquote>
The itinerary for the weekend consisted of a few interesting and repeating numbers: meet at Last Word Books (111 Cherry St), check in at Fertile Ground (311 9th Ave), Happy Hour at Dillingers (404 S. Washington), Radio8Ball at Rhythm & Rye (311 Capitol Way), and then back to Fertile Ground (311, 3x11=33) for Saturday’s events. Repeating digits were a big theme of <a href="http://www.secretsinplainsight.com/">Scott Onstott’s</a> presentation on Saturday.<br />
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The main event Friday was <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0427470/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1">Andras Jones’</a> Radio8Ball Show, hosted by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/andyshmushkin">Andy Shmushkin</a>. You can tell Andras and Andy apart because Andy has a mustache and likes to “bring the dick out,” whatever that means. The musical guest whose songs would answer our questions was <a href="https://www.facebook.com/peter.d.connelly">Peter David Connelly</a>.<br />
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The <a href="http://thestygianport.blogspot.com/2013/11/eggtoplasm-in-shell.html">last time I went to a Sync Summit</a> the sync heads in attendance were part of the Radio8Ball Show and helped interpret the musical answers. That was scary enough. This time there was no direct participation by us, unless picked at random to be a contestant. And, of course, the most socially anxious stage-frightened person there (me) gets picked to be on stage; and this time it was on camera. Unfortunately for Smushkin, I get total brain-lock when put on the spot, whether it be in person or on camera. I’m more of a thinker than a talker, so like last time, I was thinking a lot of big thoughts but saying very little. Lucky for you, if you like tragic comedies, you should be able to see the video evidence for yourself soon enough.<br />
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The question I put to the Pop Oracle was this: What should I accomplish before I die?<br />
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The answer was: She’s not going home with you.<br />
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Typical.<br />
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This song was penned by Peter David Connelly (do I have to say all three names like he’s an assassin?) when he was with the otherwise all girl band The Bangs and is on <a href="http://www.discogs.com/Mona-Reels-Volume-One/release/2295834">this album</a> from his group The Mona Reels. Peter explains that the song was about all the rude drunken requests by audience members for the females to stay at their house for the night in the hopes that something would happen. Although I’ve never rudely or drunkenly propositioned anyone to spend the night with me, the result is still the same.<br />
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It’s an interesting continuation of the previous sync summit Radio8Ball question. In my blog about it I mentioned that I regretted not bringing up Truman’s favorite show within <i>The Truman Show</i>: “Show Me the Way to Go Home.” That of course is related to my question of what I need to accomplish before I die, as death is ‘like going home.’<br />
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After getting over the initial shock of “of-fucking-course it was a song that perfectly describes my life” I started pondering the idea that “She” is the lost or hidden feminine, the Shekinah, the the veiled goddess, Isis as the Mysteries, and the virgin-whore dichotomy. I still don’t know what to make of it, but I had initially wondered if it spoke to a duality, and if I was both the annoying guy in the crowd and also the guy on stage or across the veil. When I “go home” the whore will be revealed as virgin, or vice-versa, so technically the “she” I see doesn’t go home with me, because she’s already there in her true form. In fact I had spun the Radio8Ball wheel of fate to number 4 whose song had already been played, so I re-picked from the Radio8Ball cards and got 7, which I took to be a dichotomy as well with the character for 4 meaning “death” in Japanese (“Shi”) and 7 being a fortuitous number. Then I was reminded that Japanese for 7 also contains the same character as 4 (“Shi-chi”), which I guess means that the number and resulting song I received was already hinting at a sort of merging of opposites (death and luck). Aaanyways, I said something about how maybe I need to reconcile the opposites internally, and Andy seconded the idea adding that that’s something we all need to do. And then I kinda stopped talking because I was still trying to figure out if it’s not simply saying that I ain’t getting laid anytime soon.<br />
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The real fun was the sync discussion surrounding the event. I was wearing a black and white shirt with the face of Charlie Manson on it. <a href="http://tonecoloralchemy.com/">Ezra Sandzer-Bell</a> gave a presentation about Philip K. Dick and his ZEBRA phenomenon, which included an image of the Abby Road album cover complete with black and white crosswalk; themes that would continue to influence/highlight the syncs of the weekend. (Recall that this day was the Abby Road picture and Manson’s Helter Skelter anniversary) I was also seated in front of the giant black and white yin-yang looking Radio8Ball wheel of fate.<br />
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Speaking of Philip K’s Dick: the libidinal symbolism of the horse (zebra) as being partly phallic in nature (per Carl Jung) was part of <a afewshotstoshaman.blogspot.com="" href="http://afewshotstoshaman.blogspot.com/">Will Morgan’s</a> presentation on Saturday, but by then we had pretty much worked it all out anyways. By the way, it is currently the year of the horse in the Chinese calendar. In <i>VALIS</i>, Philip K. Dick writes himself in as another character named Horselover Fat which is derived from his name: Philip means 'horse lover' in Greek, and Dick is German for 'fat.'<br />
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Unfortunately for you I have a terrible memory and can only give a taste of the syncnado whirling through the weekend. Speaking of, Patrick just reminded me and everyone that the last question read in Radio8Ball, from the submitted but not chosen questions, was: "Why is zebra such a dick?" (ZEBRA & Philip K Dick once again.) Some themes seemed to come up again and again the whole time.<br />
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I wore my Join The Army shirt on Saturday. Like the previous one it references a war movie, this time <i>Full Metal Jacket</i>, with a paraphrased quote from the above video. I thought it was synchronous that Will Morgan had a shirt with the words PE_CE and W_R and a dove holding a letter A, as if you could choose which one you want. The reason this stood out is that the same guy who gives the line on my shirt also has “Born to kill” written on his helmet and wears a peace button: another duality, which he refers to in the movie as “the Jungian thing.”<br />
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When my airplane landed on the day of the summit, the person in the seat next to me got up to grab his luggage and noticed my Charlie Don't Surf shirt, asking “The Clash, or Apocalypse Now?” I didn’t remember that The Clash actually had a song inspired by the line in the movie, so I pointed out that Charles Manson is on my shirt, which he didn’t even notice. I think David said something like the face on my shirt could be mistaken for a random yogi at first glance. Anyways I looked up The Clash’s song and found a video with the movie scene preceding the song and to my surprise Kilgore mentions another synchronicity: the number 86 (or 68).<br />
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In the scene from <i>Apocalypse Now</i>, the discussion about whether to surf Charlie's point includes the information that the break is "six to eight feet" high, and Kilgore sends some guys back to grab boards adding, "bring me my Yater Spoon -- the eight six." 6-8 are my favorite hole cards in Texas Hold’em, and one of the numbers I keep an eye out for.<br />
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“86% Accurate (Only God is Perfect)” – <i>Pi</i><br />
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The second day was really great because everyone was there and we got to walk the Olympia Tree of Life which is outlined in Andras’ book <i>Accidental Initiations</i>. (Books by Sync Book Press are available <a href="https://thesyncbook.com/">here</a>.) Ezra brought out his pet Zebra and placed it at each sphere on the tree and played the appropriate notes per his Tone Color Alchemy. There was a funny synchronicity when Andras mentioned losing balance and the zebra toy fell over at that exact moment. There were a lot of great moments lost to my bad memory, but the one I want to talk about was the 6th sphere on the tree, Tiphareth.</div>
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<a href="http://www.martyleeds33.com/">Marty Leeds</a> volunteered to explain the mathemagical symbolism of this sphere, but afterward I got to throw some of my own observations at him. Tiphareth, the 6th sphere, is equated with the sun. The object at this location on the tree was a hexagonal gazebo. The heart chakra, associated with the sun, is also a hexagon, a green hexagon, and the gazebo had a green wooden rail going around it and a green roof I believe. (On my now defunct tumblr account, I had a picture from a comic where a green six-sided sun is mentioned, and the Egyptian Ra is also associated with a green sun.) There was a phone number over the gazebo for reserving it for parties and part of the phone number was an 888, and all the digits of the phone number add to 36 (a veiled 666 for the magic square of the <i>sun</i>). The 6th sphere on the tree of life happens to have 8 paths connecting to it. I also mentioned that turtle shells have 13 sections on them which are six-sided, but have lines running through them which form 8-spoked stars, a combination of 6 and 8.</div>
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Speaking of the turtle shells, <a href="https://vimeo.com/user6039789">Joe Alexander</a> has a tattoo with a basketball skull which looks quite a lot like the underside of a turtle shell. At the end of an <a href="http://thestygianport.blogspot.com/2009/03/journey-back-home.html">old post of mine</a> I write about turtles being connected to Babylon aka: The Gate of God, and compared that with the cross of the fontanelle where the human skull merges as it grows. This spot is known as the Gate of Brahma where the soul escapes from to join Paramatma, the Universal Soul.<br />
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The rest of the day included some great presentations that I wouldn't do justice to if I tried to explain them here. There was Scott Onstott discussing the geo-metry in his new book <a href="https://www.createspace.com/4747760">Quantification</a>, Swami Anantananda Giri introducing us to some ideas from his <a href="http://thesyncbook.com/the-yogic-gospel-of-thomas">Yogic Gospel of Thomas</a>, James Evan Pilato (another guy with the 3 name thing going on) from <a href="http://mediamonarchy.blogspot.com/">Media Monarchy</a> who gave an entertaining talk on The Simpsons, Marty Leeds and the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvsV4WzoTcA">mathematical structure of the human hand</a>, a spoken word presentation (the audio wasn't working) by <a href="https://vimeo.com/user7795391/videos">Will Morgan</a>, a skype-in by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2085910/">Rodney Ascher</a>, and videos by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/barelyHuman11/videos">Joe Alexander</a> and <a href="https://vimeo.com/user4946484/videos">David Plate</a> to round off the looong day.<br />
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The final day was basically spent sitting around having discussions with people who actually nodded their heads as they followed along, rather than stare blankly with their eyes glazed over like we're used to seeing in our day-to-day lives. We're all weird people, and it's really great to be able to be weird together.<br />
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At the end of the first day and on until the end of the third, I had kept bringing up spiders and spider webs, mostly when I was talking to <a href="http://synchromisty.wordpress.com/">Misty Greer</a>. I think she came up to me because her dualistic shirt, Marilyn Manson, was syncing with my shirt, Charlie Manson. And speaking of shirts, I swear I was being followed by men in Captain America shirts all weekend, including <a href="http://gosporn.blogspot.com/">Michael Schacht</a> who changed into his on the first day. Anyhoo, it's probably more that I pay attention to these things, but I have always felt that I have some strange attraction to spider webs and flying insects. And I really don't like bugs in general, especially ones which can jump or fly at my face! (Eeek!) For one, I feel like I attract flying bugs, and I have accidentally scooped up one or two flies or bees in-between my fingers on more than one occasion, just by swinging my arms normally by my side as I walk. Imagine the surprise felt when looking down at the vibrating feeling in your fingers to see two bees trapped there! The first thing I caught accidentally was a fly, then some bees, but there have also been a couple of very humorous moments involving birds in the garage while I'm working on my car. At some point, someone told me that the reason zebra's have those black and white stripes is that it serves as a natural fly repellent, negating the need for a long tail like other horses.<br />
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The other phenomenon is the constant feeling of "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZktNItwexo">walking through spider webs</a>" (so leave a message and I'll call you back). I seem to always get covered in those thin webs baby spiders use to fly around, or webbing strung up in my pathway overnight. Every morning on the way to get my bike from around the side of the house I put my backpack over my head to block any webs I might encounter. In fact, recently on my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/thestygianport">facebook</a> page I shared an image of baby spiders streaming down a silky strand that had become attached to my bike handle which I had unknowingly parked next to Charlotte's Web.<br />
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I think this line of conversing started when I mentioned seeing 'visions' sometimes (Jung's word to replace 'hallucinations' which have a negative connotation), including one of a giant spider hobbling across my ceiling (which I detail <a href="http://thestygianport.blogspot.com/2011/11/man-who-wasnt-there.html">here</a>). While doing some research for my last collaborative book project, <a href="https://www.createspace.com/4735592">CONTACT: Them or Us</a>, I came across some of Whitley Strieber's visions of giant spiders, the size of VW bugs, scrambling up the walls of his bedroom just over his sleeping wife. (Let's not forget the VW Beetle in the Abby Road cover which is part of the "Paul is dead" theory.) There is also the idea of "astral spiders" who spin webs around our world intended to keep us contained here, even containing us from astral projection or remote viewing too far from home.<br />
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Eating as a group at the end of the first day, there was a discussion of Ariadne's thread which she gave to Theseus to help him find his way out of the labyrinth. It was called a "clue" which brings to mind the dark half of the creator of the world of Tron, called CLU (LUCifer), who merges with his other half and brings an end to their fictional world, in much the same way Neo merges with Smith at the end of The Matrix trilogy. That brings things nicely back to my question and possible answer during Radio8Ball with what I/everyone needs to accomplish before they die: the alchemical union of opposites.<br />
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In regards to the insect UFO dream, Jung brings up the theory that aliens are insects from another planet, and their exoskeleton happens to look metallic, like the chitinous shell of a beetle. There's an anaology in the way UFOs behave, speeding around and then pausing to hover over an area, and then zooming off again, like a flying insect looking for food. We have the firefly or lightning bug which produces its own luminescence like a UFO. Also brought up in the footnotes is the book <i>Flying Saucers on the Attack</i> which mentions a report of a "rain of threads" which come from unknown spiders.<br />
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At the beginning of my summit wrap up here I mention that David had a spider bite on his foot. The double-puncture marks are similar to the double-sting of a scorpion. The constellation Scorpio is right next to Ophiuchus, the serpent bearer, whose foot dangles above the galactic central point where Scorpio's stinger is pointing. Scorpio is more of a amalgam of a serpent, the older image of the constellation, and an eagle, the enemy of the serpent or what the serpent transforms into when shot in the heart with the arrow of Sagittarius, the other constellation aiming at galactic center. By the way, at some point in the week probably after the summit, I ended up with two small scabs on my arm as if I suffered a giant double bite or sting.<br />
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Perhaps the spider-UFO in the dream is echoing the alchemical maxim which I'm sure I'm paraphrasing poorly: Visit the center of the earth, and by rectifying what is there through repeated distillations, you will find the stone. The center of "earth"/your torso is your heart, where the stone-seed grows upwards like a tree which the serpent energy climbs until it transforms like Scorpio/Serpent into Aquilla the eagle. At one point while pondering the spider theme, I felt like there was a evolution from the flying bugs I catch on accident to the spiders and webs I attract, to the birds I attract...<br />
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A new collaborative book project just hit the virtual bookshelves. Frank Zero and I (Project Psycube and now ZEROKNIGHT publishing) gathered submissions for a book about alien contact, abductions and all the stuff that goes with these themes: personal stories, synchronicity, conspiracy, and altered states. Only $10 and <a href="https://www.createspace.com/4735592">available at this link here</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Contact-Them-Us-Frank-Zero/dp/1497478243/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1398217075&sr=8-1&keywords=contact+them+or+us">at Amazon.com</a> for a discounted price (though we get $2 less in royalties, so, there's that..) The Kindle version is also <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00K0WMW9U">available at Amazon.com here</a>.</div>
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CONTACT: Them or Us is a collaboration between experiencers and researchers who desire to add to and expand on theories concerning alien abduction and UFO contact. From nuts and bolts ET contact to government conspiracies to theories concerning expanded consciousness, and complete with interviews with some of the top personalities in the field, this volume is sure to contain something for every level of interest.</blockquote>
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"In old traditions they speak of holy mountains. The Meru mountain in India, Mount Kualua of the taoists, Himalaya, Mountain of The Philosophers, the Rosicrucian mountain, the Kabbalistic mountain. <b>There are many holy mountains. The legend is always the same. Nine immortal men live on top of the mountain. From the highest peak they direct our world. They hold the secret to the conquest of death. They are more than forty-thousand years old.</b> [...] But they were once like ourselves. If others have succeeded in conquering death, why must we accept it? I know where the immortals live and how to obtain their secret.” — <a href="http://thestygianport.blogspot.com/2010/01/holy-%20%20mountain-cauda-pavonis.html" target="_blank">The Alchemist, <i>The Holy Mountain</i></a></div>
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"Mount Meru, [...] is a mountain often mentioned in the Tipiṭaka and now identified with the 6638 meters high Mt. Kailash in the western Himalayas. The Tibetans call it Khang Rinpoche. The commentary says the mountain is bent inwards ‘like a crow’s beak’ which is a clear reference to its unusual bent pyramid-shaped summit. In ancient Indian geography, <b>Mt. Meru was believed to be the point at which the four continents met, the highest mountain on earth and, according to later cosmology, the place where the gods dwelt.</b>" — <a href="http://buddhisma2z.com/content.php?id=257" target="_blank">buddhisma2z.com</a></blockquote>
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"Jacob left Beersheba, and went toward Haran. He came to the place and stayed there that night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place to sleep. And he dreamed, and behold, <b>there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it!</b> And behold, the Lord stood above it [or 'beside him'] and said, "I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and to your descendants; and your descendants shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and by you and your descendants shall all the families of the earth bless themselves. Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done that of which I have spoken to you." Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, 'Surely the Lord is in this place; and I did not know it.' And he was afraid, and said, '<b>This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.'</b>" — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%27s_Ladder#Source" target="_blank">wikipedia</a></blockquote>
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"According to Wallis Budge, <b>the Djed is the oldest symbol of Osiris, and symbolizes his backbone and his body in general</b>. He states that originally Osiris was probably represented by the Djed alone, and that he had no other form. He regards the Djed hieroglyph as a conventional representation of a part of his spinal column and gives its meaning as '<b>to be stable, to be permanent, abiding, established firmly, enduring</b>.'</blockquote>
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"The reconstruction of the body of Osiris occurred at a place called Djedu, in the Delta region of Lower Egypt and it was here that the yearly ceremony of 'Raising the Djed Pillar' took place on the last day of the month of Khoiak, the eve of the agricultural New Year. The next day marked the beginning of the four month long season of Pert, or 'Going Forth' during which the lands rose out of the flood waters allowing the fields to be sown.<b> Djedu was also referred to as <i>Per-Asar-Neb-Djedu</i>, meaning 'The House of Osiris - the Lord of Djedu'. The Greeks called it Busiris, after the shortened title <i>Per-Asar</i> - 'The House of Osiris'</b>" — <a href="http://www.pyramidofman.com/Djed/" target="_blank">pyramidofman.com</a></blockquote>
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"Hindu mythology also contains a story about <b>the churning of the Cosmic Ocean</b> in order to obtain Amrita - the nectar of <b>immortal</b> life. At the suggestion of Vishnu the gods, (devas) and demons (asuras) churn the primeval ocean in order to obtain Amrita which will guarantee them immortality. <b>To churn the ocean they used the Serpent King, Vasuki, for their churning-string. For a churning pole they use Mount Mandara placed on the back of a Great Tortoise</b> - the Kurma Avatar of Vishnu." <span style="text-align: justify;">—</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_of_Milk" target="_blank">wikipedia</a></blockquote>
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"According to Angkorologist Eleanor Mannikka, [...] <b>the 91 asuras mark the 91 days between the winter solstice and spring equinox in March, while the 88 devas represent the 88 days to the summer solstice after the equinox period</b>. Mannikka says this is just one of the hidden cosmological meanings coded at Angkor Wat, and that <b>the temple is remarkably attuned to the movement of the sun and moon</b>." — <a href="http://www.veloasia.com/library/buckley/churning_milk.html" target="_blank">veloasia.com</a></blockquote>
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"Koth, the common name of the Pole, means really the axle of the movable upper millstone which goes through the lower fixed one, what is called the "mill-iron." The sphere of heaven was imagined as a turning millstone, and the North Pole as the axle bearing in which the mill-iron turns... Farther to the east, in India, the Bhagavata Purana tells us how the virtuous prince Dhruva was appointed as Pole star. See now The Srimad-Bhagavatam of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa: 'Just as oxen, fastened to a post fixed in the center of a threshing floor, leaving their own station, go round at shorter, middle or longer distances, similarly fixed on the inside and outside of the circle of time, stars and planets exist, supporting themselves on Dhruva; and propelled by the wind, they range in every direction till the end of a kalpa.'" — <a href="http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/hamlets_mill/hamletmill09.htm"><i>Hamlet's Mill</i></a></div>
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"Thus the image travels far and wide by many channels, reaches the North by way of Celtic-Scandinavian transmission and appears in Snaebjorn's account of his voyage of discovery in the Arctic. The nine grim goddesses who 'once ground Amlodhi's meal,' working now that 'host-cruel skerry quern' beyond the edge of the world, are in their turn only the agents of a shadowy controlling power called Mundilfoeri, literally 'the mover of the handle.' The word mundil, says Rydberg, 'is never used in the old Norse literature about any other object than the sweep or handle with which the movable millstone is turned'. Webster's New International Dictionary lists 'mundle': A stick for stirring. Obsolete except for dialectical use. And he is backed by Vigfusson's dictionary which says that "mundil" in "Mundilfoeri" clearly refers to 'the veering round or revolution of the heavens.'" — <a href="http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/hamlets_mill/hamletmill09.htm"><i>Hamlet's Mill</i></a></div>
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"The case is then established. But there is an ambiguity here which discloses further depths in the idea. "'Moendull' comes from Sanskrit 'Manthati,'" says Rydberg, "it means to swing, twist, bore, which occurs in several passages in the Rigveda. Its direct application always refers to the production of fire by friction." [To term it "friction" is a nice way to shut out dangerous terms: actually, the Sanskrit radical math, manth means drilling in the strict sense, i.e., it involves alternate motion as we have it in the famous Amritamanthana, the Churning of the Milky Ocean, and this very quality of India's churn and fire drill has had far-reaching influence on cosmological conceptions.]." — <a href="http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/hamlets_mill/hamletmill09.htm"><i>Hamlet's Mill</i></a></div>
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"So it is, indeed. But Rydberg, after establishing the etymology, has not followed up the meaning. The locomotive engineers and airplane pilots of today who coined the term "joy stick" might have guessed. For the Sanskrit Pramantha is the male fire stick, or churn stick, which serves to make fire. And Pramantha has turned into the Greeks' Prometheus, a personage to whom it will be necessary to come back frequently." — <a href="http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/hamlets_mill/hamletmill09.htm" target="_blank"><i>Hamlet's Mill</i></a></blockquote>
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"The identity of the Mill, in its many versions, with heaven is thus universally understood and accepted. But hitherto nobody seems to have wondered about the second part of the story, which also occurs in the many versions. How and why does it always happen that this Mill, the peg of which is Polaris, had to be wrecked or unhinged? Once the archaic mind had grasped the forever-enduring rotation, what caused it to think that the axle jumps out of the hole? What memory of catastrophic events has created this story of destruction? Why should Vainamoinen (and he is not the only one) state explicitly that <b>another Mill has to be constructed</b>? Why had Dhruva to be appointed to play Pole star--and for a given cycle? For the story refers in no way to the creation of the world. The simple answer lies in the facts of the case. The Pole star does get out of place, and every few thousand years another star has to be chosen which best approximates that position." — <a href="http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/hamlets_mill/hamletmill09.htm" style="text-align: start;" target="_blank"><i>Hamlet's Mill</i></a></blockquote>
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"It is well known that the Great Pyramid, so carefully sighted, is not oriented at our Pole Star but at alpha Draconis, which occupied the position at the pole 5,000 years ago. [There] is quite a collection of myths to show that once upon a time it was realized that the sphere of fixed stars is not meant to circle around the same peg forever and ever. Several myths tell how Polaris is shot down, or removed in some other way." — <a href="http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/hamlets_mill/hamletmill09.htm" style="text-align: start;" target="_blank"><i>Hamlet's Mill</i></a></blockquote>
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"This phenomenon is called the Precession of the Equinoxes, and it was conceived as causing the rise and the cataclysmic fall of ages of the world. Its cause is a bad habit of the axis of our globe, which turns around in the manner of a spinning top, its tip being in the center of our small earth-ball, whence our earth axis, prolonged to the celestial North Pole, describes a circle around the North Pole of the ecliptic,<b> the true "center" of the planetary system</b>, the radius of this circle being of the same magnitude as the obliquity of the ecliptic with respect to the equator: 23 ½ o." — <a href="http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/hamlets_mill/hamletmill09.htm" style="text-align: start;" target="_blank"><i>Hamlet's Mill</i></a></blockquote>
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"The Cube of Space is formed by the three Dragon Axes of the Celestial Sphere , the Ecliptic pole and the Galactic Center-Galactic Anticentre meridian. Equating any pole or axis to the Dragon or Cosmic Serpent makes profound intuitive sense, yet this is further justified when we learn the unmoving Ecliptic Axis points directly at the constellation Draco." <span style="text-align: justify;"> — <a href="http://rundonotwalk.blogspot.com/2008/09/scarlet-dragon.html" target="_blank">rundonotwalk.blogspot.com</a></span></blockquote>
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"The time which this prolonged axis needs to circumscribe the ecliptical North Pole is roughly <b>26</b>,000 years, during which period it points to one star after another: around 3000 B.C. the Pole star was alpha Draconis; at the time of the Greeks it was beta Ursae Minoris; for the time being it is alpha Ursae Minoris; in A.D. 14,000 it will be Vega. The equinoxes, the points of intersection of ecliptic and equator, swinging from the spinning axis of the earth, move with the same speed of 26,000 years along the ecliptic. The constellation that rose in the east just before the sun (that is, rose heliacally) marked the "place" where the sun rested. At this time it was known as the sun's "carrier," and as the main "pillar" of the sky, the vernal equinox being recognized as the fiducial point of the "system," determining the first degree of the sun's yearly circle, and the first day of the year.</blockquote>
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"At Time Zero, the two equinoctial "hinges" of the world had been Gemini and Sagittarius, spanning between them the arch of the Milky Way: both bicorporeal signs--and so were Pisces, and Virgo with her ear of wheat, at the two other corners--to mark the idea that the way (the Milky Way itself) was open between earth and heaven, the way up and the way down, here men and gods could meet in that Golden Age. As will be shown later, t<b>he exceptional virtue of the Golden Age was precisely that the crossroads of ecliptic and equator coincided with the crossroads of ecliptic and Galaxy, namely in Gemini and Sagittarius, both constellations "standing" firmly at two of the four corners of the quadrangular earth."</b> — <a href="http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/hamlets_mill/hamletmill04a.htm" style="text-align: start;" target="_blank"><i>Hamlet's Mill</i></a></blockquote>
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"It is revealing to look at the figure drawn by a West Sudanese Dogon at the request of Professor Zahan, showing <b>the world egg</b>, with the "inhabited world" between the tropics, "le cylindre ou rectangle du monde." The Dogon are fully aware of the fact that the region between the terrestrial tropics is not the best of inhabitable quarters, and so were their teachers of far-off times, the archaic scientists who coined the terminology of myth. What counted was the zodiacal band between the celestial tropics, delivering the houses, and the inns, the "masks" (prosopa), and the disguises to the much traveling and "shape-shifting" planets." — <a href="http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/hamlets_mill/hamletmill04a.htm" style="text-align: start;" target="_blank"><i>Hamlet's Mill</i></a></blockquote>
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<i>Saint John the Evangelist & Saint John the Baptist</i></div>
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"<b>Gemini</b>, as the third sign of the zodiac, these heavenly twins take on the general significance of all symbolic twins (in that they are both divine and mortal, black and white), but Gemini acquire the additional significance of a characteristic phase of the cosmic process as symbolized in the wheel of transformations: the moment in which pure creative forces (Aries and Taurus) is served in two parts, in such a way that one side of dualism is elevated but the other descends into the multiplicity characteristic of phenomena. Marius Shneider has made a profound study of the Gemini-myth in megalithic culture, showing that <b>it has two tendencies, one white; the other black; one creates the other destroys</b>; both these characteristics are indicated by the arms of each of the wins, which in landscape symbolism, are identical to the river of youth and the river of death." — <a href="http://nowhappened.blogspot.com/2010/06/john-adept-mythology-for-new-golden-age.html">nowhappened.blogspot.com</a></div>
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"According to the megalithic conception the mountain of Mars (or Janus) which rises up as a mandorla of the Gemini is the locale of the inversion--<b>the mountain of death and resurrection</b>; the mandorla is another sign of inversion and of interlinking, for <b>it is formed by the intersection of the circle of earth, with the circle of heaven. This mountain has two peaks</b>, and every symbol or sign alludes to this "situation of inversion" is marked by duality or by twin heads." — <a href="http://nowhappened.blogspot.com/2010/06/john-adept-mythology-for-new-golden-age.html">nowhappened.blogspot.com</a></div>
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<i>Mandorla or vesica piscis</i></div>
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<b>"Janus</b>, a god particular to the Italians, with no corresponding divinities among the Greeks, even the ancients were by no means clear as to his special significance; he was however, regarded as one of the oldest and holiest, and most exalted of the gods. In Rome the king and in in later times the <i>rex sacorum</i> sacrificed to him, at every sacrifice he was the remembered first, at every prayer he was first invoked, being mentioned even before Jupiter. In the songs of Salii, <b>he was called the creator god, and the god of gods, he is elsewhere named the oldest of the gods and the beginning of all things</b>."</blockquote>
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"In Zohar; <b>the 'magic head', stands for astral light</b>; in Medieval art it is a symbol of the mind and the spiritual life which explains the frequency in decorative art. Plato asserted in 'Timaeus' that <b>"the human head is the image of the world."</b> In corroboration of this LeBlant points out that <b>the skull, the semi-spherical crown of the human body, signifies the heavens.</b> Clearly the head-symbol here coalesces with that of the sphere as the symbol of oneness.</blockquote>
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"Two, three, or four heads are shown in juxtaposition symbolize a corresponding intensification of a given aspect of head symbolism, thus the Gemini, a symbol of the duality of nature, or of the integrating (but not unifying) link between two principles of creation, are represented by beings with two heads or two faces." <span style="text-align: center;">— </span><a href="http://nowhappened.blogspot.com/2010/06/john-adept-mythology-for-new-golden-age.html" target="_blank">nowhappened.blogspot.com</a></blockquote>
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"It would appear that Janus was first a god of the light and of the sun, who opened the gates of heaven on going forth in the the morning and closed them on returning at evening. In course of time he became the god of all GOING OUT and COMING IN, to whom all places of entrance and passage, all doors and gates were holy. In Rome all doors and covered passages were suggestive of his name. The former were called 'ianuoe', over the latter, the arches which spanned the streets were called 'iani',<b> a term perhaps symbolic of the vault of heaven.</b> Many of these were expressly dedicated to him, especially those that were situated in markets and frequented streets, or at crossroads. He was generally represented as <b>a porter with a staff and key in his hands and with two bearded faces</b> placed back-to-back and looking in opposite directions. He is also the god of entrance (en-TRANCE) into a new division of time, and was therefore saluted every morning as the god of the breaking day, Janus Pater Matutinus or Janus, "the father/mother protector". Under this name, Janus Pater was also<b> the god of creation</b>." <span style="text-align: center;">— </span><a href="http://nowhappened.blogspot.com/2010/06/john-adept-mythology-for-new-golden-age.html" target="_blank">nowhappened.blogspot.com</a></blockquote>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">"This surname <b>JANUS</b> was originally derived from the Hebrew given name YOCJANAN (Jehovah has favoured me with a son), and the name was adopted into the Latin (via Greek) as <b>JOHANNES</b>. This name has enjoyed enormous popularity in Europe, <b>being given in honor of St. John the Baptist, precursor of Christ and of St. John the Evangelist</b>, author of the fourth gospel, as well as others of the nearly one thousand saints of the name."</span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;">— </span><a href="http://nowhappened.blogspot.com/2010/06/john-adept-mythology-for-new-golden-age.html" style="text-align: justify;" target="_blank">nowhappened.blogspot.com</a></blockquote>
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"The manned U.S. spacecraft named <b>Jupiter</b> in the film are clearly <b>Gemini</b> vessels, flown between 1965 and 1966 with two astronauts to test various systems and procedures vital to the successor manned space project, Apollo, that would land the first men on the Moon in 1969."<span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;">— <a href="http://jamesbond.wikia.com/">jamesbond.wikia.com</a>, <i>You Only Live Twice.</i></span></blockquote>
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"We have shown that it does not necessarily follow that when the parenthood of the Thunder is recognised, it necessarily extends to both of the twins. <b>The Dioscuri may be called unitedly, Sons of Zeus; but a closer investigation shows conclusively that there was a tendency in the early Greek cults to regard one twin as of divine parentage, and the other of human.</b> Thus Castor is credited to Tyndareus, Pollux to Zeus. . . The extra child made the trouble, and was credited to an outside source. Only later will the difficulty of discrimination lead to the recognition of both as Sky-boys or Thunder-boys. An instance from a remote civilization will show that this is the right view to take.</blockquote>
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"The clue to its mushroom affinities has lain all along in the “translation” which, as such, is of course quite spurious. But “sons of thunder” is a well-known name for the fungus, found elsewhere in Semitic texts, and supported by the old Greek name keraunion, “<b>thunder—fungus</b>”, after keraunos, “thunder”. <b>The reference is to the belief that mushrooms were born of thunder, the voice of the god in the storm, since it was noticed that they appeared in the ground after rainstorms.</b>" — John Allegro, <i>Sacred Mushroom and the Cross</i></blockquote>
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<i><i>"a symbolic ritual object that symbolizes both the properties of a <b>diamond (indestructibility)</b> and a <b>thunderbolt (irresistible force)</b>" </i><span style="text-align: justify;">— <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajra" target="_blank">wikipedia</a></span></i></div>
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"The most famous of all the mythological twins are Castor and Pollux, the “volva” and the “stem” of the fungus respectively. Their joint name, Dioscouroi, means “phallus of the storm”, and appears in the New Testament as the name of Jesus’ betrayer, Iscariot, and as the title of Jesus himself, 'son of God.'</div>
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"The risen mushroom, with canopy outstretched was seen by the ancients in the same sexual terms as the open groin of a woman penetrated by the male organ, or as an axe-head into which the shaft has been inserted. It was represented symbolically by the form of a cross, as a man or animal carrying a yoke, or as a criminal crucified. So the fungus was known as “the little cross” and its dismemberment as “crucifixion”, giving in part that theme of the Christian myth." — John Allegro, <i>Sacred Mushroom and the Cross</i></blockquote>
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<b>"ODIN is a god of the mysterious realms of wisdom, cunning, sorcery, and death.</b> Subtle, aristocratic, and at times inexplicable, Odin is the literal father of important gods, such as Thor, and All-Father to the whole of creation, divine and human. Amongst his gifts to us, his children, was the greatest of all: the gift of writing. To accomplish this <b>Odin hung himself upside down upon the World Tree, </b>the gigantic ash Yggdrasil<b> </b>(a compound <b>meaning "terrible horse"). After nine days of fasting and agony, </b>in which "he made of himself a sacrifice to himself", he "fell screaming" from the tree,<b> having had revealed to him in a flash of insight the secret of the runes." </b>— <b><a href="http://www.octavia.net/vikings/odin.htm" target="_blank">octavia.net</a></b></blockquote>
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<b>"The generally accepted meaning of Old Norse Yggdrasill is "Odin's horse", meaning "gallows".</b> This interpretation comes about because drasill means "horse" and Ygg(r) is one of Odin's many names. The Poetic Edda poem Hávamál describes how Odin sacrificed himself by hanging from a tree, making this tree Odin's gallows. This tree may have been Yggdrasil. Gallows can be called "the horse of the hanged" and therefore <b>Odin's gallows may have developed into the expression "Odin's horse", which then became the name of the tree</b>." ― <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil" target="_blank">wikipedia</a></blockquote>
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“<b>The gallows from which he is suspended forms a Tau cross</b>…There is a nimbus about the head of the seeming martyr. It should be noted that the tree of sacrifice is living wood, with leaves thereon; that the face expresses deep entrancement, not suffering; that the figure, as a whole, suggests life in suspension, but life and not death…He who can understand that the story of his higher nature is imbedded in this symbolism will receive intimations concerning a great awakening that is possible, and will know that <b>after the sacred Mystery of Death there is a glorious Mystery of Resurrection</b>.” ― A.E. Waite, <i>The Pictorial Key to the Tarot</i></blockquote>
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"However, other characteristics of <b>the mountain</b> were considered less admirable. <b>Legend said that it gave off a golden light which made all the animals that lived on it, noble and ignoble, appear to be the same. In other words, it lacked discrimination and the ability to distinguish between</b> skilful and unskilful,<b> good and bad</b>, foolishness and wisdom." ― <a href="http://buddhisma2z.com/content.php?id=257" target="_blank">buddhisma2z.com</a></blockquote>
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<i>"Striker, we're going to the tower. Good luck."</i></div>
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<i>"They're going to the tower."</i></div>
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<i>"The tower! The tower! Rapunzel! Rapunzel!"</i></div>
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<i>"Stewardess, how soon till we land?"</i></div>
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<i>"It won't be long now. Try not to worry."</i><span style="text-align: justify;">— <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080339/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1" target="_blank">Airplane!</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">"Early printed decks that preserve all their cards do feature The Tower. In these decks the card bears a number of different names and designs. <b>In some Belgian tarots and the 17th century tarot of Jacques Viéville, the card is called La Foudre or La Fouldre, ("The Lightning") and depicts a tree being struck by lightning.</b>" — </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tower_(Tarot_card)" style="text-align: justify;">wikipedia</a></blockquote>
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<i>"And the LORD shall be seen over them, and <b>his arrow will emerge as the lightning</b>"<br />(Zechariah 9:14)</i></div>
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"<b>Lightning plays a crucial role in tales dealing with the creation of the world and its preparation for the advent of mankind</b>. In the cosmogony of the Popol Vuh, three Lightning deities identified with the 'Heart of the Sky' (among whom Huraqan 'One-Leg') create the earth out of the primordial sea, and people it with animals." ― <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_K#Narratives_and_Scenes" target="_blank">wikipedia</a> </blockquote>
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"In the Jewish religion,<b> a blessing</b> <b>'...He who does acts of creation' is to be recited, upon sighting lightning</b>. The Talmud refers to the Hebrew word for the sky, ("Shamaim") – as built from fire and water ("Esh Umaim"), since the sky is the source of the inexplicable mixture of "fire" and water that come together, during rainstorms. This is mentioned in various prayers and discussed in writings of Kabbalah." — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_in_religion" target="_blank">wikipedia</a></blockquote>
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"Lightning: Typically the symbol meanings of lightning deal with instant and divine intervention. Lightning is a major message from a higher source, a message for the observer to wake up and pay attention to his/her surroundings. Lightning was viewed as a creative spark to the Native Americans as it signified the winking Thunderbird. Linked with both fire and water, lightning is also viewed as both creator and destroyer in many cultures." ― <a href="http://groupspaces.com/AberTarotMeditation/pages/lesson-2-the-symbols-found-in-tarot">groupspaces.com</a></blockquote>
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"<i style="text-align: center;">May the LORD bless his land with the <b>precious dew from Heaven above and with the deep waters that lie below</b>. (Deuteronomy 33:13)</i> </div>
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"The Minchiate version of the deck <b>may represent Adam and Eve's expulsion from the Garden of Eden." </b>—<b> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tower_(Tarot_card)" target="_blank">wikipedia</a></b></blockquote>
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"In the Tarot of Paris (17th century), the image shown is of the Devil beating his drums, before what appears to be<b> the mouth of Hell</b>; the card still is called La Fouldre." — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tower_(Tarot_card)">wikipedia</a></blockquote>
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"In Crowley's card, the tower, attacked by lightning from above, is also assaulted from below by what he calls the mouth of Dis - a god of chaos. <b>The Hebrew letter PE has as its meaning, 'a mouth.'</b>" — <a href="http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/occultgeneticcode/tarot16.htm">bibliotecapleyades</a></blockquote>
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"The ritual that would re-animate the deceased was called The Opening of the Mouth ceremony. It was an important ritual in both funerary and in temple practice. <b>The Opening of the Mouth originated as a ritual to endow statues with the capacity to support the living ka</b>, and to receive offerings. It was performed on cult statues of gods, kings, and private individuals, as well as on the mummies of both humans and Apis bulls. It was even performed on the individual rooms of temples and on the entire temple structure. <b>The effect of the ritual was to animate the recipient</b> (or, in the case of a deceased individual, to re-animate it). The ritual allowed the mummy, statue, or temple, to eat, breathe, see, hear and enjoy the offerings and provisions performed by the priests and officiants, thus to sustain the ka." — <a href="http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/open.htm" target="_blank">touregypt.net</a></blockquote>
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"The card of the Tower in the Renaissance has been called by various names: In the Sermones de Ludo appears as "Sagitta" ("Ray"), other authors including Garzoni, the pool, the Pomeran and Theophilus Folengo call it "The Fire". But it was also called "<b>The Devil's Rejects</b>" in Ferrara and "The House of Pluto" or simply "The House" by Aretino. It was still called "The House of the damned", <b>"Hell" and "Heaven."</b> All of these terms are not mutually contradictory, but significant allegory represented, namely the destruction of a house by fire or lightning, according to the cosmological conception of time, were believed to be from the "Sphera Ignis", sphere or circle of fire that towered the earth. Below, going up to the higher heavens, we're placed on the rim of the Moon, the Stars and what followed that of the Sun, the celestial bodies that we find in the Tarot cards after the Tower." — <a href="http://www.letarot.it/page.aspx?id=128" target="_blank">letarot.it</a> (translated)</blockquote>
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"The idea that lightning may be of two types, one destructive, the other benefit, already in Pliinio, which divides the stones of lightning in black and red in his "Naturalis Historiae". <b>The black, round, were sacred and were called Bethel, and could be used to conquer peoples and enemy fleets, while red simple stones were called Lightning. In folk tradition, any stone that came from the heavens is termed a Bethel-the term comes from the Hebrew Bethel = House of God."</b> — <a href="http://www.letarot.it/page.aspx?id=128" target="_blank">letarot.it</a> (translated)</blockquote>
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<i> The House of God</i></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">"<b>The mountain is a symbol for the athanor</b>, since the perfection of the metals takes place under the guise of Nature within mountains." — Dennis William Hauck, </span><i style="text-align: justify;">Sorcerer's Stone</i> </blockquote>
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<i> An Alchemist's Athanor</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I also got to spend a whole day with most of them while attending the Bridge Benefit Concert at the Shoreline Amphitheater. The third and last day consisted of a breakfast at the Cock-A-Doodle (I had an omelette, not the sausage) and a brisk walk to the Greyhound station so that the canine psychopomp could bring me back to the underworld.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Check out the <a href="http://thesyncbook.com/alwaysrecord#Ep67" target="_blank">Always Record</a> podcast for the audio from that event which took place at The Monkey House, the house-slash-venue owned by Ira Marlowe whose music provided the answers and syncfodder. (Direct links: <a href="http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-120495/TS-801845.mp3">part one</a>, <a href="http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-120495/TS-801848.mp3">two</a>, <a href="http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-120495/TS-801851.mp3">and three</a>. Podcast links are for download, but you can right click and copy the link so you can stream it in an audio player if you so chose.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had to overcome my fear of people, places and things (basically: nouns) just to make it as far as attending, but then Andras threw me into the ring as one of the synchead interpreters of the Pop Oracle's musical answers and I had to overcome some serious anxiety. Anxiety which caused me to break down into tears once during a science class demonstration of my styrofoam and pipe-cleaner plant cell, to nearly fail English and have to repeat the year because while I had done a great book report, I didn't present it to the class, and also responsible for a myriad of other embarrassing events and missed opportunities in my life (blonde chick who was in my Sociology class, I wanted to be with you, but I couldn't show it!).<br /><br />Thankfully the audience was small, enthusiastic, and didn't know that I was terrified that I would throw up all over my custom Stygian Port shoes. (I have Etnies skate shoes with "Stygian" stitched on them. Nerd alert!) My brain tends to scramble when I'm put on the spot </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">— </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I sometimes say that if you just stopped me on the street and asked me my middle name, I wouldn't know it </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">— </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">so my syncromystic interpretations suffered from my inability to be mentally spontaneous and to pin down the overwhelming clutter of movie references and get to the damn point. I won't make up for that and reinterpret anything, because I'm lazy, and you know that. One thing I do regret not mentioning though, is that Truman's <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEickLysjzDycPHyL_oc4ArOA-8IRuGl9Es3b9seEq7Rd0juAXrRlhCQxVmiIQQm9uMitrWzSYG35jcPq2DQ8WMohqwgscTogVME_jp9-eSk24C8C44HFMZZFxcAt_wS2G1sG9_XDuWkExY/" target="_blank">favorite show</a>, inside the Truman Show, is called "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9bde0nYF5Q" target="_blank">Show Me The Way To Go Home</a>."<br /><br />The cute bubbly blonde (not the one from my Soc. class, but I'm easy), nicknamed 'Special K', whose song-answer I had to interpret, was the polar opposite of me and really enjoyed talking. I think that helped me just sit there and look dark and mysterious, as her stage presence thankfully took some of the burden off my chest and kept the vomit off my shoes. All in all it went really well and I'm already hoping we can all get together again sometime soon, and with even more fellow-travelers! I mean <strike>synctravelers</strike>! Ok, it doesn't always work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I don't really pay attention to real-world syncs since I'm so rarely in the real world, so when I was on Radio-8 Ball via Skype after returning to the comfort of my hell, and Andras and Alan asked me about the day of the concert, I started rambling about divination instead of regaling you with tales of wild synchunting. I may have also told everyone to experiment with Ouija boards. Hopefully Captain Howdy doesn't make you all vomit pea-soup if you do, but hey, that would kinda prove my point wouldn't it? There's something to it, magick with a k, and it's out there waiting for you to test it out for yourself. You can download that podcast by <a href="http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-127978/TS-807321.mp3" target="_blank">clicking here</a>. The Sync Book website has also laid out the timeline of events on <a href="http://thesyncbook.com/2013summitexperience" target="_blank">this page here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />There's no need to remove some of the yolk or stir it with your finger or pose the egg any questions. I don't ask the egg anything (and the egg demands nothing), because like the other form of divination I mention in the podcast, it will simply work without any pomp or circumstance. Specifically, this method of egg divination will show you at least one major event in your life in the coming year. There are some signs and symbols to look for, but for the most part it should form a shape you can interpret for yourself. If it forms no shape at all, you better have your Last Will and Testament in good order. Egg results like that are why I'm the last person in my family with the <i>huevos</i> to still do this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To me this was clearly a woman in a wedding veil with what are probably two children behind her. For a microsecond I thought I might have a shotgun wedding, but let's face it, I'll probably only ever have a wedding if I take a bride hostage with a shotgun. The first wedding that coming year was for a male cousin, but the second wedding would be for a female cousin who also had two kids from a previous marriage. This wedding was a massive family get-together, super fun, and definitely the highlight of the year. There's no doubt, in my mind at least, that the egg was showing me this event as being the most significant one of my life that year. Apparently other people's significant events are about as exciting as it gets for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Egg results in my mom's family have included blood, which indicates a severe disease, an egg that just laid flat in an apparently 'coffin' shape (and you can guess what that means), a wedding veil, an old fashioned baby carriage, lots of bridges, sometimes some big air bubbles which mean lots of money (you'll note that my eggs are lacking in significant bubblage). The bit of shell that made it into the glass is apparently meaningless, and so far I agree with that assessment, especially where the symbolism is concerned (it's what's inside that matters, or so they keep telling me). And that's all I can remember. As you can see, the results aren't as esoteric as tarot cards or the I Ching. I believe that simple divination with clearly defined parameters can be used reliably by anyone. Ultimately, it <i>is</i> subjective, and you can't escape that fact of quantum mechanics that observation is participation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The next egg is for the current year, 2013. I had no idea what would/is coming this year, so I had nothing to go on. It didn't seem to indicate that I would move away, and I haven't yet, or at least if I do it won't be the main thing the egg wants to convey. And it certainly didn't show me money (lots of air bubbles, or a few big air bubbles), so I was kinda stumped when I first saw it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is split into two sides, and I don't know if it was influenced by my placement of the two 99cent Store Mexican prayer candles, but probably not. (The <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitkbZJxtOto7rg5Nmo_6lEfmzFlcldNzKqgWgPtVm1G4feJYWES0fUw3hQQTv2HzUr_FahYLQxFQPlwFe6oVuuebcP7VvlBjZRbLyZpk2cykeuKkHRCli-yKC8uFDo39OzegvLSYFB3xc/" target="_blank">one on the right</a> is seen in the movie <i>The Holy Mountain</i>)<br /><br />Hey! I just noticed a funny syncrnocity with how I have arranged some stuff on top of my desk when compared to the above picture of my egg display. Try and pretend that you're waiting on me to snap a picture with my cellphone and upload it here, because that's what I'm about to do...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The splitting into two could potentially be showing me two separate events since the previous egg had both the arch and the veiled bride, and another year's egg had two arches. I don't want to speculate <i>too</i> much on the side with the large egg-bubble, at least until the year is completely over. And truth be told, unless maybe some of the remaining older relatives in my mom's side know what to make of it, we have no idea what a large bubble of egg-white means, if anything. It's not a money bubble (trust me), and my thoughts were leaning more towards it representing a gestation of something important to come later, possibly in the next year. The shape on that side is rather mountainous, and could mean that I end up back in Colorado before the next New Years Eve, but again, don't want to speculate too much on it right now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's not a perfect facsimile, but then again, it </span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">is</i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> an egg in a glass of water. Two spires, hell it's even white. The opposite side of the egg which I said looks mountainous could conceivably be the grassy knoll we syncheads gathered on that day. The bubble could then have something to do with the friendships formed there. Call me crazy, but I think that this event, certainly one of the most significant of my life, let alone this year, was divined by my trusty Grade AAA cage-free egg.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now while I was writing this out, and also avoiding writing this out by constantly checking Facebook, I happened across <a href="https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/d5d3dc850933" target="_blank">a science article</a> about the idea that "Time is an emergent phenomenon that is a side effect of quantum entanglement.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Basically, what had happened was that any attempt to combine General Relativity with Quantum Mechanics would result in incomprehensible equations filled with infinities, and the Wheeler-DeWitt solution, which removed the infinities, introduced the idea that time doesn't exist in the universe. In fact, from the outside, it would appear as if nothing at all were happening within the universe (kinda like that World Egg, no?), "a prediction that is clearly at odds with the observational evidence."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In this case, the observer cannot detect any difference between the photons without becoming entangled with one or the other. And if there is no difference, the system appears static. In other words, time does not emerge.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I feel like this speaks to the egg symbolism I quoted previously. Just let it roll around in your </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY3akimOMQkYgirnw4K0JAVAS-XCmbJMZ03s60B5JqGSyC4ATtPt5eGEhKC8oRISzyeKv-zKdtNAstcxIRh8udaqOG4yc0iIRzg9-9UOeQ5Yr6wEte-oo8KUzgf5XJZp65l0_bS8y9iTc/+head.jpg" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">egghead</a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> for a bit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">[The] results depend on how the observation is made. One way to do this is to compare the change in the entangled particles with an external clock that is entirely independent of the universe. This is equivalent to a god-like observer outside the universe measuring the evolution of the particles using an external clock.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In this case, [...] the particles would appear entirely unchanging — time would not exist in this scenario.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But there is another way to do it that gives a different result. This is for an observer inside the universe to compare the evolution of the particles with the rest of the universe. In this case, the internal observer would see a change, and this difference in the evolution of entangled particles compared with everything else is an important a measure of time.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is an elegant and powerful idea. It suggests that time is an emergent phenomenon that comes about because of the nature of entanglement. And it exists only for observers inside the universe. Any god-like observer outside sees a static, unchanging universe.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is an elegant and powerful idea, but I'm leaning toward a more occult understanding of the universal microcosm of your own mind, and how perturbations of conscious, and contact with the Other, can elicit states of timelessness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One symbol which Alan Green brought up in relation to the synchunting at the concert was that the Bridge Benefit logo looked like a planchette, used in divination as with the Ouija board, and it looked like a winged sun disc. But that's not the only thing with wings from the time of two-dimensional people, there are also depictions of floating eggs and eggs with wings. Here's a more modern example:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Egg was the symbol of life in <em>immortality</em> and eternity; as also the glyph of the generative matrix; and the <em>tau</em>, associated with it, only of life and birth in <em>generation.</em> The Mundane Egg was placed in <em>Khnoom</em>, the “Water of Space,” or the feminine <em>abstract</em> principle; and when <em>Phtah</em>, the “fiery god,” carries the Mundane egg in his hand, then the symbolism becomes quite terrestrial and concrete in its significance. In conjunction with the hawk, the symbol of Osiris-Sun, the symbol is dual: it relates to both lives — the mortal and the immortal. In Kircher’s <em>OEdipus Egyptiacus</em> one can see, on the papyrus engraved in it, an egg floating above the mummy. This is the symbol of hope and the promise of a <em>second birth</em> for the <em>Osirified</em> dead; his Soul, after due purification in the Amenti, will gestate in this egg of immortality, to be reborn from it into a new life on earth. For this Egg, in the esoteric Doctrine, is the <em>Devachan</em>, the abode of Bliss; the winged scarabeus being alike a symbol of it.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></blockquote>
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I filled in for Will and Doug at the 42 Minutes podcast in a one-man show where I "do it myself" for about 40 minutes. <a href="https://archive.org/download/JeremyKnightHallOfTwoTruths/JeremyKnight_HallOfTwoTruths.mp3">Click here</a> to download or listen. You're welcome. xDAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01612156064544756274noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230063815373634353.post-42293524009498160992013-06-15T16:45:00.000-07:002014-03-20T13:21:02.453-07:00The Stygian Port - Video Collection TorrentThat's right, I finally made a torrent of my videos. Right now I'm the only seeder, and the whole thing is 6.5GB, so it's going to take a while to download until more people are seeding the whole thing. If you don't have a torrent client, get one (<a href="http://www.utorrent.com/">http://www.utorrent.com/</a>) and then come back here and download my torrent:<br />
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It includes the DVD version of Here Is Wisdom, so you can watch it uncut and/or burn it to a DVD, and it includes the three videos I made for the "make fun of synchromysticism" blog The Stynk Hole. There are a few things which are not included, but as I intend to make more videos in the near future, there will probably be another torrent or two in the years to come.<br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">Update:</span></b> I forgot to say, once you download the torrent, keep it in there and keep the torrent client connected to the net and SEED SEED SEED. Thanks ;D<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">Update 2:</span></b> Sorry guys & gals (gals, please call me), I was out of town for a week and then moved so I have been lacking in seeding, and my IP address has changed, but everything should be back up and running and I'm going to seed from my laptop too, to get my massive torrent down your pipline faster and faster and... *whew* I'm off to bed.</div>
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<b><span style="color: #999999; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">It is the symbol for the most <i>elementary</i> element, </span><a href="http://chemistry.about.com/od/alchemy/ig/Dalton-s-Alchemy-Symbols/Dalton-s-Symbol-for-Hydrogen.htm" style="color: #999999; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Hydrogen</a><span style="color: #999999; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">, and in alchemy, for gold which is the metal associated with the sun whose symbol in astrology is the same, stemming from the ancient image of the sun as a wheel, circle or spiral with a central point or hub. Hydrogen is the most basic element, and the alchemists held gold symbolically up as the ultimate achievement of evolution of all particles of matter. U</span></b><b><span style="color: #999999; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">sing the same symbol for both hints at the process </span></b><b><span style="color: #999999; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">from beginning to end, alpha to omega: hydrogen to gold. The alchemists say that it takes a seed of gold to make gold, and I say that it takes a seed of God to make God. The dot in the center is that seed, it is you in the center of your own universe. You can reach out into infinity in all directions and therefore circumscribe the limits of your own personal universe and reality within a circle, or really, a sphere.</span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">Author Mike Clelland, on his blog </span><a href="http://hiddenexperience.blogspot.com/" style="line-height: 21px;">hidden experience</a>, investigates the synchro-oddities of what he dubs "The Evolutionary Triad": a three-stage evolutionary process which is depicted specifically in two films which opened very close to each-other, <i>Planet of the Apes</i> and <i>2001: A Space Odyssey.</i></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;">His take on these two movies is that <i>Planet</i> is an inversion of <i>2001</i>: one begins with a stargate and one ends with a stargate. In one, man has devolved into pre-intelligence while his experiment, the ape, has evolved to fill man's shoes. In the other film, man clearly comes from apes made intelligent by outside agencies, and continued meddling with man's DNA leads to near godhood at the end of the film.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; line-height: 21px;">There is no shortage of theories on the genetic manipulation of human beings, and maybe it's a little bit of egomania to think we couldn't have possibly come from these dirty stupid animals, like the unintelligent-humans in <i>Planet of the Apes</i>. Then again, there are plenty of questions about our evolution, including the sudden rise in brain size during a relatively slow evolution. The heads of modern white males are also increasing in size. Perhaps other heads are growing too but the research hasn't been done. I can tell you my nephew with Aspergers syndrome has a massive dome-piece, and I heard the screams from my poor sister when she had to push it out! The reason for our intelligence is our long gestation and infantile growth period. Other animals pop out of their moms ready to traverse the Savannah, but a baby human is completely helpless. We are essentially premature births, and because of that, our heads can grow larger once outside of the womb, and we can spend more time learning with less reliance on strong animal instincts, ie: no longer relying on the reptilian brain.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 21px;">Extrapolating</span><span style="line-height: 21px;"> from that idea, we can assume that a premature human (who started as a premature ape), could evolve into something with an even more massive cranium, such as the stereotypical "grey" alien. In fact, it is thought by those who study the alien phenomenon that these aliens are inserting their babies, for a time, into human hosts and retrieving them before the pregnancy becomes too obvious, where they continue to gestate in an artificial environment that allows such expansive growth with would naturally be restricted by the vaginal opening and the space available in the human womb.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 21px;">The aliens most common to earth, human interaction, conspiracy theory, and UFO pop culture are the: greys (tall and short), and the reptilians (both native to earth and alien in origin). Also, there are plenty of humanoids, potential hybrids, and potential genetic sources for humans if not the greys themselves.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 21px;">Mythology is filled with serpents, and even a few instances of large-headed and large-eyed beings, though they are far less prominent than the reptile archetype.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 21px;">Just like alien visitors and channeled messages, I can't give any answers and those ideas I do present are probably as real as the movies I'm referencing, which is to say, <i>real in a sense</i>. I mean, the movies, or the information, does in fact exist and it does change people's lives. The conclusions are up to you, but I recommend not taking the information to one extreme or another, and keep in mind that they always, always, mix truth with lies.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 21px;">When looking for an explanation, we might turn to channeled alien beings, such as in the below video. A man under hypnosis recalls childhood trauma at the hands of the greys--his dead mom in attendance--and then later at 16 years old is afraid of the second species to contact him, and in adulthood has grown to like the second species of alien which he channels in the greater part of the video, and who refers to himself as an Elohim; one of the species who made Man in their image, as the polytheistic version of the story of Genesis tells us. (We are given two versions of our Genesis in the bible: In one "God" makes us in his image, and in another "the Gods" make us in their image.) I recommend skipping past the first 20-30 minutes if you decide to watch this, his Kiwi accent, loud screaming and overall poor quality make him impossible to understand. Once you get into the channeled information, the story is pretty typical. </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 21px;">An interesting point in the video is when the hypnotist asked why the man was frightened by the 'good' aliens when he was a teenager. The response went something like "If I gave you a full-grown dragon, you would be afraid of it, right? But if I gave you a baby dragon which you raised to adulthood, you wouldn't fear it." I wonder why this Alien-Angel compares seeing him to seeing a dragon? It reminds me of Arthur C. Clarke's book <i>Childhood's End</i> where the aliens look like our depiction of the devil, and therefore they have to be careful about how they approach man without scaring him off. You're familiar with the devil, I'm sure, the guy usually depicted as a serpent or dragon.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">I happened across a link today to a <a href="http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread938016/pg1">thread</a> on anti-open-discussion website Above Top Secret. (Ok, that's not fair. I guess there are a handful of people there who don't spend all day derailing and trolling threads.) In it, the thread author presents his view of the alien phenomenon, apparently originating from a dream-dialogue he had experienced spanning three episodes over four weeks, or it is possibly a hoax, or possibly both. The story begins with the Big Bang where multiple parallel universes were created, potentially infinite, but only so many "earths" harbor life, or intelligent life for that matter. Continuing with that in mind,</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=230063815373634353" name="pid16186030"></a></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From what I have been made to understand, on one of these worlds, during what we call the Silurian Period, life left the sea and had the beginnings of intelligent thought. The fossil records of that world show how these creatures made nests on the beaches by manipulating their environment. They also made what look like catch pools to harvest other sea creatures. They were the top species. Eventually they grew and changed. They evolved. Today, they are known as the Greys.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;">It took them longer to learn the sciences, well, longer than our own species. They did get there eventually. And one of their greatest scientific achievements was access to other dimensions, other “Earths”. Here they found that life was special as more often than not, the other dimensional “Earths” were completely devoid of life. That spark, that chemical reaction that started it all just didn’t happen on some worlds.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;">Another thing they found was that intelligent life is rarer still. It was about 50 million years ago that they found another species showing intelligence (sorry humans, not you). On another Earth, there was no mass extinction of the dinosaurs. One species showed rudimentary intelligence. The Greys started working with this species.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;">It wasn’t long before this reptilian species came into their own. They were groomed and guided by the greys. They soon learned most of the grey’s knowledge and science. They were close to becoming their equals.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;">However, the reptilians were becoming more and more disenchanted with what the greys had done. They felt that they were not given the opportunity to evolve and learn on their own as a species. They say that the greys forever changed who they were as a species. Their freedom of choice was stripped from them early in their development.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;">This did not preclude them from continuing to learn the sciences brought to them by the greys. It wasn’t long before they too were able to cross dimensions. And it wasn’t long before they too found a species showing intelligence. They were on an Earth where reptilians were wiped out millennia ago. This did not help their attitude.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;">The reptilians saw this new species as one they could shape into their own universal views. They proclaimed themselves as gods and used this new populace as slave labor. They felt the labor performed by this species was adequate payment for the sciences they were taught (agriculture, writing, math etc…). The experiments conducted on this species were to further scientific advancement, or at least that is what the reptilians told themselves.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;">It took the greys a few centuries more to finally arrive in this dimension. They were not pleased. From the greys point of view, the reptilians were doing to the humans what the greys had done to the reptilians. That is the reptilians were abnormally shaping the humans. They were not giving them the opportunity to become their own species. The reptilian view was that humans would have never amounted to anything had they not helped.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;">This is where the first battles occurred between the grays and reptilians. Eventually the greys won and the reptilians left our world. The greys also took some of the sciences taught to our ancestors by removing books and individuals who had this knowledge.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;">One other thing that was decided is that while we were to be left alone, we were also to become a grand experiment. How does a species left to its own devices develop culture and civilizations. How do they manage as a whole as well as individuals?</span></b></span></blockquote>
<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Those of you familiar with alien-lore have probably heard the idea that the reptilian aliens are not genuine aliens, as they are actually another intelligent species evolving in parallel with humans, though in this story, they are evolving on a parallel earth and cross-over from time to time. An <a href="http://phys.org/news/2012-04-advanced-dinosaurs-planets.html#nRlv">article</a> from last year has just popped up in my facebook feed today which spoke of the idea that intelligent reptoids may rule other planets ("other planets" why not this one, at least in a parallel world? Maybe parallel Obama sometimes overlaps real Obama giving us the "shapeshifting" image? Kidding!). </b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;">There are interesting mythological parallels to the idea of man coming out of another animal, such as the </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzsMRPGXUG57fp6irPLuVPRK1wRhw1Yl0qWu5sxUcRBmmjcH0YG9egjxjxk7T6FAsn31s-va4kGEL3Si4PoJ-eDTbmDX8sCgTCsM3ckWo2Piu3ojZk7ZeD8f4iWwGsj-TY-afLxd5eyIw/">Jonah and the Whale</a><span style="background-color: black;"> story, the heraldic </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscione">Biscione</a><span style="background-color: black;"> symbol, or the tales of Jason and the Argonauts where Jason is consumed and regurgitated by a giant serpent.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="line-height: 21px;">Jason is attended by Athena, a goddess who, like other female gods, is often depicted with an owl. The owl symbol, mentioned by Clelland and others, appears in UFOlogy as an eerie connection to the large-headed and large-eyed grey aliens. This idea shows up in the alien-themed horror film, </span><i style="line-height: 21px;">The Fourth Kind</i><span style="line-height: 21px;">, where the owl represents a kind of "screen memory" blocking out exactly what it was that was seen. My cousin has seen a very large white owl stalking his neighborhood, and even attacking his sister, and there are other stories of owls behaving </span><span style="line-height: 20.981481552124023px;">strangely</span><span style="line-height: 21px;"> or appearing in place of aliens in the recollections of abduction events. One could easily get carried off into conspiracy-culture with mention of owl symbolism, so I'll leave it here and let those so inclined spend the next year or so of their lives looking at pictures of the Bohemian Grove.</span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 21px;">While the grey alien might look like an owl, it feels like a fish, or at least according to accounts of abductees: the grey aliens are squishy and extremely weak. They are also thought to be essentially biological robots, though this might be a misunderstanding of their emotionless presence; either way they seem to be even less capable of living on land as humans. The aquatic-ape theory holds that humans evolved from a semi-aquatic ape, which would explain our noses, skin, subcutaneous fat, controlled breathing leading to speech, and other factors which are hard to explain from a </span><span style="line-height: 20.981481552124023px;">strictly</span><span style="line-height: 21px;"> monkey-based evolutionary process. Maybe or maybe not, but perhaps on a parallel earth an intelligent species evolved directly from an aquatic or semi-aquatic animal. Dolphins, mammals like us, seem to be very close to humans in emotions and intelligence.</span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 21px;">I want to again quote the ayahuasca vision from the book </span><i style="line-height: 21px;">Holographic Universe.</i><span style="line-height: 21px;"> I originally presented the below quote in my article </span><a href="http://thestygianport.blogspot.com/2009/09/land-of-dead.html" style="line-height: 21px;">Land of the Dead</a><span style="line-height: 21px;">, which has served as inspiration for much of my later 'work.'</span>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="line-height: 20.981481552124023px;">Apropos</span><span style="line-height: 21px;"> of pretty much nothing: in my Land of the Dead article, as well as in </span><a href="http://thestygianport.blogspot.com/2009/03/journey-back-home.html" style="line-height: 21px;">The Journey Back Home</a><span style="line-height: 21px;">, I bring up Crab symbolism, and then I read today that the Cancer constellation is represented by the Ouroboros, the serpent or dragon who eats it's own tail.</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 21px;">On a personal note: I do a little pendulum divination thing to determine the number and sex of the children a person will have (1 girl and 1 boy for me, I think). I combined this with automatic drawing so instead of using a pendulum, I used a pencil on paper. Well, after the "girl" and "boy" images were complete, the pendulum/pencil made the "null" pattern meaning "no more kids" (it doesn't move when prompted) but on the paper it wasn't just sitting still like the pendulum should, it actually drew what I can only describe as an infinity symbol and an Ouroboros.</span></b></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01612156064544756274noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230063815373634353.post-9235828378775066762013-03-01T21:41:00.000-08:002013-03-01T22:02:20.733-08:00222So.. I was reading an article about the number 666 recently, your typical information we all know, and I started thinking about the diagonal lines on the Magic Square of the Sun which add to 111 but which don't make 666 because there's only two of them, and so you have 6 rows equaling 111 and totaling 666, and 6 columns of 111 for another 666, but two diagonals of 111 for 222 total. Child actors Corey Feldman and Cory Haim had a longtime rivalry between who's favorite number was the perfect number, Feldman's 22 or Haim's 222: <a href="http://www.hollywoodgrind.com/corey-feldman-talks-about-the-power-of-222/">"Nobody will understand the magic of 22/222."</a>
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Some of you might take note of Cory Feldman's hot air ballon with a small "O" circling the 222, and a large Z from the TMZ watermark coming together in a very nice 'Oz' moment. (Also, written on the basket is his sons name, Zen.)<blockquote>Nobody will ever understand the brotherhood we shared. Nobody will ever get the inside jokes we told. Nobody will understand the magic of 22/222</blockquote>So besides that.. Two or Deuce is a name for the Devil: "what the deuce?" becomes "what the devil?" Lucifer, the 2nd thing in the universe next to god is Number Two who runs the matrix video game we are in.
Aaanyways, I figured that to take the 666,666,222 and make it a triplicate of triple-sixes, the crossed diagonals which equal 222 when combined need be counted 3 times: a triple count of the triple X in the box, making it equal 666 total for the diagonals. Hmm, <b>B-O-X</b> = 2-15-24 = <b>2-6-6</b>. Triple that BOX and you have the magic square/x-box of the sun: 222 diagonals, 666 rows, and 666 columns!
I went and threw together a picture to try to flesh out this random thought, and I noticed that the corner numbers, when tripled or written in triplicate, could be significant too. There's the 1 which can be 111 or 3, and the 6 for 666 or 18, the already significant 36 becoming the important number of Hinduism: 108. In LOST, the hatch countdown clock ran for 108 minutes and when it reached zero it spelled out UNDERWORLD in Egyptian hieroglyphs. <a href="http://synchromystic.wikia.com/wiki/108">108</a> is half <a href="http://synchromystic.wikia.com/wiki/216">216</a>. And the last corner number is the seemingly innocuous 31 which becomes a Thelemic 93 when tripled. Thelemites use 93 as shorthand for Aleister Crowley's law of Thelema: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law" and "Love is the law, love under will."
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Oh yeah, so I leech free wifi from the neighbors, and I just found out that my current IP address has a 108 and a 93 in it!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01612156064544756274noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230063815373634353.post-637860737798746532013-02-10T19:38:00.001-08:002013-02-13T16:31:19.400-08:00Ojo de Dios
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,<br>
How I wonder what you are.<br>
Up above the world so high,<br>
Like a diamond in the sky.<p>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01612156064544756274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230063815373634353.post-2059442701529978882012-09-29T14:16:00.001-07:002016-06-28T20:17:36.339-07:00Always Record - The Podcast Sessions<br />
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<b>Always Record, Episode 17</b> - I was just randomly pulled into this group
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<b>Always Record, Episode 18</b> - Actually, this is the only one where the accompanying image says "Volume" instead of "Episode." Hmm, maybe it's a subtle hint to turn down your volume so that my voice doesn't annoy you as much as it does me. I did this episode/volume with Frank Zero (as Apocalypse) and Trever Tocco (as an anthropomorphic taco). Together we are known as... *queue dramatic music* ...<a href="http://trentcastle.wix.com/psycube#!home/mainPage">Project Psycube</a>! Dun, dun, DUNNNN!!!<br />
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<b>Always Record, Episode 20</b> - Frank Zero and I were brought back in for another rousing round of tangentical conversations that can only end in a Kenau Reeves<i>esque</i> "Whoa!" So, pull up a chair, my Moonchildren, and give it a listen.<br />
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<a href="https://archive.org/download/ThatsNoMoonChildFrankZeroJeremyKnight1of2/ThatsNoMoonChild_FrankZero-JeremyKnight_1of2.mp3">Part 1</a>, and <a href="https://archive.org/download/ThatsNoMoonChildFrankZeroJeremyKnight1of2/ThatsNoMoonChild_FrankZero-JeremyKnight_2of2.mp3">Part 2</a><br />
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<b>Frank Zero interview on 42 Minutes</b> - discussing everything under the moon, including UFOlogy, supersoldiers, and hidden symbols and unusual themes in movies and cartoons.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01612156064544756274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230063815373634353.post-65296687499119004502012-05-21T18:47:00.000-07:002016-06-27T22:42:00.506-07:00Star Theory Radio - interview<div align="center">
<i>"Maybe this world is another planet's hell."</i>
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I was invited to Kyle's new show on OracleBroadcasting.com (Star Theory Radio), so below is the links to listen to me ramble. And ramble I did. At this point I have too many divergent ideas bouncing around my brain that it's hard to stick to and finish one train of thought before jumping on another! Anyways, it was fun to get back on the air and in the chatroom (for this show, it's at <a href="http://startheoryradio.chatango.com/">startheoryradio.chatango.com</a>).
Here is the <a href="http://mp3.oraclebroadcasting.com/Star_Theory/Star_Theory.2012-05-19_16k.mp3">download link</a>.<br />
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Previously I had done the short Psycube interview and one of the questions made me realize that my favorite movies from my childhood all had similar themes. I ended up changing my answer to the question, but here's a slightly expanded version of what I was originally going to say:
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<i>They Live</i> - I've loved this movie since I first saw it long ago. It's basically about the revelation that the world is run by a secret cabal of alien masters and their human familiars. The aliens operate from underground bases and are called ghouls. And like ghouls, they look more like decaying people rather than any idea of aliens I've ever heard of. In my answer to another question in the interview I compare the ghouls to the Strangers from <i>Dark City</i> who are parasites that use the deceased bodies of humans as temporary shells while they conduct their experiments.</blockquote>
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<i>Invaders From Mars</i> (the 1980's remake) - The original black and white version is cool too, if you're into old B-movies, but the 1980's remake was a thing to be remembered. An apparent meteor crashes down near the house of a little boy who eventually discovers that it's really a spacecraft whose inhabitants are somehow taking over his small town. So, here's a spaceship and alien force operating from underground and, like in <i>They Live</i> and <i>Dark City,</i> they are taking over the world.</blockquote>
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<i>The Gate</i> - One of my favorites from childhood which I used to get confused with <i>Poltergeist</i>, probably because they use the tag-line "<i>They're here</i>... and they want to meet the neighbors." I think I only saw this movie once before I recently found it again, but it stuck with me even though I couldn't really remember it. It turns out that the "they" in this one is not the spirits of the dead bodies under the house like in <i>Poltergeist</i>, but rather a demon realm accidentally accessed by a series of actions that happened to coincide with the rituals needed to open, "The Gate." Basically, this gate is a hole in the backyard leading underground to where these demons live. When the gate is partially opened, the demons can't come through but can <i>influence</i> the world.</blockquote>
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<i>Big Trouble In Little China</i> - Next to <i>They Live</i>, this is my favorite childhood movie. It helps that some of it's characters seemed to match those from the arcade game Mortal Kombat. In this film, Lo Pan, an emperor from China's past, is attempting to appease the demon who cursed him. The building he and his minions utilize has untold number of floors underground, and several are meant to represent specific hells of Chinese folklore (like, "the hell of the upside-down sinners"). The path the good-guys take to sneak into Lo Pan's hideout goes underground into a world that was the surface of the earth at a time before it was turned upside-down during a war involving demons who lived on the surface of the earth.</blockquote>
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And you wonder why I'm so drawn to all things having to do with the dead and the underworld? :DAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01612156064544756274noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230063815373634353.post-6348740186177416422012-04-29T15:10:00.000-07:002014-03-21T23:11:56.838-07:00Project Psycube Interview<div align="center">
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Check out a recent <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/project-psycube-interview-trevor-tocco-and-violator-hellspawn-2">interview at examiner.com</a>
The triumvirate that is Project Psycube came together at the examiner for a joint interview, or rather, one leg of the tripod, Frank Zero, interviewed the other two legs, myself and Trevor Tocco. Check us out on facebook at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/187112194654068/">The Secret Moon</a>, or Frank's <a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/211789218917382/">Master Group Index</a>, because he really likes facebook groups :DAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01612156064544756274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230063815373634353.post-79485836395417443032011-11-29T23:44:00.000-08:002011-12-11T20:28:48.776-08:00The Man Who Wasn't There<blockquote>Last night upon the stair,<br />I met a man who wasn't there.<br />He wasn't there again today.<br />I wish, I wish he'd go away.</blockquote>One day, many moons ago, I woke up in the guest bedroom of my friends house to a fairly quiet morning. I had probably been drinking the previous night, but that's what teenagers in small towns do. Well, that and one <i>other</I> thing, but my girlfriend had a curfew. After a time I heard my friend enter the bathroom at the end of the hall just to the right of his bedroom door, which was just to the right of the guest bedroom. I stepped out into the hallway while my eyes glanced curiously to my left where the stairs began and descended to the right. At my immidiate left, against the wall, was a bookcase at about mid-torso height. Past that was an empty hallway corner at the top of the stair.<br /><br />Running, definitely running up the stairs was a very small man. I knew right away that he wasn't "really" there because his footfalls made no noise. He was, perhaps, three and a half feet tall and wearing a cowboy hat. He was also completely monochrome, as if he had been dipped in bronze. When he made it to the top of the stair, he brought both feet together and hopped into the empty corner of that end of the hallway, ducking down as if he were trying to hide behind the short bookcase against the wall.<br /><br />Pausing for an appropriate "what the fuck," I then arched my neck and peered around the bookcase to see if the mysterious homunculus was indeed playing an impromptu game of hide-and-seek. He was not. About this time my friend exited the bathroom where I proceeded to make myself sound like a crazy person, haranguing him with tales of a bronzed midget cowboy. <br /><br />(Sent from my iPad, while I am in bed.)<br /><br />I was on Will Morgan's (<a href="http://afewshotstoshaman.blogspot.com/">A Few Shots to Shaman</a>) podcast <a href="http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=113894&cmd=tc">42 minutes</a> recently (EPISODE7), so.. umm.. here it is: <a href="http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-113894/TS-562194.mp3">Download</a> (click to play, or right click save-as to download).<br /><b>BONUS!</b> Extra audio, Skype session: <a href="http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-113894/TS-566783.mp3">Link</a> (click to hear, right click save as to download) <b>Fast forward past to the 5 minute mark when you hear music, because the beginning is part of a Jake Kotze interview.. and you're here to hear me, right?! RIGHT?!...</b><br /><br />Aaanyways, this blog post begins with a poem I first heard in <i>The Sixth Sense</i> and appears later in <i>The Haunting in Connecticut</i>. Both of these movies feature the dead existing along side the living, which is a theme discussed in my <a href="http://thestygianport.blogspot.com/2009/09/land-of-dead.html">Land of the Dead</a> article, which was the basis of this recent podcast.<br /><br />The story which follows the poem is a true account of something that happened to me oh, about 11 years ago. It's one of several "hallucinations" I've had, most of which probably happened when I had been drinking or sometime shortly after. Alcohol is known to make people hallucinate, so I'm not going to say that these occurrences are proof of anything like faeries or what-have-you. Perhaps the altered state of consciousness created by alcohol lowers certain filters and allows a little more reality to enter the field of view. To borrow a term from <a href="http://wellofhighstrangeness.blogspot.com/">LUMINOSITY</a>, these experiences may represent a <i>bleed-through</i> from one "world" to another. For example, one day, perhaps 6 or 7 years ago, I was waking up from a dream and was in a partial wake-sleep state. With my eyes still closed, and on the edge of wakefulness, I saw a very large red balloon in front of me; slightly up and to the left. As I opened my eyes the red balloon continued to be visible, even though I was now fully awake and outside of the dream realm. I blinked and rubbed my eyes but it stayed consistent for maybe 5 seconds before dissolving away.<br /><br />Two of my most recent "hallucinations" gave me the sense that what I was seeing was not imaginary or caused by mis-fired neurons in my brain, but were actual glimpses of a closely parallel world to ours. These happened between 5 or 6 years ago, and are the last ones I can clearly remember having.<br /><br />Before moving to Texas for a for years, I was staying with my cousin in Southern California and admittedly was drinking a lot those days. This article is making me sound like a lush, by trust me, these were rare occasions. My yearly drinking usually consists of buying a sixer of Guinness on St. Paddy's Day and not even finishing that. My cousin was big time pot-head those days, but I'm pretty sure I wasn't smoking because I thought I would be having job interviews right after I moved and I didn't want to worry about passing the drug tests. Oh, wait a minute, that was true at the start, and then I decided "fuck it" and smoked anyways.. Hmm, not sure when the "hallucination" happened - before or after my "fuck it" moment? Well, that incriminating evidence aside, we were sitting on some bleachers between a school and a baseball diamond waiting for someone to meet up. We weren't actually that close to the baseball diamond, it was to our right up a sidewalk about 30 feet away. It was at night and a little league game was just finishing up. All the kids, still in their cleats and holding their bat-bags, were walking with their parents along the sidewalk which would bring them past us. My cousin was playing his guitar and I was watching the group walk towards us. Weaving through the crowd was a kid, dressed like the rest in a blue and white uniform, running soundlessly along the sidewalk. I knew, as usual, that he wasn't actually there because of the lack of noise that should have been produced from his cleats against the cement, and that his footsteps would have been at a different cadence than the rest of the kids. He seemed to cut through the crowd seamlessly, without bumping into, or "phasing" through anyone, and then he cut a sharp 90-degree angle to his right and ran off into the grass and the more shadowed side of the backstop; continuing to not produce any sound. After about 10 feet he dissolved away. This was the most realistic figure I've seen that, again, "wasn't there."<br /><br />The last of my "hallucinations" which I will leave you with happened perhaps a year or two after the above story. I was laying on my futon at one end of the room watching a movie on my TV in the dark. The only light was coming from the TV and it came up at an angle where it hit the ceiling and spread over my side of the room, opposite the TV. I'm not sure if I had been drinking anytime around this event, so I don't think that can be explained as the cause. As I was lying there watching my movie, I happened to look up at the ceiling to see a very large, perhaps volleyball sized spider (the kind with a huge ass and not much else) which was a translucent yellowish skin color, covered in purple polka-dots. Hopefully not representative of any actual spider, because thinking this thing was real would have made me wet my bed. It walked in a very hobbling way, almost bouncing along the ceiling going from the light of the TV into the quickly darkening shadow of the opposite wall. I knew my air-conditioning vent was in it's path, and I have to admit I half expected to see the vent wide open to allow such a creature into my room. During it's walk I was rubbing my eyes, blinking and so on, but it continued to be visible until it had gone entirely into shadow. I slid along my wall to the light switch, just to make sure, and thankfully it was not there anymore when I flipped the lights on. I have read about spider creatures being used by evil government-employed shaman to create "webs" which prevent remote viewers and astral projectors from visiting certain locations. But I don't that explains what I was seeing. I really hope to never journey into a world with freaky giant bugs, but I do think this could have been a bleed-through from somewhere else. To be fair, he was walking on my ceiling, not in mid-air on an invisible surface, so where ever this thing is from, my ceiling is there too. Maybe it's like in Constantine where once you cross-over the whole world is the same, just in hell. Or that there's an archetypal world under this one.. that has giant arachnids. <br /><br />Last night, before I walked up my stair, I think I met a man, or woman, who really wasn't there. This is a new house, and though it does have its creeks and cracks, it doesn't seem like a "haunted house." The women in my family tend be the ones more likely to see ghosts, but again, no such sighting has occurred here. Nor do I personally think there's a non-corporeal presence here. Disclaimers aside, I either have to admit that I'm more absent minded than I thought, or something made contact last night. Now, I <i>am</i> extremely absent minded. For instance I'll sometimes forget if I've already shampooed my hair in the shower. I do a lot of thinking in there though, so it's easy to lose track of what has been soaped up already and what has not. Well to make a short story longer, I had just watched <i>Frailty</i> as well, which is about demons. So, I'm getting ready to go upstairs to my bathroom and I'm getting a glass of water in the kitchen. At about that time I either scratched my own neck and didn't realize it, or someone (or some-thing) scratched it for me. I wasn't itching, so I'm not sure why I would have done it. By the time I got to the bathroom and had a look in the mirror, the scratch was feeling very much like a rug-burn on my neck. There were, and still are, two raised reddish lines running from basically the back-left of my neck up at an angle towards my left ear. At first I thought it was obviously self-inflicted, but the angle is perpendicular to the direction I would normally scratch my neck with my left hand. Even my right hand wouldn't scratch at that angle. Also my fingernails, which I <i>do</i> keep rather long, didn't have skin under them. I don't know what to make of this one except that I either scratch myself at odd angles without consciously knowing about it, or something else scratched me. Meh, they know where to find me, and maybe next time I can get them to scratch my back instead.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01612156064544756274noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230063815373634353.post-20913821026744937632011-09-14T14:46:00.000-07:002016-06-27T22:38:55.167-07:00The Sync Book - Out NowI wrote Chapter 3 in this one. So.. yeah, check it out!<br />
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Whether we see it or not depends upon the level of attention we give to observing the details and establishing ties between them." - Alejandro Jodorowsky, <i>The Way of Tarot</i></blockquote><div align="center"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEIYXLN-Fgfc2B7hdblcD2-5GtcGc4p9n-USkJPPGEaOSj3LkkVS9kN-fjsZunLPwHywNpJtdRsJVuc3F3AUKGkf59H2wSmLfrsnn5lX15ygV5d_ImrcbUxYLy3xIBvpTITLQ3osXwT5I/" height="400"></div><br /><br />I was sitting around thinking, "I'd rather be playing poker," and while cutting the deck one-handed, I decided to lay the cards out and see what was what in a deck of standard playing cards. I happen to be using a generic no-name Made in China deck which companies use as promotional items, though I do have a Gemaco and Bicycle deck for comparison.<br /><br />First, a rundown of what you'll find, in case you've lived in a cave all your life. A deck of playing cards has 52 cards and 2 jokers. It's split into four suits, which in America, France, and just about any place that isn't Germany, are: Diamonds, Clubs, Hearts and Spades. The Diamonds and Hearts are red and the Clubs and Spades are black. Each suit has 13 cards, an Ace with a value of 1, numbered cards from 2 through 10, and 3 face cards (royal, or court cards), also called "paint" in poker: the the Jack, Queen and King.<br /><br /><div align="center"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPfIgSD3WHy3cAzgn1hd_f7us2747DGxVSnq4csFsWAOOj9xdFuvduWuiG-f5zAfYaVgZTJKOTBFS6wjbB_O-pQAz2mkLfo004BiuW5QHWo38N4RmkinG53CLK6xtdQQaaeO41dGrTPg8/" height="400"></div><br /><br />It has been suggested that some meaning might lie behind these cards. For instance in a lunar calendar there would be 13 months of exactly 4 weeks (28 days) which equals 52 weeks, for the 13 cards per 4 suits totaling 52 cards. Of course, with 28 days per month and 13 months, that comes out to only 364 days leaving us with the extra "day out of time" whose place might be filled by the Joker. Chances are that this is all incidental, but it is a nice mnemonic device as there are still 52 weeks in our solar calendar with the 13th month broken up among the rest. And the 4 suits could instead be seen as the 4 seasons, with Spring and Summer as the red/sunny months, and fall and winter as the black suits.<br /><br />The Aces can be played as a low or high card, Alpha or Omega, for example: as a straight from A-2-3-4-5 with the Ace as the lowest card, or 10-J-Q-K-A with the Ace as the highest card. Playing them high came about during the Revolution in France where it was a symbol that the lowest can reach the highest. Seeing the 4 Aces as high, we might separate the deck into 16 High cards (J-Q-K-A x 4), and 36 Low cards (2 thru 10 x 4). I'm using the terms "High" and "Low" to separate numbered cards from the court cards (and sometimes Ace). The number 36 can symbolize 666 (1+2...+35+36=666), the Magic Square of the Sun numbers from 1 to 36 with 6 rows and columns adding to 111 (6x111=666), and 36 is the number of degrees of each internal angle of a pentagram. So, as you can see, there's some baggage there! However, when grouping Aces with the Low cards we end up with 12 High cards, and 40 Low cards. The number 40 can represent a period of trial, purification or preparation before the "birth" of something new, as in: the 40-weeks of pregnancy, the 40 days of the flood (birth waters), 40 years of wandering the desert (tribulation, purification), and so on. A rainbow is seen at about 40-42 degrees of light refraction, with 42-degrees being the spectrum of red light (the 40 Low cards plus the 2 Jokers, perhaps). "The number 40, by the way, is employed interchangeably with 42 in ancient numerical systems, thereby making an even multiple of weeks." - <i>Symbols, Sex, and the Stars</i> by Ernest Busenbark<br /><br />The Tarot, still used as a card game in it's own right, has 4 suits of 78 cards split into 22 Major Arcana (the picture cards) and 56 Minor Arcana (the numbered cards and court cards). The reason for the 4 extra Minor cards of the Tarot is the addition of one more court card per suit, giving us: the Page, the Knight, the Queen, and the King (or in the Thoth deck: the Knight, the Queen, the Princess, and the Prince).<br /><br /><div align="center"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4FVuEmrhcSadt8Sqd0-aDeFd1DvdKNn_1EreGkxq4zMo1XDF6npZNIB6GnIXItNgoa1VdKZLia4L09a9luDU0Q_LX9rX73RtADWHZ01zs_CrL7wV62E5x0guZ2jcltMftnZy60L_IOOE/" height="400"></div><br /><br />The Tarot has been connected to the Torah due to the similar spelling, and symbols such as the Tree of Life with it's 22 paths being connected both to the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet, and the 22 Major Arcana of the Tarot. The difference between the Tarot's 78 cards and modern 52-card decks is 26. The numeric value for YHWH/Yahweh/God in Hebrew is 26. One could say that "god was taken out of the cards" to make playing cards for gambling. Note that 52 is 26+26, two more "gods." So, the whole set of cards could be seen as a trinity of gods, or a single triune god: 26+26+26, which reduces to single digit 8+8+8 which totals 24 hours of a full day (12 day/red, and 12 night/black), and is symbolically the number of Jesus Christ: 888. <br /><br />Speaking of letter-number values, if we assign a number for each face card and Ace based on that letters position withing the English Alphabet, we get: A=1, J=10, K=11, Q= 17, for a total of 39. Taking the total 39 multiplied by each of the 4 suits gives us 156, which is 2x78/Tarot cards, or 2(26+26+26).<br /><br />Alchemy traditionally has 3 main stages: the Black, White and Red (sometimes with an intermediary Yellow or Rainbow stage before Red). In taking out one "26/God" from the Tarot, the Major Arcana and the 4 extra court cards, perhaps the White phase was also taken out of playing cards, leaving only Black and Red. You can separate the 52 cards into 26 Black and 26 Red. Seeing as how 26 can symbolize a god, we can see this as two gods on opposite ends of the spectrum, or two stages of God: beginning (Black) and end (Red).<br /><br />The 52 cards can be split up in a number of ways. For instance, you might break up the deck using the line of horizontal symmetry to separate the cards out. Some cards are mirrored top to bottom, like the 2-Hearts which has one heart at the top of the card, and an inverted heart at the bottom. Some cards aren't mirrored, such as the 3-Clubs which has 2 upright clubs in the top and middle, and one inverted club at the bottom. The symbol of the Club is not horizontally symmetrical, but the Diamond is, making the 3-Diamonds a symmetrical card.<br /><br /><div align="center"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8aSurTBwoh64zbdyhz0MB-5yfMDdOqVZlb-byjcN_Hq-2Q2U5wMLzE7fMmsTnmImso-r2JWhPVeC6mUQYJOJfZAhkTrVLc831ZaVgTbLZEEEGjLY2Uag4Hv8NgOZbvF-dzR3nlkusppA/"></div><br /><br />Going along like this, and counting Aces among the Low cards, we end up with 18 symmetrical to 22 non-symmetrical Low Cards and 12 face cards which are technically not mirrored across the center line, but do display the same image if inverted. That is, the Suicide King would still be stabbing himself with his left hand and looking to his right, even if the card were spun 180-degrees. The symmetrical 18 cards can be seen as 6+6+6, and the non-symmetrical 22 cards number the same as: the Major Arcana of the Tarot, letters in the Hebrew alphabet, and paths on the Tree of Life. It is also the highest double-digit in numerology that is not reduced to a single digit. <br /><br />Jodorowsky on symmetry, from <i>The Way of Tarot</i>:<blockquote>"I remembered that during my first trip to Japan, the guide leading me around the ancient imperial palace pointed out that no windows or doors were ever constructed in a straight line and that no windows or doors were divided into symmetrical squares. <b>In Japanese culture, the straight line and symmetry are considered to be demonic.</b> Actually, the study of sacred art shows that it is never symmetrical. The door of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris that is located to our left is wider than the door situated to our right. All symmetrical art is profane. Nor is the human body symmetrical: our right lung has three lobes, while our left one has two. The Tarot reveals that it is a sacred art because the upper portion of any card is never identical to the lower, nor the left side to the right. There is always a small detail, sometimes very difficult to make out, that breaks the resemblance."</blockquote>The reason that the face cards appear the same when flipped around is that it would be quite telling if a poker player were to turn their cards around because he wanted all the face cards to be heads up and feet down. So, unlike the pictures in the Tarot, playing cards have only a torso and head and one or two hands, and the same image is repeated on the bottom half to keep people from being tempted into flipping them around. The Gemaco decks have the suit symbol in the center of the face cards, making the Hearts, Spades and Clubs into non-symmetrical face cards, as those symbols have a definite top and bottom.<br /><br />Totaling the values of all the cards from A to 10 times the 4 suits equals 220. (There's the 22 again.) And adding up all the numbered cards, or rather adding all the individual pips on the cards (2 thru 10 x 4 suits), we get the sum of <a href="http://synchromystic.wikia.com/wiki/216">216</a>. 216 is a number which relates to a Hebrew concept of God, this time being the combination of 72 3-letter names, collectively called the "divided name" (72x3=216). And going back to the reckoning of time of our lunar calendar cards, 216 and 72 are numbers associated with the precession of the equinox: 72 years to move one degree in the precession with 12 Ages/Zodiac signs of <b>2,16</b>0 years each.<br /><br /><div align="center"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjonLyFImpl8N0eGgrSR-Xax5UFqdy3usoRprAqeSWvCCTIE89IEnHsz3DB3DNETsaLGsjjBEfZqbu1fuiTCI52g4SUqxz1qlUPunmuGEDdGblwUEExP_he-0ahr2-C-tCpiTBG1qPJGtQ/" height="400"></div><br><div align="center"><i>el demon</i></div><br /><br />Alexander Jodorowsky uses the World card, Le Monde, as a template for the mandala of the Tarot. Below is how the symbols on this Tarot card are laid out, with the corresponding playing card suits listed next to each Tarot suit:<blockquote>Cups/<b>Hearts</b> (top left) Receptive-Sky<br />Swords/<b>Spades</b> (top right) Active-Sky<br />Pentacles/<b>Diamonds</b> (bottom left) Receptive-Earth<br />Wands/<b>Clubs</b> (bottom right) Active-Earth</blockquote><div align="center"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuCkoZNK0NAKFOWUPLicpBYwRFeVMGrC-I6l3vtFgE0Nrbz0zyi2-5SYordxx03gzHi81reodYGrNROera7wyDTuD2vwg21LwannbyMhVis921YEceIhnvCQH10osbe-f-DnnnYR4VTBo/"></div><br /><br />Jodorowsky explains that in Western religious art, we are meant to mirror the god or temple. A Cathedral would have the receptive elements on our lunar/left and active elements on our solar/right, because in the West, the best we can do is to emulate God. Alternatively, Eastern art and temples are oriented as if we are to change places with it: the solar side of a temple would be on our left, and lunar side on our right. This is because we are supposed to aspire to <i>become</i> the Buddha or the temple and switch places with it, where those elements would then be on the correct sides.<br /><br />The World card of the Marseilles Tarot shows a woman with an active element, the baton, in her left hand (our right as we view her), and with the receptive retort in her right hand (our left). This shows that the Tarot, a Judeo-Christian creation, is oriented like a Western temple: a mirror. Looking at the suits, we find the receptive Cups/Hearts on the left, and the active Swords/Spades on the right. Again, a mirror. Also, we find that the red cards are to our left, and the black cards are to our right. This is interesting because I would think of red as an active color and black as being receptive, which would put the colors we see into an Eastern orientation. Tarot cards, however, don't have set colors for the specific suits because the colors add meaning to each card, and change accordingly. For playing cards at least, we might see a coincidental merging of Western and Eastern symbolism when the suits are laid out to match the World card.<br /><br />Further investigation of the Tarot brings out an interesting symbolic formula:<blockquote>"Out of four parts, three are almost identical, and one is different. And out of the three that are equal, two have more resemblance to each other. In other words: ([1+2] + 3) + 4." - Jodorowsky, <i>The Way of Tarot</i></blockquote>Some examples:<blockquote>In the four elements, three are similar (air, water, fire) and one different (earth). Among the three that are similar, two are more so (air, fire), and one is different (water). In other words: ([Air+Fire]+Water)+Earth.<p>On the human face, the ears, eyes, and nostrils are double, whereas the mouth is single. The eyes and ears are separated, while the nostrils come together into one nose. In other words: ([Ears+Eyes]+Nostrils)+Mouth.</blockquote>There are many more examples of this formula, especially in religious themes, but what of playing cards? In the standard suits, we have 3 symbols with a definite top-bottom orientation, and one (the Diamonds) which is horizontally symmetrical. Out of the 3 left, the Spades and Clubs both have a stand upon which they rest, so: ([Spades + Clubs] + Hearts) + Diamonds.<br /><br />Another example of the-one-that-is-most-different theme is found in the Tarot of Marseilles among the Queens of the Minor Arcana. The Queens all hold the symbol of their suit, but the Queens of Cups, Pentacles, and Wands are all holding an additional object; the Queen of Swords is not. An interesting inversion occurs in playing cards where all the Queens are holding a flower, yet this time it is the Queen of Spades(Swords) who is holding the additional object: a scepter. The same card is singled out, but for the opposite reason this time. The Queens of Spades is also the only Queen looking to our right. All the Queens have a crown with a red bottom-edge, except for the Q-Diamonds who has a black base on her crown. All the Queens have uncolored lines across their necks, except for the Q-Clubs whose neck is partially colored in. (This is not the case in the Bicycle deck where 2 have necks lines and 2 have white necks.)<br /><br />Among the Jacks, they all have blue on red in their crowns except for the J-Hearts. (Again, among the Bicycle face cards, there seems to be more of a pairing of cards. In this case the J-D and J-H both have white space in their crowns, though the J-Hearts sticks out among the 4 with a black crown base, and as the only one with yellow hair covering his whole neck.) The J-Spades is the only one with a leaf coming out from behind his crown, and is also the only one without a mustache. The J-Diamonds' hand is mostly hidden, with only his fingers showing, unlike the rest. The J-Hearts holds a leaf/feather while the rest hold a staff or scepter. He is also not seen holding the axe which is behind his head. It might be interpreted that he is about to be decapitated by someone else, not seen in the picture. They all have lines across their necks except for the J-Clubs whose neck is colored in with solid red. The next oddball is the J-Hearts whose neck has the lines but is colored yellow, leaving the J-Spades and J-Diamonds as having the most similar necks. Two are in profile and two are partially turned:<blockquote>"In these early cards, the Jack of Spades, Jack of Hearts, and King of Diamonds are shown from the rear, with their heads turned back over the shoulder so that they are seen in profile; however, the Rouen cards were so badly copied in England that the current designs are gross distortions of the originals." - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_card">Wikipedia, Playing Cards</a></blockquote>Among the Kings, the "Suicide King," K-Hearts, stands out as being the only one with his weapon interacting with him, as the only one with both hands visible, and also, as the only one without a mustache (and in the Bicycle deck, as the only one lacking the color red in his crown). The K-Diamonds, the only King in profile, is also the only one with a curved crown base. And the K-Clubs is the only one with blue in his crown rather than green (the green is black in Bicycle cards and 2 have blue along the base of their crown). The K-Diamonds, like the J-Hearts, has a axe coming from behind his head, though instead of holding another object, his hand is up as if in prayer.<br /><br />Perhaps other symbols have significance. Such as, that the Jacks have 6 eyes total among them, the Kings have 7, and the Queens have 8 eyes showing (for a total of 21, 7+7+7). However, I think I've taken up enough of your time, and given you something to ponder the next time you shuffle up and deal, so I'll color up and call it quits here. (Did I use enough poker slang for ya?!)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01612156064544756274noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230063815373634353.post-52336951075696654272010-09-15T00:07:00.000-07:002010-09-26T14:34:53.911-07:00Spatting Theory<div align="center"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghzhDD5W6q7pnvMkWmk7-nHK65gX8DBSy1C8oth9dw64cxnz1YrIP1cPMcMT7jZwHYqcV35WJi8gKqOP-ku4E2zCUfjInHKUYuVc2c9Cye6eV_I6xCzEcvEfnWs4RqwRSfHNH96cR7tpw/" border="0" /></div><br /><br /><br />Do you hear what I hear? It's the sound of my comical voice on Star Theory again! Kyle invited me back to talk about Gremlins, in movies and elsewhere. Here is the <a href="http://startheory.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/the-takeover/">Star Theory article</a> for the show. And here is the <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/star-theory/2010/09/15/the-takeover-gremlins-with-violator">podcast link</a>. And here is the <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/star-theory/2010/09/15/the-takeover-gremlins-with-violator.mp3?localembed=download">download</a> link. (It's 13.7MB You might have to right-click and choose "save link as...")<br /><br /><div align="center"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4uC8CRH05ub3QZqSsF6V7B9z3kd82rjOSQt24ZZNZV092FDhpXqz0K5nW4UIvOeZDOAgrcbGGI_IcFqnmaDK38DuBuLknbtbWpVO0qsXU0SbAmS42neApjmL74P26QRoDK88cisKMmUE/" border="0" /></div><br /><br />I just got back from my hiatus so I didn't have time to write anything to accompany this podcast, but I think between Kyle's post, and my <A href="http://thestygianport.blogspot.com/2008/12/opening-stargate-via-gremlins.html">previous article</a> on the subject, we've got it pretty well covered. <br /><br />The idea that gremlins are both bad and good came up during the discussion, as well as the idea of gremlins being externalized inner demons. Coupled with this, scarredsoul called in to the show and poked fun at my slothy nature by questioning my opinion of the seven deadly sins. Just after the show I read something in <i>The Song Of The Bird</i> which I think goes well with my attitude on the subject:<blockquote>A preacher put this question to a class of children: "If all the good people were white and all the bad people were black, what color would you be?"<br />Little Mary replied, "Reverend, I'd be streaky!"</blockquote>And today I read something in Alan Watts' (not Alan Watt's) book <i>The Book On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are</i> which goes well with the above sentiment:<blockquote>Thus for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white. As when Tweedledum and Tweedledee <i>agreed</i> to have a battle, the essential trick of the Game of Black-and-White is a most tacit conspiracy for the partners to conceal their unity, and to look as different as possible. It is like a stage fight so well acted that the audience is ready to believe it a real fight. Hidden behind their explicit differences is the implicit unity of what Vedanta calls the Self, the One-without-a-second, the <i>what</i> there is and the <i>all</i> there is which conceals itself in the form of you.</blockquote><div align="center"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz0qePI10HSqPH0ZXiBSorAupE1R1-xXoxKhrqYAXgbgjr_lpAFmzyGXmq3aj9fZjsm_zoyJM3TNwMF94CdyaTuUTFSqadNooUyHgYY-_Wl2KcPLKNTBsF5RqLmGz9AjbTv9Acm6sKkII/" width="650" border="0" /></div><br /><br />Well, that's all I have to say about that. Per tradition, the title of this blog post is an anagram of the name of the blog :) And the opening line of this post is my favorite part of Gremlins part 1; when the mom finds the cocoons and starts walking down stairs and the gremlins put on the Christmas record with the song lyrics, "do you hear what I hear?"Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01612156064544756274noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230063815373634353.post-72260506095501494772010-05-22T00:10:00.002-07:002010-05-23T00:59:02.174-07:00Sex & Death"Sex sells," and as the newspapers say, "if it bleeds, it leads." If "sex sells," then what exactly is it selling? Long ago in some distant foggy memory I had read or heard about the idea of anchoring ideas to specific emotional states, and how movies create and release tension through pictures and music/sound effects. So, I decided that sex was a pretty strong emotion, and payed attention to what it was being anchored to. Turns out the answer, more times than not, is death. Many, many times, a scene of death precedes, follows, or runs parallel to a scene of sex, flashing back and forth between the two scenes. Sex is selling us death. But is it a mythological subconscious archetype linking death to regeneration like winter leads into spring, or would that be too optimistic an appraisal of the magick being worked in the Holy Woods of Los Angeles?<br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><object width="720" height="419"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=11942406&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=11942406&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="720" height="419"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/11942406">Sex & Death</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/violator">ViolatoR</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p></div><br /><br />Most sex and death scenes happen in "cop drama" type shows or bad movies, neither of which I own, so I made due with what I had which should be sufficient to support that I'm on to something here! I left out of this video a scene from 1996's <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115964/">Crash</a> because it didn't fit so well. However, this film depicts characters who have linked sexual pleasure to the excitement and fear of car crashes, and to the mutilation of the human body, as well as the mechanization of a repaired body, held together by pins, stitches, and other medical apparatus. Is there an intended or unintended side-effect of this movie trope which, over time through repetition, causes people to feel violent when thinking of sex and feel turned on when thinking of violence? Something to keep our base instincts overstimulated and to leave little room for higher instincts to come into play. I was flipping through my dad's old copy of the Anthony Burgess's <i>A Clockwork Orange</i> and on the inside of the cover he wrote: "Deprived by science of the capacity to make moral choices, Alex becomes a “clockwork orange,” something mechanical that appears organic."<br /><br />Despite the possible programming usage of Sex & Death, it does represent a duality of types, since all things that are created through sexual or creative energy will dissolve away in a type of death at some point or another, as Osho and Joseph Campbell pointed out.<br /><br />For the French, an orgasm is <i>la petite mort</i>, the little death. Wikipedia calls it a "spiritual release that comes with orgasm," presumably as a metaphor for the release of the spirit at death.<br /><br />While traditionally left unnamed, the 13th tarot card of the Major Arcana featuring a Grim Reaper, or similar character, is named "La Mort," (Death) as seen in the popular Rider-Waite-Smith tarot. La Mort is an easy anagram of Mortal, which would indicate life, and thus a duality of life(sex/generation) and death hidden in the card. Also, L-a-M-o-r-t contains L-AMOR-t, and <i>amor</i> means love, as seen in the phrase <i>Amor vincit omnia</i>, "love conquers all" (even death?).<br /><br />Here's some stuff I forgot to add when I published this post, just more random Sex & Death stuff:<br /><div align="center"><br />"Ultimately, I have to come to terms with the fact that all my songs are either about sex or death. I'm increasingly distrustful of any songs that are not about one of those two subjects." - “JT” of JT & The Clouds<br /><br /><a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/the-11-craziest-unexpected-sex-related-deaths-in-history/davehoward">11 craziest sex related deaths in history.</a><br /><br /><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMHgHF3RQpImk6FW61msgIU7Q3Ckjtjsn20ddvPSdEjbEd_GcxofQcNxRkBfTK-D-wewETpC4tYjKxyWyFJbopvfI0JcBr6vKxsSIEGibu3FP2vsbcE56z1jlOcEmFocrN4s6QNCszr4A/"><br /><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ6Xu0Vi3FJA38wPnQHnp5F9_cits6YuFkifjCZVNuB5VG_Z_vOq0uUMrKKBaf5OznW8lsV-DKt-9MSesJMMy1X15Eai48eI5D2YSWUNvABvzZUuul2dNORECGVQYDajFYY2XUVsMh_7g/"><br /><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpUvzkbloYxixn6plYXxCjd9yBA-lAX-L0sQFaXfx7sjtFTNAqMu2J5FLkaCJr9KqLigh1u79iI1kOgSnKsSA9Lh-3anOqkE7pBy6TIH9A81rbd_Rafl3hXh1G4tPqFoVsFYCg4Sd4Y-M/"><br /><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6cqdshvuamvJENebV_OOOEjAvjrtpdfI2EMMe6N-YblfjQUuUC-5iHslFREyX42cVQcJp-_hDNNSvEhy0l3Q2tesSvR6-UGBHCO8vYZUBVqFxsqlbelD9u896OWwsB1lfv8PH65nwor0/"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkT_vTf6Yj46jPYXgRC28Hi2y6Hziy0Jn7IPP-wOlv36e7MspPXA2Ydwwbp2OUmqvg26NFHcVILyiJqvLod1v_faOUQFXLfuZ18u0R_wJH-44ogpzX1oTedXaMyq8tZbFIQffQwKkzlhk/"><br /></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01612156064544756274noreply@blogger.com35tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230063815373634353.post-1439666968733597502010-05-16T23:52:00.000-07:002010-06-08T21:33:25.163-07:00ZardozHere's a video by Paulo Samoes using clips from <a href="http://thestygianport.blogspot.com/2010/02/my-dinner-with-celtic-rebel-part-4.html">My Dinner With The Celtic Rebel - Part 4.</a> It's just the parts of the podcast where we talked about <i>Zardoz</i>. My voice actually sounds better in this video I think... :D I'm actually fighting my lazy urges and working diligently on my next video - <b>Sex & Death</b>. So, look forward to that! Woooo! Meanwhile, enjoy this video from a fellow soul traveler!<br /><br /><div align="center"><object width="720" height="540"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=12353767&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=ff000d&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=12353767&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=ff000d&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="720" height="540"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/12353767">ZARDOZ final version</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user3833812">paulo samoes</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p><p>Zardoz analogy by Celtic Rebel and Stygian Port.</p></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01612156064544756274noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230063815373634353.post-34521289407772398362010-05-13T20:23:00.000-07:002010-05-14T14:03:42.473-07:00Total Recall vs The Sixth DayHere's an old video I made just for my own amusement. I was going to include it in a collaborative project but the other blogger and I decided to do something else. I've been gone for two weeks then have been busy since I've been back, so while I'm waiting for a few collaborations to pan out, I've decided to start working on two videos, one short one and one long one that may never get completed knowing me. :D PS: I made it for jewtube originally so it's a bit condensed and doesn't cover all the similarities, but they wouldn't allow embedding on it so I had to transfer it to Vimeo.<br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><object width="720" height="419"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=11748980&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=11748980&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="720" height="419"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/11748980">Total Recall vs The 6th Day</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/violator">ViolatoR</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p></div><br />I could have gone into an old school synchromystic mode and pointed out how Adam's mirror has 9 and 11 on it, and that he makes thermite which may have been used in the towers on 9/11. He makes it at his snow/ski vacation store which is next to a pyramid shaped building ("pillarmid") surrounded by K2 ski/snowboard brand logos. But 'eh, that's so boring.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01612156064544756274noreply@blogger.com5