IN HEAVEN ALL IS WELL

"I am always in love."

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:14:08 -0400

“I am always in love.”

- Ernest Hemingway

"Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:39:03 -0400

“Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?”. Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others…””

- Timothy Leary

Become a Conscious Creator of Reality in 5 Steps

Wed, 15 May 2013 13:21:00 -0400

Mastering the Stages of the Self-Determination of Reality

Initiation is the process of ceasing to be a passive subject of reality and of becoming a conscious creator within that reality.

It is the hard path. The path less taken. The rewarding path. The often fatal path. The free path.

Here’s how to self-will that process in five steps.

1. Start With the Body

Get and stay healthy. Exercise. Eat right. This is the step that so many skip, and which comes back to haunt them later. The body and mind are inseparable; don’t make the mistake of dividing them.

The body is the cursor of your existence, the tip of the iceberg, and the easiest part to change. Positive changes made to the body have a compound effect on the rest of life. Start here. If you can change your physicality, you’ll have a surplus of energy to use in the rest of your life and automatically open new doors. You’ll be a more positive person. People will respond to you differently. This is true, lasting consciousness alteration.

Energy work, breath work and other modalities for changing the body can be excellent here but nothing short-cuts the basic, common-sense steps of exercise and diet. Yoga can be excellent for some, though not enough for others.

2. Meditate

Start an insight-based meditation practice. The varieties are endless, but simple is often best. Learn how to sit still. Learn how to breathe deeply and naturally. Sit and watch your thoughts without judgement or clinging. Let them pass through and waft away without grabbing for them. Start at ten minutes a day. Aim for an hour a day if you can. Half an hour is fine. But do it every day, like brushing your teeth. There is no single practice which will improve your life and outlook more.

3. Learn How to Change the Story

Who you are and what the world is are a series of carefully crafted and nested stories that were created long before you were born, will likely long outlive you, and which you will be a subject of as long as you don’t consciously examine them. With the strong foundation you’ve built from exercise (self-directed change) and meditation, start looking at your life objectively. Ask yourself where you’re complicit in other people’s stories. If you like them, stay in those stories. If you don’t, don’t. You’re not bound to any of it, though remember that if you want to get rid of the bad aspects of something you’ll probably have to lose the good aspects, too.

The story of who you are, were, will be: you don’t have to accept any of this. If you want, bypass selective editing and let the whole thing go. All of it. Stay on the blank page as long as you want; then write a new story if you like. Just remember that you’ll have to write in roles for other people that they like if you want others to play along.

The more that you meditate, the more you let go of external determination, the more that you will keep coming back to yourself—your own simple presence, being, breath. Note that this would be why we started with step one.

But also note that “externally imposed” doesn’t necessarily mean “bad.” You may, in fact, already be living in the Best of All Possible Worlds. Your aim should simply be to bring every facet of your life into explicitly conscious awareness. More awareness = more freedom to choose what happens next.

4. See the Others

True initiation happens when you stop giving your power away to others—gods, masters, saviors, messiahs, groups, relationships, addictions, corporate ideas, media figures, mythologies, stories, ideologies—and give it back to yourself. There’s a reason why you probably haven’t been doing that: It’s terrifying. It means taking responsibility for your own life and systems of meaning in the face of meaninglessness—but them’s the breaks. It’s called growing up. Put yourself on the spot.

Now take another look at the people around you, remembering that you are no different than anybody else. In fact, you are less than them in some ways now: you’ve shed some illusions and possibly some of the support that came along with them. If you want to leave your cave, you’ve got to deal with the woods.

The people around you are the same consciousness, the same will-to-power that you are. They’re unconsciously moving within largely inherited behaviors and stories that they have consciously chosen because those keep them safe. Let go of that stuff, and you won’t be safe—and people may well respond to you as something that is Not Safe. But you will be (more) free. Free to move as you will, join up with new stories as you will, create new stories as you will—with no guarantees. Leave the others be. Do not attempt to drag them with you. Do not attempt to divest them of their illusions, unless they ask. Respect them and the lives they are choosing to live with the same consciousness you are. Or they will make your life, quite literally, a living hell.

5. Face the World

The more self-determined you become, the more and stranger opportunities you will be given to take new paths. You can stay in the self-gratification loop, which is fine, or you can take a look at the world-as-it-is and ask yourself one simple question: How can I help?

It’s probably not how you think you can. Or maybe it’s exactly how you think you can. But, put simply, you can take off your fetters and kind of hang around loitering, or you can use your new freedom to walk to the place you know your efforts will assist other beings the most. Ask yourself “With the talents and tools I have, what is the optimal life I can lead to assist the greatest number of people?” Or, if you’re more fatalistic, “What is the life I was meant to live?”

Good luck. The Final Secret of the Illuminati is this: Show up. There’s no shortage of need for free pairs of hands to chop wood and carry water.

A TED Talk That Might Turn Every Man Who Watches It Into A...

Sun, 12 May 2013 17:01:47 -0400

A TED Talk That Might Turn Every Man Who Watches It Into A Feminist? It’s Pretty Fantastic.

"When there is no way out, there is always a way through. So don’t turn away from the pain. Face it...."

Sun, 12 May 2013 16:30:47 -0400

“When there is no way out, there is always a way through. So don’t turn away from the pain. Face it. Feel it fully. Feel it - don’t think about it! Express it if necessary, but don’t create a script in your mind around it. Give all your attention to the feeling, not to the person, event, or situation that seems to have caused it. Don’t let the mind use the pain to create a victim identity for yourself out of it. Feeling sorry for yourself and telling others your story will keep you stuck in suffering. Since it is impossible to get away from the feeling, the only possibility of change is to move into it; otherwise, nothing will shift.”

- Eckhart Tolle (via scarrollyouaway)

"Those words inscribed on the ring[ THIS TOO SHALL PASS] are not telling you that you should not..."

Sun, 12 May 2013 16:30:32 -0400

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Those words inscribed on the ring[ THIS TOO SHALL PASS] are not telling you that you should not enjoy the good in your life, nor are they merely meant to provide some comfort in times of suffering. They have a deeper purpose: to make you aware of the fleetingness of every situation, which is due to the transience of all forms – good or bad. When you become aware of the transience of all forms, your attachment to them lessens, and you disidentify from them to some extent. Being detached does not mean that you cannot enjoy the good that the world has to offer. In fact, you enjoy it more. Once you see and accept the transience of all things and the inevitability of change, you can enjoy the pleasures of the world while they last without fear of loss or anxiety about the future. When you are detached, you gain a higher vantage point from which to view the events in your life instead of being trapped inside them. You become like an astronaut who sees the planet Earth surrounded by the vastness of space and realizes a paradoxical truth: The earth is precious and at the same time insignificant. The recognition that This, too will pass brings detachment and with detachment another dimension comes into your lie inner space. Through detachment, as well as nonjudgment and inner nonresistance, you gain access to that dimension.

When you are no longer totally identified with forms, consciousness – who you are becomes freed form its imprisonment in form. This freedom is the arising of inner space. It comes as a stillness, a subtle peace deep within you, even in the face of something seemingly bad. This, too, will pass. Suddenly, there is space around the event. There is also space around the emotional highs and lows, even around pain. And above all, there is space between your thoughts. And from that space emanates a peace that is not “of this world,” because this world is form, and the peace is space. This is the peace of God.

Now you can enjoy and honor the things of this world without giving them an importance and significance they don’t have. You can participate in the dance of creation and be active without attachment to outcome and without placing unreasonable demands upon the world: Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world cannot give you those things, and when you no longer have such expectations, all selfcreated suffering comes to an end. All such suffering is due to an overvaluation of form and an unawareness of the dimension of inner space. When that dimension is present in your life, you can enjoy things, experiences, and the pleasures of the sense without losing yourself in them, without inner attachment to them, that is to say, without becoming addicted to the world.

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- Eckhart Tolle (via relivebeginagain)

architectureland: Echolilia: A Father’s Photographic...

Sun, 12 May 2013 15:14:57 -0400

architectureland:

Echolilia: A Father’s Photographic Conversation with His Autistic Son. Timothy Archibald uses his camera to find an emotional bridge to his son Photographs and text from the book Echolilia: Sometimes I Wonder

My eldest son was born in 2001. He was always a kid who went to the beat of his own drummer. When he was 5, we began making photographs collaboratively as a way to find some common ground and attempt to understand each other. Soon after we began the project, Elijah was diagnosed on the autistic spectrum. Though the diagnosis gave me the words and history to understand my son better, it didn’t take away the mystery and the need to try to find an emotional bridge to him.”Echolilia” is an alternate spelling of a more common term, “echolalia,” used in the autistic community to refer to the habit of verbal repetition and copying that is commonly found in autistic kids’ behavior. I liked the idea of it: photography is a form of copying. Kids are a form of repetition. And looking at my kid with photography allowed me to see myself anew

"A Man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him."

Sat, 11 May 2013 15:29:28 -0400

“A Man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.”

- Magick in Theory and Practice, “Introduction and Theorems”, III:9

"If you believe that God will do all the things that you want Him to do, then surrender yourself to..."

Sat, 11 May 2013 12:49:29 -0400

“If you believe that God will do all the things that you
want Him to do, then surrender yourself to Him.
Otherwise let God alone, and know yourself.”

- Ramana Maharshi (via ashramof1)

"pleasure and pain, and fame and shame and loss and gain, are all the same."

Tue, 07 May 2013 15:36:53 -0400

“pleasure and pain, and fame and shame and loss and gain, are all the same.”

- Ram Dass

"The ego tends to equate having with Being: I have, therefore I am. And the more I have, the more I..."

Tue, 07 May 2013 13:32:41 -0400

“The ego tends to equate having with Being: I have, therefore I am. And the more I have, the more I am. The ego lives through comparison. How you are seen by others turns into how you see yourself.”

- Eckhart Tolle (via cosmofilius)

Photo

Mon, 06 May 2013 10:33:46 -0400

On Self Judgement

Sat, 04 May 2013 03:24:33 -0400

Question: How can I judge myself less harshly and appreciate myself more?

Ram Dass: I think that part of it is observing oneself more impersonally. I often use this image, which I think I have used already, but let me say it again. That when you go out into the woods and you look at trees, you see all these different trees….

http://www.ramdass.org/RD/on-self-judgement/

"Know then that the body is merely a garment. Go seek the wearer, not the cloak."

Sat, 04 May 2013 02:23:18 -0400

“Know then that the body is merely a garment. Go seek the wearer, not the cloak.”

- Rumi

revereche: jesuslizardjournal: asteeppriceforpie: we-are-star-...

Sat, 04 May 2013 02:22:44 -0400

revereche:

jesuslizardjournal:

asteeppriceforpie:

we-are-star-stuff:

This bizarre looking thing is “Ata the humanoid”, a mummified corpse found in the Atacama Desert ten years ago. It’s strange appearance led to many calling it an “alien”, claiming it as proof that extraterrestrials have visited Earth.

Well, it’s finally been submitted to a battery of tests and the results show it to be fully human. DNA analysis has even managed to pinpoint the location and nationality of its mother. The results do suggest that it was once alive and human, not a hoax, and so asks more questions than they answer.

The bone analysis suggests that this is not a fetus, but a child between the ages of 6-8. The specimen has just ten ribs (as opposed to 12), is just six inches long and has severe facial deformities. These symptoms do not match up to any known genetic disorder and experts have no idea how such a severely deformed and tiny child could have lived to age six.

More info here.

(via IFLS)

of course its human its got human skeletal structure why do people think aliens would have human skeletons god

just…

just the weirdest fucking shit…

wow…

Could it be a genetic disorder that petered out a long time ago? can that happen? Like how they think red hair will vanish from the gene pool in a few millennia? (Ha, as if.)

I wonder if it could have been sculpted from human remains … ?

"Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know."

Wed, 01 May 2013 16:10:34 -0400

“Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.”

- Alan Watts

"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt..."

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 04:51:22 -0400

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.”

- Dalai Lama XIV (via cosmofilius)

America by Allen Ginsberg with music by Tom Waits

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 02:40:34 -0400

America by Allen Ginsberg with music by Tom Waits

"Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably become it - that is your..."

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:11:23 -0400

“Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably become it - that is your punishment, but if you never know, then you can be anything. There is a truth to that. We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I am going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.”

- Stephen Fry (via siriusc)

"I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field,..."

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:44:38 -0400

“I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.”

- Sylvia Plath (via mentalfornication)