It’s A 5D World!

Do we already have extradimentional perception?  Is the mind another dimension? We can’t measure the images in our mind’s eye, but they are envisioned in 3D so  we imagine a way to measure these images.

When we dream, is that yet another dimension within our minds where we take up residence if only briefly?

No one can say for certain where the mind is, or where it comes from. It can’t be seen or measured, yet everything we are is a product of our mind. Or someone else’s mind. And that would suck, if it doesn’t already. Defying the laws of physics, it would suck and blow at the same time.

Is the quantum universe still another dimension?  Everything on a subatomic level is governed by the by laws that border on supernatural and fly in the face of the standard model of physics.

E=mc2 seems to be an outcome of quantum mechanics, rather than the engine that runs things. To the chagrin of us all, this elegant, one inch equation may only be our closest approximation to the outcome of quantum mechanics.

Matter seems to be the result of a quantum wish.

So there’s your 5D folks! Even urban legends have some basis in fact!

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Are You A Shaman?

Do we all have a bit of the shaman in us?

In a state of deep hypnosis, compliments of all the things that hypnotize us, we seem to live out our lives in a trane. By remaining plugged into our trance inducing devices, we unconsciously work dark magic, in our thoughts, words, and deeds.

Ever consider the word “spell”? Seems to have two meanings. We cast a spell, using the language of a kind of poetry, and we spell words, using the language of the alphabet. So when we speak, are we casting a spell? Do we speak from under a spell? What do our thoughts and words bring us? How does this “magic” materialize?

Who’s intentions are we acting out, unawares?

How many people even know their own intentions, truly?

Why do we pray for miracles to change our luck? How many of us are capable of working our own miracles, with a more beneficial magic, if we tuned into our true natures and clarified our true intentions?

What do the Shamen who practice dark magic want?

What do the Shamen who practice beneficial magic want?

The first, I think is enslavement, and the second is freedom.

Enslavement is far more comfortable for most people. Freedom is hard earned. Fear bars the way.

I think think that’s why this  metaphor is so often parabled in mythologies of the heroe who slew fearsome underworld creatures in one fell swoop and earned a place in paradise.

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Mystery of the Garden of Eden

The mythical Garden of Eden pre-dates the Judeo-Christian account, having its origins in Sumerian cosmogeny. There is an area in the same region that is a very strong candidate for the existence of a place called “Eden”.  A map would be handy. The closest I could come to guessing where it was, is where Palestine now is.

Hashem, who is the God of Abraham, claimed the Garden of Eden as his own, and was greatly offended by goddess worship, and the fact that the sex rites occured under her asupices, rather than his.

The myth itself begs the question as to why God would put a tempting serpent in the Garden of Eden when he created it, then deliberately put Adam and Eve in harm’s way. Logic dictates that the “serpent” must have been there first. That the Garden of Eden was her sacred place where her rites were conducted.

Why didn’t God drive the serpent out of the garden? The most he could do was diminish her status in the mind of the world, but he could not kill or banish her.

Genesis depicts God as driving “the man” out of the garden. “The man” was created outside the garden, while Eve was created from the man, inside the garden.

Or perhaps Eve was there first, and for whatever reason, God could not drive her out either.

Did she, or didn’t she leave the garden of Eden?

Was the Eve that Adam later knew, after paradise, the same Eve?

If I can confirm the location of where the Garden of Eden was situated, and find older stories depicting it, it might be possible to find out which religious rites took place there.

If I can’t find out the latter with the info available, I will need the help of a cuneiform expert who may have access to accounts of Sumerian rites that aren’t published yet. There’s a mountain of cuneiform tablets still awaiting interpretation.

Still just getting the location and time line will shed a lot of light on this question.

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Unspeakable, or Ineffable?

The Romans, who embraced the Greek religion, dubbed Persephone Proserpina, which means “first snake”.   In the Homeric epics she is called Persephone, and according to wikipedia, it is suspected that Persephone, being so hard for the Greeks to pronounce, may hail from an epoch earlier than the Greeks. I wonder if Persephone means “first word”.

Is Persephone a Mycenean name? I don’t know. But it begs an answer.

The Judeo Christian serpent is famously depcited in classical art, as part serpent wrapped around the base of a tree, with the body and face of a woman, presiding over Eve as she hands Adam, depicted at her feet, the fruit.

Was it a religious ritual involving sexual comsumation? Why was this ritual so offensive to  God?

Judging by the look on his face, and his position in relation to Eve, Adam doesn’t seem to be putting up much of a fuss.

The painting strongly suggests that Eve ruled over Adam, and that women once ruled over religion.

Until they fell.

The links to the Minoan snake goddess are all too clear. I don’t have a handle on her handle yet. Ha ha.

Although more recent, the Roman dubbing hails an earlier Persephone than their predecessors, the Greeks.

It appears the Myceneans, or the Greeks, may have transformed Persephone from a serpent, into a young maiden.

This is indicated in the myth where Zeus disguises himself as a snake in order to seduce her.  The seduction seems to have taken place before Persephone’s abduction by Hades.

The story goes that Persephone’s beauty rivaled that of Aphrodite’s and all the gods were enamoured of her.  To save her from the unwelcome prospect of suitors and marriage, Demeter hides Persephone in a cave, guarded by snakes. Zues, out of his mind with desire, transfroms himself into a snake, steals into the cave, and wraps around her, “many a loving coil.”

Was Persephone a serpent in this myth? Did her union with Zeus, which produced Zagreus, evoke a transformation for Persephone from a snake (Minoan snake goddess) into a Greek, and did this confer upon her human form? Did this represent an elevation of sorts – tranformation from a barbaric goddess into a diminuative, civlized one?

That she is depcited as a virgin in both the Greek and Roman tellings of the fall of Persephone/Proserpina is a blatant contradiction to what I imagine is the more ancient telling of the myth – with Zues in the Hades role, but as a lover instead of a captor.

So Persephone could have started out as a serpent, changed into a pubescent girl, then by the Romans, back into a serpent again, all the while, with each change of name marking the rise and fall of dynasties and civilizations.

Will the etymology of Persephone reveal a Greek, or Mycenean origin?

Everything that went on within the temple of Eleusis, during the Greater Mystery rite,  was top-secret, on pain of death.

Myths account that the epiphany itself was ineffable. To me that means no one, not the greatest minds, from the one time greatest civilization on earth, could articulate the experience.

They insisted that it was experience that transcended intellect in supremacy.  Maybe intellect gets in the way at some point ,who knows?

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The Sumerians Then!

When I think back on Sumerian mythology, there is lots and lots of first person dialogue. The myth depicting Inanna’s love song to her betrothed has her exclaiming “Plow my field! Plow my field!” There once was a time when you could find that poem online, but I’m not sure if you can anymore.

She was later to ditch her beloved for being a douche, when he did not grieve her descent into the underworld, where she was struck dead, left to hang on a hook until one brave, lesser god rescued her.

The epic of Gilgamesh is full of poetic dialogue. The manner of Sumerian speech seemes to be charged with great passion and urgency, as well as poetry and beauty.

The Sumerian myths might hold a clue as to the origins of speech. I just don’t know if it’s possible given the info available to me, to discern who was the first in Sumerian myth to speak. And I have a poor track record for following up.

I operate under the conviction that everything that is true, is found in mythology.

So if my premise is true that language originates with infants, I expect myth to confirm it.

Of course, it’s possible that it could be true, but not found in myth.  Or perhaps language didn’t originate with infants.

The more myth can confirm what emperical evidence demonstrates, the more I prove my pet case that myths need to be factored into our views on history, religion, politics, and science. And of course philosophy. And poetry, although I wonder if we have really achieved poetry since the days of Ovid, and those who came before.

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Out of the Mouths of Babes.

Was the very first word uttered by an infant?  Was it “ma?”   Wouldn’t it be funny if the origins of language can be traced to infants?

At what age do we start vocalizing vowels and consonants, long before stringing them together to form a word? Did language grow and develop between mother and infant, as mother understands the infants seeming gibberish?  Through collaboration, did they name the objects of interest together?

I wonder what the myths have to say about the first to speak? Speaking is a very strong theme in Greek myth, what with people being struck dumb by angry gods.

The word “phonics” seems to have roots in Persephone. The last syllable is connected to speaking, plus I believe it’s a name given to her by the Greeks. Prior she went by Kore, which is supposed to mean “girl”. I wonder if Kore is also a Greek moniker, and if she went by yet another name in Minoan lore.  I’m uncertain about the first syllable. My initial search didn’t turn up much, but I think I’ll look again.

I don’t recall Titans depicted as speaking in myths, or even the gods for that matter. In my memory, they are occasionally depicted making deals and agreements, but in third person.

The first person I recall, who spoke in the first person, is Persephone, but memory is fuzzy on which era – Roman, or Greek? If she is the first and/or only one to speak in the first person in Greek mythology that would be interesting.

Memory jogged. If she was screaming “Mother! Mother! A rape! A rape!” then it almost had to be the Roman Era. If she is decribed in the third person as screaming and crying for mother in Greek mythology, then perhaps the gods don’t begin to speak in quotable statements, until the Roman era.

Not sure what that might mean about language though – I look for myths to back up what I say, and sometimes they dont. But they often do.

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On Human Evolution

A belief, or a hope that’s becomming a popular one to have, concerns the future of human evolution. Many 2012ers believe that our salvation is at hand. Many  Jews, Christians, and Muslims believe the same.

It seems that first, catastrophic events must occurr. Things sure seem to be pointing in that direction, but some of us can clearly see that we created all that.

The prophesies were written millenea ago, and the human race has been fulfilling them ever since.  It’s as if we were on auto pilot, or living out a program written in code by poets, scholars, and historians, long dead, some of them long forgotton, while others are long remembered.

It’s the theme of violent sacrifice that seems to have the human race careening towards our demise, threatening to take all of life with us.

Sacrafices, large and small, are believed to ensure survival and in some cases, salvation. A place in eternity.

Even science is playing this out with the large hadron collider. They are willing to sacrifice the earth for a glimpse into eternity. They can couch it any way they like, but they are subject, like the rest of us, to dark, primitive, unconscious forces, that seem to be driving us all toward extinction, rather than evolution.

One thing is clear to me. It would be really great if everyone believed the same thing. Religion has been trying to make that happen. Politics has been trying to make that happen. Science is trying to make that happen.

Oh, if only science could give us the answer. If only E=mc2 were the ultimate truth… then we’d be guided in harmony by a set of laws that everyone could agree on.

Personally, I have taken great comfort in entertaining the notion that we will ascend into 5D.  It’s a fantasy, but visiting it often has led me to believe that there actually IS a concrete step we could take in the direction of human evolution. Simple too.

It is believed that we only use a small percentage of our brain, and it has occured to me that the reason for this could be that most of us are either left brained or right brained.

Only a small number of the population is middle brained. These people enjoy equal access to either side of the brain, and both sides are more or less in harmony.

Often left brainers hate right brainers, and vice versa. It seems to be true that the different camps have a completely different set of aesthetic values that seem to conflict with one another – or else elicit competition in terms of which brain rules supreme. Left, or right.

What would happen to us, if we were able to learn to access both sides of our brain? Would we stop hating ourselves? Would we stop hating each other?

Would we be able to get a fresh perspective on science and religion that enables all of us to agree on some fundamental truths and laws?

Would we be more engaged and fulfilled, and less needing to take it from others?

Would more of us be friends?

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Starting a New Blog

I need something lighter and more playful to write about. The way I’m going about it now, requires much more involvement than I can afford at this time.

I think these explorations were more to settle some questions as to why the world is the way it is, and especially the question of why religion has torn apart not only me, but the world at large.

The roots of religion are violent and tribal. We haven’t overcome that.

I would say on the whole, my experience of religion has been a violent, soul-destroying one.  Digging back through the relics I get to examine the wheel that crushed me, and to maybe see it coming next time.

Many people are coming around to realizing how everything we invest in, consistently and routinely, is a form of religion.

As religion is observed for our salvation, many of our daily rituals are in aid of survival for some, and salvation for those who excel in this capacity. They know how luck is made.

Salvation seems to hint of a greater mystery, as it refers to a happy life beyond the mortal coil.  A lesser taste of salvation is sweet success in 3D land.

I suppose the Greater Mystery offered evidence of the divine and eternal that was so compelling, that those who participated were moved beyond all doubt of a happy hereafter.

For we lesser mortals, I sense that the Greater Mysteries reveal themselves, little by little in day-to-day life. As we can accommodate them.

So I’m not sure if I need to continue this intensive search for who really got it all started. It seems to be enough to see the same thing over and over and over again in the ancient world to know that some very basic themes hold the entire world in thrall – whether or not we doth protest.

And now I want to frolic and flit from god to goddess, and see where the stream of consciousness flows, with each one.

Tomorrow I’ll be back with the link.

Watershed?

Nope. I come and check my stats and people still drop by, so I finally feel encouraged to break the silence, just to let you know that the impasse remains impassible. I need all my brain power to deal with whats tangible and immediate on my plate before I can luxuriate over the Greater Mysteries. But the truth is, the time isn’t right, right now, to go through that door – because when I do, it’s a corner turned forever. I believe what’s around that bend may be my personal Elysian Fields, but a dragon or two bar the way. Unlike Hercules, I can’t fell them in one fell swoop. So I’m content to plod my way to the inner summit.

The enjoyment I once derived from mythology is now being transferred to enjoyment in tackling 3D stuff. I never did have the energy to do more than one thing well, at a time.

In  the meantime, maybe I’ll re-circulate my blogs until the writer’s block is broken.

 

Just Too Damn Big

I’m crushed under the wieght of the questions that arise and I don’t even want to know what the questions are, so they brew like a festering, udefined lump in the back of my mind.

My attention wants to go to home improvement projects and my soon to be launched, social network.

As for mythology, I just can’t handle the truth right now, nor can I focus on the underlying truth of it all, as it presents itself to me. I’d rather have fun.

Death isn’t fun. Spending long periods of time contemplating death in all its myriad forms, well actually that is some kind of sad fun, but even that stops being fun when you’ve hit the brick wall of internal resistence.

Other things are more fun, and just happen to be more productive in a non virtual, 3D way.

Also, there is poetry and magic in nature, also non virtual, but not neessarily 3D. Well the outcome of magic is often 3D, but magic itself, not so much.

I’m finding what I like to refer to as the new witch craft simple, and easy to use. I see how people do it all the time, and most are unaware that this is what they are doing.

I’m going to see what kind of results my conscious use of this simple and easy bit of craft will yeild.