February 2012
13 posts
A RAVER'S MANIFESTO
Our emotional state of choice is Ecstasy. Our nourishment of choice is Love. Our addiction of choice is technology. Our religion of choice is music. Our currency of choice is knowledge. Our politics of choice is none. Our society of choice is utopian though we know it will never be. You may hate us. You may dismiss us. You may misunderstand us. You may be unaware of our existence. We can only...
When a civilization does not support creativity it begins to falter. When it distrusts its gifted people, rather than encouraging them, a nation is at least in trouble. Your psychologies, stressing the norm, made people frightened of their individual characteristics and abilities, because psychology’s norm did not fit the contours of any one human being. It did not touch the heights or the...
“I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me—shapes and...”
– Georgia O’Keeffe
The XX - Shelter (Lil Woody Remix)
“When we discover that the imagination really is the ground of being, then it...”
– Terence McKenna
If you want something to change, you must change your imaginal activity, for it is the one and only cause of your life. And you can believe anything into reality if you will not accept the facts your senses dictate; for nothing is impossible to imagine, and imagining—persisted in and believed—will create its own reality. Neville
Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship. Alfred A. Montapert
“The moment—the now—is like a river, which carries you forward, ever-changing and...”
– Gina Lake
January 2012
46 posts
Rameses B - Every Cloud
“The things we think about, brood on, dwell on, and exult over influence our life...”
– Eknath Easwaran
Those who fail to exhibit positive attitudes, no matter the external reality, are seen as maladjusted and in need of assistance. Their attitudes need correction. Once we adopt an upbeat vision of reality, positive things will happen. This belief encourages us to flee from reality when reality does not elicit positive feelings. These specialists in ‘happiness’ have formulated something they call...
“Let others vibrate as they vibrate and want the best for them. Never mind how...”
– Abraham
Dark Elixir - Lost In You
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Swami Vivekananda
“Our deepest feelings are precisely those we are least able to express, and even...”
– Neville Goddard
In all creation, in all eternity, in all the realms of your infinite being the most wonderful fact is that which is stressed in the first chapter of this book. You are God. You are the “I am that I am.” You are consciousness. You are the creator. This is the mystery, this is the great secret known by the seers, prophets, and mystics throughout the ages. This is the truth that you...
Truth Chronicles Vol #1
Deadmau5 - Strobe (Mr Fijiwiji Remix)
Mystery will control you, knowledge will make you the controller. Mystery will possess you. You cannot possess the mysterious; it is so vast and your hands are so small. It is so infinite, you cannot possess it, you will have to be possessed by it — and that is the fear. Knowledge you can possess, it is so trivial; knowledge you can control. This temptation of the mind to reduce every wonder,...
“Life is beyond meaning and that’s why it is so beautiful.”
– Jaggi Vasudev
The modern mind has lost all capacity to wonder. It has lost all capacity to look into the mysterious, into the miraculous - because of knowledge, because it thinks it knows. Osho
“The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.”
– William Blake
Maybe one day I’ll start posting what I write on here. Maybe. One day.
“Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and blame,...”
– Sutta Nipata
To have a vision, one must be prepared to receive it, and when it comes, to accept it. Thus when these inner urges become reality, only then can visions be fulfilled. The spiritual side of life knows everyone’s heart and who to trust. How could a vision ever be given to someone to harbor if that person could not be trusted to carry it out. The message is simple: commitment precedes vision. High...
“With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all...”
– Osho
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This video is an improvised philosophical plunge down the rabbit hole—- Singularity, Imagination, Rapturous Awe… check it out for a mind meld!
Whatever the outside world is really like, we use our senses to explore and map it. The world is an infinity of possible sense impressions and we are only able to perceive a very small part of it. That part we can perceive is further filtered by our unique experiences, culture, language, beliefs, values, interests, and assumptions. Everyone lives in their unique reality built from their sense...
“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”
– Charles Dickens
Insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas. It’s as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that’s going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don’t understand the language they speak there. We’ve all felt that. And all of us, one way or another, are insane. Paulo Coelho
“One who often thinks and reflects develops his foresight and vision.”
– Imam Ali A.S
“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize...”
– Lao Tzu
The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. Chuck Palahniuk
“Humans are on a journey of awareness which has momentarily been interrupted by...”
– Carlos Castaneda
Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. Rumi