Genesis 1:26 is usually translated as 'In the beginning God made heaven and earth', but in fact the word 'Elohim' here translated as 'God' is plural. The passage properly reads 'In the beginning the gods made heaven and earth'. What is being referred to here are astronomical deities. The gods who 'let there be light' in Genesis are the Seven Great Spirits who work together as the great spiritual influence emanating from the sun. In the religions of the ancient world the Sun God - Elohim, the seven great spirits - made heaven and earth.
In the ancient world the Sun god was typically depicted emanating seven rays, as a mark of the seven sun spirits that make up his nature. In the Egyptian Book of Dead they are known as the Seven Spirits of Ra and in ancient Hebrew tradition as the Seven Powers of Light.
Later Genesis ceases to refer to Elohim and instead the word usually translated as 'God' is 'Jehovah'.
Biblical scholars working outside the esoteric tradition have tended to explain what appears to them as two different names for the same God as the result of two different literary strands, the Elohim strand and the Jehovah strand, probably dating from different periods and woven together by a later redactor.
However, scholars working within the esoteric tradition have a much simpler explanation. Elohim and Jehovah are not different names for the same entity but different entities as such.
Elohim is a collective name for the Seven Spirits working together as the god of the Sun.
Jehovah came into being, when one of the seven spirits of the sun (Elohim) broke away to become the God of the moon. This god of reflection came to defend the Earth from Venus.
To Hebrews the God of the Moon became known as Jehova and to the Muslims as Allah, the great god of thou-shalt-not (=Du sollst nicht...).
As Elohim - the seven spirits which are the Sun God - acted to hold Saturn/Satan in check, Jehova - the God of the Moon - directed operations to hold Venus/Luzifer in check. So began the era of the moon.
The first three epochs of the cosmos, the mineral, vegetable and animal eras - Saturn-day, Sun-day and Moon-day - are remembered in the names of the first three days of the week.
(Inspiration and extracts from Jonathan Black: The secret history of the world)
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Devil, Satan, Luzifer
One would assume that there is only one devil and that Satan and Lucifer are the same entity, but that is not the case.
Satan, the Dark Lord, the agent of materialism, is to be identified with the god of the planet Saturn.
Lucifer, the snake, the tempter who inflames humanity with animal desire equates to the goddess of Venus/Aphrodite.
Lucifer is evil, but he is a necessary evil, because without his intervention, proto-humanity would not have evolved beyond a vegetative form of life. Because of Lucifer, we are animated, both in terms of moving on the surface and are moved by desire. An animal has a conscious awareness of itself as a distinct entity that is denied to plants.
Another part of the ancient history tells that as Lucifer fell, a great emerald (Parcifal's stone) dropped from his forehead, which signals that humanity would increasingly suffer a loss of vision in the third eye, the brow chakra.
While the result of the influence of Satan is that life is often hard to bear, it is as a result of the influence of Lucifer/Venus that life is often hard to understand.
The influence of Venus brought a paradoxical, tricky quality into the heart of the universe. In other words, delusion (=Täuschung/Illusion) entered the world. Lucifer endowed matter with glamour that would dazzle humankind, and blind people to higher truths.
The Luziferic element is infused into our very physiology. Desire and delusion combine in us dangerously. Because of Luzifer's influence, the good that I should do, I do not, and the evil which I should not do, I do. Part of us always knows what is right, but that is often overruled by a part that is under Luzifer's control.
Because of Luzifer we do not always believe in proportion to the evidence. We often believe what we want to believe; see things, depending on how we choose to look at them; can be good-heartedly or narrow-minded.
(Inspiration and extracts from Jonathan Black: The secret history of the world)
Satan, the Dark Lord, the agent of materialism, is to be identified with the god of the planet Saturn.
Lucifer, the snake, the tempter who inflames humanity with animal desire equates to the goddess of Venus/Aphrodite.
Lucifer is evil, but he is a necessary evil, because without his intervention, proto-humanity would not have evolved beyond a vegetative form of life. Because of Lucifer, we are animated, both in terms of moving on the surface and are moved by desire. An animal has a conscious awareness of itself as a distinct entity that is denied to plants.
Another part of the ancient history tells that as Lucifer fell, a great emerald (Parcifal's stone) dropped from his forehead, which signals that humanity would increasingly suffer a loss of vision in the third eye, the brow chakra.
While the result of the influence of Satan is that life is often hard to bear, it is as a result of the influence of Lucifer/Venus that life is often hard to understand.
The influence of Venus brought a paradoxical, tricky quality into the heart of the universe. In other words, delusion (=Täuschung/Illusion) entered the world. Lucifer endowed matter with glamour that would dazzle humankind, and blind people to higher truths.
The Luziferic element is infused into our very physiology. Desire and delusion combine in us dangerously. Because of Luzifer's influence, the good that I should do, I do not, and the evil which I should not do, I do. Part of us always knows what is right, but that is often overruled by a part that is under Luzifer's control.
Because of Luzifer we do not always believe in proportion to the evidence. We often believe what we want to believe; see things, depending on how we choose to look at them; can be good-heartedly or narrow-minded.
(Inspiration and extracts from Jonathan Black: The secret history of the world)
The pituitary gland and the moon
In all ancient cultures the moon regultated not only fertility but also thought. The moon as god of reflection has the power to modify desire.
Human reflection is possible as the cosmos has arranged sun and moon in the sky so that the moon reflects the light of the sun down to earth.
There is a reproduction of this arrangement in a smaller scale inside our human head, where the pineal gland (=Zirbeldrüse/Pinealdrüse) represents the sun and the pituitary gland (=Hirnanhangsdrüse/Hypophyse) represents the moon.
The pituitary gland can modify and reflect on the visions that the pineal gland receives from the spirit worlds.
Modern science has confirmed, that the pituitary glands (=Hirnanhangsdrüse/Hypophyse) - like oysters - wax and wane with the moon.
(Inspiration and extracts from Jonathan Black: The secret history of the world)
Human reflection is possible as the cosmos has arranged sun and moon in the sky so that the moon reflects the light of the sun down to earth.
There is a reproduction of this arrangement in a smaller scale inside our human head, where the pineal gland (=Zirbeldrüse/Pinealdrüse) represents the sun and the pituitary gland (=Hirnanhangsdrüse/Hypophyse) represents the moon.
The pituitary gland can modify and reflect on the visions that the pineal gland receives from the spirit worlds.
Modern science has confirmed, that the pituitary glands (=Hirnanhangsdrüse/Hypophyse) - like oysters - wax and wane with the moon.
(Inspiration and extracts from Jonathan Black: The secret history of the world)
Friday, February 25, 2011
Why the moon is so important for us...
According to ancient believes the god of the moon was the god of reflection.
The moon is the great reflector in the sky and reflection is what distinguishes human beings from other animals.
Those of us who feel a deep connection with the moon might also reflect more deeply. Deep reflection leads to a deep understanding. A deep understanding allows to see the true reality (=absolute Wirklichkeit / wahre Existenz).
In true reality there is no separation. We are one.
The moon is the great reflector in the sky and reflection is what distinguishes human beings from other animals.
Those of us who feel a deep connection with the moon might also reflect more deeply. Deep reflection leads to a deep understanding. A deep understanding allows to see the true reality (=absolute Wirklichkeit / wahre Existenz).
In true reality there is no separation. We are one.
Ancient history of creation - Act 3: The animal era
From vegetable to animal life. The age of the moon.
In the past, matter had build the ground for vegetable life to be born and now the vegetable life formed a seed bed into which the seeds of animal life fell.
If the state of paradise, of Garden of Eden would have gone on for ever, humanity would have never evolved beyond the vegetable stage.
There was a momentous event: The sun god separated from mother earth and was shining from then on from the sky onto the surface of mother earth. As a result the earth cools, becomes denser, shrinks and the whole of its watery surface is covered by Adam, Eve and their flowery progeny.
Suddenly a giant snake (Luzifer), seemingly endless long appeared, millions of miles of it weaving its way into the cosmos. The snake coiled itself ever more tightly around Adam's vegetable trunk. The story of the serpent entwined around the tree contains the clearest possible image of the earth's transition from vegetable to animal life. The entwining of the snake and tree is a picture of the formation of the spine and central nervous system of animals. The whole earth began to seethe (=wimmeln) with primitive animal life.
This marked the moment from which on beings had to suffer, to strive and to die. The evolution of animal life and its characteristic method of reproduction (sex) brought death with it. As soon as hunger and desire were felt so were dissatisfaction, frustration, sorrow and fear.
Lucifer, the snake, the tempter who inflames humanity with animal desire equates to the goddess of Venus/Aphrodite.
Whilst it might seem counter-intuitive to equate the goddess of Venus/Aphrodite with Luzifer as Venus/Aphrodite is female and perceived as more life-enhancing, there are key points of similarity. Both Lucifer and Venus/Aphrodite are bound up with animal desire and sexuality. The apple is the fruit associated with both.
Any power human beings have to resist the animal desires - indeed what stops us from being a mere animal - derives from our capacity for thought and reflection.
Venus (Luzifer) was traditionally depicted as holding a mirror as a symbol of the power of reflection to modify desire. The god of reflection was the great reflector in the sky: The god of the moon.
(Inspiration and extracts from Jonathan Black: The secret history of the world)
In the past, matter had build the ground for vegetable life to be born and now the vegetable life formed a seed bed into which the seeds of animal life fell.
If the state of paradise, of Garden of Eden would have gone on for ever, humanity would have never evolved beyond the vegetable stage.
There was a momentous event: The sun god separated from mother earth and was shining from then on from the sky onto the surface of mother earth. As a result the earth cools, becomes denser, shrinks and the whole of its watery surface is covered by Adam, Eve and their flowery progeny.
Suddenly a giant snake (Luzifer), seemingly endless long appeared, millions of miles of it weaving its way into the cosmos. The snake coiled itself ever more tightly around Adam's vegetable trunk. The story of the serpent entwined around the tree contains the clearest possible image of the earth's transition from vegetable to animal life. The entwining of the snake and tree is a picture of the formation of the spine and central nervous system of animals. The whole earth began to seethe (=wimmeln) with primitive animal life.
This marked the moment from which on beings had to suffer, to strive and to die. The evolution of animal life and its characteristic method of reproduction (sex) brought death with it. As soon as hunger and desire were felt so were dissatisfaction, frustration, sorrow and fear.
Lucifer, the snake, the tempter who inflames humanity with animal desire equates to the goddess of Venus/Aphrodite.
Whilst it might seem counter-intuitive to equate the goddess of Venus/Aphrodite with Luzifer as Venus/Aphrodite is female and perceived as more life-enhancing, there are key points of similarity. Both Lucifer and Venus/Aphrodite are bound up with animal desire and sexuality. The apple is the fruit associated with both.
Any power human beings have to resist the animal desires - indeed what stops us from being a mere animal - derives from our capacity for thought and reflection.
Venus (Luzifer) was traditionally depicted as holding a mirror as a symbol of the power of reflection to modify desire. The god of reflection was the great reflector in the sky: The god of the moon.
(Inspiration and extracts from Jonathan Black: The secret history of the world)
Ancient history of creation - Act 2: The vegetable era
Transition from a purely mineral cosmos to a cosmos burgeoning with plant life. The age of the sun.
The Sun God arrives in order to rescue Mother Earth from Saturn. In the eye of imagination the Sun is a beautiful and radiant young man with a leonine mane. He rides a chariot and he is a musician. He has got many names - Krishna in India, Apollo in Greece.
The Sun arises in the midst of the storm, pushing back the darkness of Saturn until it becomes like a giant dragan or serpent encircling the cosmos.
The Sun then warms Mother Earth into new life. As he does so, he gives vent (=macht sich Luft) to a great, triumphal roar that reverberates to the outer limits of the cosmos. The roar causes matter in the cosmic womb to vibrate, to dance and form patterns. This process is sometimes known as 'the dance of the substance'. After a while it causes matter to coagulate. The sun is singing the world into existence. The victory of the Sun god indicates the momentous transition from a purely mineral cosmos to a cosmos with primitive form of pant life.
Time passed and the primitive plant life began to weave together more permanently. The vast vegetable being at the heart of the cosmos was Adam. Adam's body had first been very soft and amorphous, with a skin almost as delicate as the skin on a pond. But gradually it began to harden, warmed by the sun, and what would in time become bone, now became something closer to wax. As Adam solidified he also began to devide into two, which means he was a hermaphrodite who reproduced in an asexual way. This asexual reproduction was by a method called parthenogenesis, where a part of the plant falls off and grows into a new plant. By this plant-like method of reproduction Eva and other progeny were born out of Adams body. In a sense this is a continuation of the old plant which therefore somehow does not die.
As time went on, the plant forms became more complex, more like the plants of today. Because there was as yet no animal element to the cosmos, they were without desire and so without care or dissatisfaction. Needs were satisfied before they could even be felt. This was Paradise.
(Inspiration and extracts from Jonathan Black: The secret history of the world)
The Sun God arrives in order to rescue Mother Earth from Saturn. In the eye of imagination the Sun is a beautiful and radiant young man with a leonine mane. He rides a chariot and he is a musician. He has got many names - Krishna in India, Apollo in Greece.
The Sun arises in the midst of the storm, pushing back the darkness of Saturn until it becomes like a giant dragan or serpent encircling the cosmos.
The Sun then warms Mother Earth into new life. As he does so, he gives vent (=macht sich Luft) to a great, triumphal roar that reverberates to the outer limits of the cosmos. The roar causes matter in the cosmic womb to vibrate, to dance and form patterns. This process is sometimes known as 'the dance of the substance'. After a while it causes matter to coagulate. The sun is singing the world into existence. The victory of the Sun god indicates the momentous transition from a purely mineral cosmos to a cosmos with primitive form of pant life.
Time passed and the primitive plant life began to weave together more permanently. The vast vegetable being at the heart of the cosmos was Adam. Adam's body had first been very soft and amorphous, with a skin almost as delicate as the skin on a pond. But gradually it began to harden, warmed by the sun, and what would in time become bone, now became something closer to wax. As Adam solidified he also began to devide into two, which means he was a hermaphrodite who reproduced in an asexual way. This asexual reproduction was by a method called parthenogenesis, where a part of the plant falls off and grows into a new plant. By this plant-like method of reproduction Eva and other progeny were born out of Adams body. In a sense this is a continuation of the old plant which therefore somehow does not die.
As time went on, the plant forms became more complex, more like the plants of today. Because there was as yet no animal element to the cosmos, they were without desire and so without care or dissatisfaction. Needs were satisfied before they could even be felt. This was Paradise.
(Inspiration and extracts from Jonathan Black: The secret history of the world)
Ancient history of creation - Act 1: The mineral era
Move from state of nothingness to the existence of matter. The age of Saturn.
In the beginning there precipitated out of the void (=Leere) matter that was finer and more subtle than light. Then came an exceptionally fine gas. This gas or mist was the Mother of All Living. This Mother Goddess will metamorphose in the cause of history, but in the beginning Earth was without form.
History's first great reversal of luck was when Mother Goddess was attacked by a searing dry wind that almost extinguished the potential for life altogether. Through a physical eye it would have looked as if the gently interweaving mists were suddenly overtaken by a second emanation from the mind of God. Two titanic forces locked in combat at the beginning of our time.
Mother Goddess would often be remembered as a loving, life-giving and nurturing figure, comfortingly round and soft-looking, but she also had a terrifying aspect. She was warlike when needs be.
Her opponent was even more frightening. Long and bony the Dark Lord Saturn was armed with a deadly scythe (=Sense). (In Egyptian mythodology Saturn was Ptah.)
What Saturn's invention introduced into creation was the potential for individual objects to exist - and therefore the transition from formless into form. Because of Saturn there is a law of identity in the universe. Because of Saturn a certain object occupies a certain space at a certain time.
But if an individual entity can exist through time, then by implication it can cease to exist too. This is why Saturn is the god of destruction. Because of Saturn's influence everything that lives contains the seeds of its own end, and it is because of Saturn that what feeds us also destroys us. Because of Saturn our lives are hard. If we sometimes feel our lives almost too hard to bear, it is because Saturn pushes us to our limits.
Saturn's tyranny over Mother Earth, his murderous attempt to squeeze all potential for life out of the cosmos, continued over vast periods immeasurable to the human mind. Eventually his tyranny was overthrown, and Saturn, if not entirely defeated, was kept in check and confined to his proper sphere.
(Inspiration and extracts from Jonathan Black: The secret history of the world)
In the beginning there precipitated out of the void (=Leere) matter that was finer and more subtle than light. Then came an exceptionally fine gas. This gas or mist was the Mother of All Living. This Mother Goddess will metamorphose in the cause of history, but in the beginning Earth was without form.
History's first great reversal of luck was when Mother Goddess was attacked by a searing dry wind that almost extinguished the potential for life altogether. Through a physical eye it would have looked as if the gently interweaving mists were suddenly overtaken by a second emanation from the mind of God. Two titanic forces locked in combat at the beginning of our time.
Mother Goddess would often be remembered as a loving, life-giving and nurturing figure, comfortingly round and soft-looking, but she also had a terrifying aspect. She was warlike when needs be.
Her opponent was even more frightening. Long and bony the Dark Lord Saturn was armed with a deadly scythe (=Sense). (In Egyptian mythodology Saturn was Ptah.)
What Saturn's invention introduced into creation was the potential for individual objects to exist - and therefore the transition from formless into form. Because of Saturn there is a law of identity in the universe. Because of Saturn a certain object occupies a certain space at a certain time.
But if an individual entity can exist through time, then by implication it can cease to exist too. This is why Saturn is the god of destruction. Because of Saturn's influence everything that lives contains the seeds of its own end, and it is because of Saturn that what feeds us also destroys us. Because of Saturn our lives are hard. If we sometimes feel our lives almost too hard to bear, it is because Saturn pushes us to our limits.
Saturn's tyranny over Mother Earth, his murderous attempt to squeeze all potential for life out of the cosmos, continued over vast periods immeasurable to the human mind. Eventually his tyranny was overthrown, and Saturn, if not entirely defeated, was kept in check and confined to his proper sphere.
(Inspiration and extracts from Jonathan Black: The secret history of the world)
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Übervolle Tage
Das Übervollsein des Tages ist der völligen Leere gleichzusetzen.
(Rainer Maria Rilke)
(Rainer Maria Rilke)
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Informiert, klug, weise
Wer Dinge kennt, ist informiert.
Wer Menschen kennt, ist klug.
Wer sich kennt, ist weise.
(Josef Bordat)
Wer Menschen kennt, ist klug.
Wer sich kennt, ist weise.
(Josef Bordat)
Zu nah dran
Wenn du etwas nicht erkennen kannst, bist du vielleicht zu nah dran.
(Anke Maggauer-Kirsche)
(Anke Maggauer-Kirsche)
Im Brauchen bin ich abhängig
Wenn ich Nähe brauche, nehme ich dem andern etwas weg. Wenn ich sie genieße, dann fließt uns beiden etwas zu. Im Brauchen bin ich abhängig.
(Ute Lauterbach)
(Ute Lauterbach)
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Die Vollendung der Erkenntnis
So wie das »Ganze mehr ist, als die Summe seiner Teile«,
so ist das Durchleben die Vollendung der Erkenntnis!
(Thomas Lutter)
so ist das Durchleben die Vollendung der Erkenntnis!
(Thomas Lutter)
Das Risiko der Nähe
Es ist schwierig, einem Menschen nahe zu stehen, ohne ihm auf die Füsse zu treten.
(Daniel Mühlemann)
(Daniel Mühlemann)
Wie nah man sich ist
Wie nah dir ein Mensch wirklich ist mißt kein Navigations-System so zuverlässig wie dein Herz.
(KarlHeinz Karius)
(KarlHeinz Karius)
Mir war noch nie ein Mensch so nah...
Mir war noch nie ein Mensch so nah, der so weit für mich weg ist.
(Ingo Adler)
(Ingo Adler)
From Separateness to Oneness
The path from Separateness to Oneness is called Integration.
Der Weg von der Getrenntheit zur Einheit, vom Getrenntsein zum Einssein ist die Integration.
Der Weg von der Getrenntheit zur Einheit, vom Getrenntsein zum Einssein ist die Integration.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Nährboden für Glück
Bescheidenheit und Zuversicht sind ein idealer Nährboden für Glück.
(Wolfgang Lörzer)
(Wolfgang Lörzer)
Hart oder empfindsam
Wenn man vor die Wahl gestellt wird, ist es besser, zu empfindsam als zu hart zu sein.
(Friedrich der Große)
(Friedrich der Große)
Die Quelle des Friedens
Frieden strömt überall hin. Aber er hat nur eine Quelle: In unserer Mitte!
(Sigrun Hopfensperger)
(Sigrun Hopfensperger)
Abschied zum zu sich kommen
Wer nicht stets Abschied nimmt, ist noch nicht zu sich gekommen.
(Erhard Blanck)
(Erhard Blanck)
Friday, February 18, 2011
Optimist, Pessimist, Realist
Der Optimist glaubt an die Zukunft, der Pessimist sehnt sich nach der Vergangenheit, der Realist aber lebt in der Gegenwart.
(Wolfgang Kownatka)
(Wolfgang Kownatka)
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Reichtum durch Armut, Gewinnen durch Verlieren
Es könnte sein, dass die Menschheit reicher wird, indem sie ärmer wird, und gewinnt, indem sie verliert.
(Immanuel Kant)
(Immanuel Kant)
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Entzugserscheinungen
Entzugserscheinungen verschwinden am schnellsten,
wenn man beschließt, sie zu genießen.
(KarlHeinz Karius)
wenn man beschließt, sie zu genießen.
(KarlHeinz Karius)
Pineal Gland, Third Eye and Brow Chakra
The pineal gland (=Zirbeldrüse) is a small grey gland, the size of an almond, which is situated in the brain where the spinal cord reaches up into the brain. Anatomists discovered that the pineal gland is large in children and around puberty - when we naturally become less imaginative - the pineal gland begins a process of calcification and also shrinks.
The hormone Melatonin is mainly produced in the pineal gland, mostly at night. Melatonin is essential for the rhythm of waking and sleeping and the maintenance of the immune system. Melatonin causes us to have dreams and, in sufficient dosages, can also cause waking hallucinations. Research has shown that the right meditation on the pineal glant causes it to release a rush of melatonin.
In esoteric physiology our pineal gland begins to vibrate when we have a hunch (=Vorahnung). The ancients knew how to manipulate the pineal gland to achieve altered states. They saw the pineal gland as an organ of perception of higher worlds, a window opening on to the brightness and wonder of the spiritual hierachies. This window could be opened systematically by meditation and other secret practices which gave rise to visions.
If spiritual disciplines are used to increase and prolong this vibration of the pineal gland, it may lead to the opening of the Third Eye. The Third Eye is situated in the middle of the brow. The Egyptians clearly depicted it as a uraeus snake and in Indian literature it is shown as the Third Eye of Enlightenment, or the Eye of Siva.
The brow chakra is sometimes called the Third Eye.
The hormone Melatonin is mainly produced in the pineal gland, mostly at night. Melatonin is essential for the rhythm of waking and sleeping and the maintenance of the immune system. Melatonin causes us to have dreams and, in sufficient dosages, can also cause waking hallucinations. Research has shown that the right meditation on the pineal glant causes it to release a rush of melatonin.
In esoteric physiology our pineal gland begins to vibrate when we have a hunch (=Vorahnung). The ancients knew how to manipulate the pineal gland to achieve altered states. They saw the pineal gland as an organ of perception of higher worlds, a window opening on to the brightness and wonder of the spiritual hierachies. This window could be opened systematically by meditation and other secret practices which gave rise to visions.
If spiritual disciplines are used to increase and prolong this vibration of the pineal gland, it may lead to the opening of the Third Eye. The Third Eye is situated in the middle of the brow. The Egyptians clearly depicted it as a uraeus snake and in Indian literature it is shown as the Third Eye of Enlightenment, or the Eye of Siva.
The brow chakra is sometimes called the Third Eye.
Vegetable elements in human being
What eventually evolved into human life passed through the vegetable stage and the vegetable element remains an essential part of the human being today.
If you remove the sympathetic nervous system (=Symphaticus oder Sympathisches Nervensystem, Teil des Vegetativen Nervensystems) from the body and stood it up on its own, it would look like a tree. "The sympathetic nervous system is the gift of the vegetable kingdom to the physical body of man."
Subtle energies flow round this vegetable part of the body. The Chinese call this energy flow "Chi" and disease arises when the delicate network of energies becomes blocked. The chakras operate as its organs of perception. The great centre of the vegetable component of the human body, feeding on the waves of light and warmth radiating from the sun, is the chakra of the solar plexus.
The organs of the vegetable body - the chakras - are made up of different numbers of petals (=Blütenblätter). The solar plexus chakra, for example, having ten petals and the brow chakra having two petals. The seven major chakras are situated at the groin, solar plexus, kidneys, heart, throat, brow and crown. The brow chakra is sometimes also called the Third Eye.
The enlivening of the seven chakras will result in the great visions of the spiritual world.
If you remove the sympathetic nervous system (=Symphaticus oder Sympathisches Nervensystem, Teil des Vegetativen Nervensystems) from the body and stood it up on its own, it would look like a tree. "The sympathetic nervous system is the gift of the vegetable kingdom to the physical body of man."
Subtle energies flow round this vegetable part of the body. The Chinese call this energy flow "Chi" and disease arises when the delicate network of energies becomes blocked. The chakras operate as its organs of perception. The great centre of the vegetable component of the human body, feeding on the waves of light and warmth radiating from the sun, is the chakra of the solar plexus.
The organs of the vegetable body - the chakras - are made up of different numbers of petals (=Blütenblätter). The solar plexus chakra, for example, having ten petals and the brow chakra having two petals. The seven major chakras are situated at the groin, solar plexus, kidneys, heart, throat, brow and crown. The brow chakra is sometimes also called the Third Eye.
The enlivening of the seven chakras will result in the great visions of the spiritual world.
Monday, February 14, 2011
More Fun / Mehr Spass
Sex is more fun than logics, but I can't prove it.
Sex macht mehr Spass als Logik, aber das kann ich nicht beweisen.
Sex macht mehr Spass als Logik, aber das kann ich nicht beweisen.
Schrödinger's cat - a thought experiment
The thought experiment went like this: A cat is placed in a room that is separated from the outside world. A Geiger counter and a little bit of a radioactive element are in the room. Within some time, say one hour, one of the atoms of the radioactive material may decay (or break down, this is because the material is not stable), or it may not. The Geiger counter can measure that. If the material breaks down, it will release poisonous gas, which will kill the cat.
The question now is: at the end of the hour, is the cat alive or dead?
Schrödinger says that as long as the door is closed, the cat could be dead or alive. There is no way to know until the door is opened.
The problem is in that by opening the room, the person is interfering with the experiment. The person and the experiment have to be described with reference to each other. By looking at the experiment the person has influenced the experiment. A famous physics theory (the Copenhagen interpretation) said that the cat was both dead and alive until its observation proved it to be one or the other (Superposition).
The cat situation was first proposed by Schrödinger to actually demonstrate the foolishness of thinking about quantum states at macro levels. It has also been referenced many times in pop culture.
The question now is: at the end of the hour, is the cat alive or dead?
Schrödinger says that as long as the door is closed, the cat could be dead or alive. There is no way to know until the door is opened.
The problem is in that by opening the room, the person is interfering with the experiment. The person and the experiment have to be described with reference to each other. By looking at the experiment the person has influenced the experiment. A famous physics theory (the Copenhagen interpretation) said that the cat was both dead and alive until its observation proved it to be one or the other (Superposition).
The cat situation was first proposed by Schrödinger to actually demonstrate the foolishness of thinking about quantum states at macro levels. It has also been referenced many times in pop culture.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Woran wir denken
Wir denken selten
bei dem Licht an Finsternis,
beim Glück ans Elend,
bei der Zufriedenheit an Schmerz,
aber umgekehrt jederzeit.
(Immanuel Kant)
bei dem Licht an Finsternis,
beim Glück ans Elend,
bei der Zufriedenheit an Schmerz,
aber umgekehrt jederzeit.
(Immanuel Kant)
The two levels of WHY
When we ask WHY, it can be taken in two ways: Either meaning the same as HOW, that is to get an account of cause and effect, of atom knocking against atom answer, or to understand the underlying INTENTION.
Auf das Leben zurückblicken
Was kann, wenn man nahe daran ist, diese Welt zu verlassen, tröstender sein als zu sehen, dass man einige, wenngleich nur wenige, zu guten Menschen gebildet hat.
(Immanuel Kant)
(Immanuel Kant)
What did happen before time?
God reflected on Himself. He looked into an imaginary mirrow and saw the future. He imagined beings very like Himself. He imagined free, creative beings capable of loving so intelligently and thinking so lovingly that they could transform themselves and others of their kind in their innermost being. They could expand their minds to embrace the totality of the cosmos, and in the depths of their hearts they could also perceive the secrets of its finest workings.
This is exactly what God did. His reflections - humans - gradually and in stages, forming and achieving independent life, nurtured by Him, guided and prompted by Him over very long periods.
God made the universe with humankind in his mind, an anthropocentric universe, allowing them to learn, make their experience, grow, walk their ways.
The universe has nurtured us, helped human consciousness to evolve and guided each of us as individuals towards the great moments in our lives.
(Inspiration and extracts from Jonathan Black: The secret history of the world)
This is exactly what God did. His reflections - humans - gradually and in stages, forming and achieving independent life, nurtured by Him, guided and prompted by Him over very long periods.
God made the universe with humankind in his mind, an anthropocentric universe, allowing them to learn, make their experience, grow, walk their ways.
The universe has nurtured us, helped human consciousness to evolve and guided each of us as individuals towards the great moments in our lives.
(Inspiration and extracts from Jonathan Black: The secret history of the world)
In the beginning there was no time
Time is nothing but a measure of the changing positions of objects in space. A year is a measure of the movement of the earth round the sun. A day is the revolving of the earth on its axis.
As any scientist, mystic or other person knows, in the beginning there were no objects in space. Hence, in the beginning, there was no time.
Despite the initial absence of matter, space and time, something must have happened to get everything started, something must have happened before there was anything.
Since there was no-thing when something first happened, it might make sense to say that this first happening was more like a mental event than a physical event.
(from Jonathan Black, The secret history of the world, Chapter 1)
As any scientist, mystic or other person knows, in the beginning there were no objects in space. Hence, in the beginning, there was no time.
Despite the initial absence of matter, space and time, something must have happened to get everything started, something must have happened before there was anything.
Since there was no-thing when something first happened, it might make sense to say that this first happening was more like a mental event than a physical event.
(from Jonathan Black, The secret history of the world, Chapter 1)
Saturday, February 12, 2011
The Ancient World
For a person in the ancient world the wood around him and everything in it was alive. Such person felt one with the cosmos. Everything that happened to him was meant to happen. Everything spoke to him. Everthing was a punishment, a reward, a warning or a premonition (=Vorahnung).
The ancients believed in a quite literal way, that nothing inside us is without correspondence in nature. If you looked down on to the internal organs of a human body, their disposition reflected the solar system. In the view of the ancients, all biology is astrobiology.
Science has coined the word "biorhythms" to describe the way the relationships of the earth with the moon and the sun, marked by the sequence of seasons and day following night, is built biochemically deep into the function of every living being.
This sense of interconnectedness was not just a bodily interconnectedness. It extended to consciousness too. The ancient man commonly experienced great spirits thinking through himself and through other people at the same time.
Today we tend to be very proprietorial about our thoughts. We want to take credit for originating them, and we like to think that our private mental space is inviolate, that no other consciousness can intrude into it.
Anyhow, the reality of our everyday experience is that thoughts are quite routinely introduced into what we like to think of as our private mental space from somewhere else: "Thoughts just come to us". The ancients understood this "somewhere else" as being some-one else, the someone being a god, an angel or a spirit.
While today we like to think of ourselves as each having one individual centre of consciousness located inside the head, in the ancient world each person experienced him or herself as having several different centres of consciousness originating outside the head.
The ancients did not worship the sun because they believed the physical object would be a sentient (=fühlendes) being, but because they saw the sun as a sort of lens through which the spiritual influence of a god rayed from the spiritual realm into the earthly realm. Other gods rayed their influences through the other planets and constellations. As the positions of the heavenly bodies changed, so the various patterns of influence give history direction and shape.
The ancient mystery schools also taught, that we not only have a head-consciousness, but also, for example, a heart-consciousness, meaning the heart is the portal through which Sun God enters our life. Likewise a kind of kidney-consciousness beams into us from Venus, spreading out into our mind and body via the portal of our own kidneys. Similar relationships exist for Mercury/Lungs, Jupiter/Liver, Mars/Gall and Saturn/Spleen(=Milz).
The working together of these different centres of consciousness makes us variously loving, angry, melancholy, restless, brave, thoughtful and so on, forming the unique thing that is human experience.
Working through the different centres of consciousness in this way, the gods of the planets and constellations prepare us for the great experiences, the great tests that the cosmos means us to have.
(from Jonathan Black: The secret history of the world, Chapter 2)
The ancients believed in a quite literal way, that nothing inside us is without correspondence in nature. If you looked down on to the internal organs of a human body, their disposition reflected the solar system. In the view of the ancients, all biology is astrobiology.
Science has coined the word "biorhythms" to describe the way the relationships of the earth with the moon and the sun, marked by the sequence of seasons and day following night, is built biochemically deep into the function of every living being.
This sense of interconnectedness was not just a bodily interconnectedness. It extended to consciousness too. The ancient man commonly experienced great spirits thinking through himself and through other people at the same time.
Today we tend to be very proprietorial about our thoughts. We want to take credit for originating them, and we like to think that our private mental space is inviolate, that no other consciousness can intrude into it.
Anyhow, the reality of our everyday experience is that thoughts are quite routinely introduced into what we like to think of as our private mental space from somewhere else: "Thoughts just come to us". The ancients understood this "somewhere else" as being some-one else, the someone being a god, an angel or a spirit.
While today we like to think of ourselves as each having one individual centre of consciousness located inside the head, in the ancient world each person experienced him or herself as having several different centres of consciousness originating outside the head.
The ancients did not worship the sun because they believed the physical object would be a sentient (=fühlendes) being, but because they saw the sun as a sort of lens through which the spiritual influence of a god rayed from the spiritual realm into the earthly realm. Other gods rayed their influences through the other planets and constellations. As the positions of the heavenly bodies changed, so the various patterns of influence give history direction and shape.
The ancient mystery schools also taught, that we not only have a head-consciousness, but also, for example, a heart-consciousness, meaning the heart is the portal through which Sun God enters our life. Likewise a kind of kidney-consciousness beams into us from Venus, spreading out into our mind and body via the portal of our own kidneys. Similar relationships exist for Mercury/Lungs, Jupiter/Liver, Mars/Gall and Saturn/Spleen(=Milz).
The working together of these different centres of consciousness makes us variously loving, angry, melancholy, restless, brave, thoughtful and so on, forming the unique thing that is human experience.
Working through the different centres of consciousness in this way, the gods of the planets and constellations prepare us for the great experiences, the great tests that the cosmos means us to have.
(from Jonathan Black: The secret history of the world, Chapter 2)
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Bye Bye Baby... I will always love you
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
In gleichem Maße lieben
Haben wir nicht alle schon einmal unsere Kinder verzweifelt klagen hören: "Aber Du hast ihn/sie viel lieber als mich"
Was ist unsere Reaktion auf eine solche Aussage?
Haben wir nicht alle das kindliche Bedürfnis geliebt zu werden?
Wollen wir nicht alle immer "am meisten" geliebt werden?
Aber wie genau soll das subjektive Gefühl der Liebe denn "objektiv" gemessen werden?
Wo ist das Messinstrument (z.B. "Liebes-Tacho", "Liebes-Barometer" oder vgl.) dass mißt, in "welchem Maße" wir lieben?
Wie können wir sicherstellen, dass die von Hesse (neben der Treue zu sich selbst) als Wichtigstes im Leben bezeichnete liebevolle Güte zu Anderen im "gleichen Maße" erfolgt?
Kann man überhaupt mehrere Personen "im gleichen Maße" lieben?
Ist es nicht genau dieser Weg den wir alle - teils bewusst, teils unbewusst - beschreiten, der uns aus der Verblendung zum Erwachen, zum Erkennen der wahren Existenz führt?
Ist nicht letztlich alles Eins?
Ist die subjektiv empfundene Liebe zwischen einzelnen "Individuen" nicht einfach nur der Versuch des Universums, uns einen kleinen Vorgeschmack davon zu vermitteln, was die eigentlich wahre Existenz ist?
Was ist unsere Reaktion auf eine solche Aussage?
Haben wir nicht alle das kindliche Bedürfnis geliebt zu werden?
Wollen wir nicht alle immer "am meisten" geliebt werden?
Aber wie genau soll das subjektive Gefühl der Liebe denn "objektiv" gemessen werden?
Wo ist das Messinstrument (z.B. "Liebes-Tacho", "Liebes-Barometer" oder vgl.) dass mißt, in "welchem Maße" wir lieben?
Wie können wir sicherstellen, dass die von Hesse (neben der Treue zu sich selbst) als Wichtigstes im Leben bezeichnete liebevolle Güte zu Anderen im "gleichen Maße" erfolgt?
Kann man überhaupt mehrere Personen "im gleichen Maße" lieben?
- Kannst Du es?
- Kann ich es?
- Kann der Dalai Lama es?
- Kann Buddha es?
- Kann Gott es?
Ist es nicht genau dieser Weg den wir alle - teils bewusst, teils unbewusst - beschreiten, der uns aus der Verblendung zum Erwachen, zum Erkennen der wahren Existenz führt?
Ist nicht letztlich alles Eins?
Ist die subjektiv empfundene Liebe zwischen einzelnen "Individuen" nicht einfach nur der Versuch des Universums, uns einen kleinen Vorgeschmack davon zu vermitteln, was die eigentlich wahre Existenz ist?
Sind wir nicht einfach noch gefangen in unseren alten, kindlichen Wahrnehmungen, noch immer Opfer der Verblendung - aber dennoch mit berechtigter Hoffnung auf Erleuchtung?
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Reich sein
Reich ist man nicht durch das, was man besitzt, sondern mehr noch durch das, was man mit Würde zu entbehren weiß.
(Immanuel Kant)
(Immanuel Kant)
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Balanced degree of memory
To form our basic sense of self and consciousness we need to have a fine balanced degree of memory.
"Memory has to be strong enough to enable us to act without forgetting what we wanted to do, to learn without ceasing to be the same person, but it also has to be weak enough to allow us to keep moving into the future."
(Italo Calvino)
"Memory has to be strong enough to enable us to act without forgetting what we wanted to do, to learn without ceasing to be the same person, but it also has to be weak enough to allow us to keep moving into the future."
(Italo Calvino)
Physics and Metaphysics
The key difference between physics and metaphysics is that they are explaining different things. Modern science explains how the universe comes to be as it is, whilst the ancient philosophy explains how our experience of the universe comes to be as it is. For science the great miracle to be explained is the physical universe. For esoteric philosophy the greater miracle is human consciousness.
(Jonathan Black)
(Jonathan Black)
Erkenntnis
Wir beiden sind eine erkennende Seele in zwei Körpern, die - gemäß Rudolf Steiners Anthroposophie - gerade dabei ist, die Kraft zu entwickeln, um ein Eindringen in die übersinnliche Welt und damit Nirwana als wahre Existenz der Dinge zu ermöglichen.
Anthroposophie nach Rudolf Steiner
„Während nun dasjenige, was der Mensch durch seine Sinne und durch den an die Sinnesbeobachtung sich haltenden Verstand über die Welt wissen kann, ‚Anthropologie‘ genannt werden kann, so soll dasjenige, was der innere Mensch, der Geistesmensch wissen kann, ‚Anthroposophie‘ genannt werden. Anthroposophie ist also Wissen des Geistesmenschen; und es erstreckt sich dieses Wissen nicht bloß über den Menschen, sondern es ist ein Wissen von allem, was in der geistigen Welt der Geistesmensch so wahrnehmen kann."
„Unter Anthroposophie verstehe ich eine wissenschaftliche Erforschung der geistigen Welt, welche die Einseitigkeiten einer bloßen Natur-Erkenntnis ebenso wie diejenigen der gewöhnlichen Mystik durchschaut und die, bevor sie den Versuch macht, in die übersinnliche Welt einzudringen, in der erkennenden Seele erst die im gewöhnlichen Bewusstsein und in der gewöhnlichen Wissenschaft noch nicht tätigen Kräfte entwickelt, welche ein solches Eindringen ermöglichen.“
(Rudolf Steiner, Begründer der Anthroposophie)
Nach Steiner befindet sich der Mensch (und die gesamte, also auch die geistige Welt) in beständiger Entwicklung (Evolution). Das Ziel des anthroposophischen Schulungsweges sei es, durch Meditation, Selbsterziehung und Beobachtung auf einer lebenslangen „Suche“, höhere Bewusstseinsebenen zu erreichen. Dieser Schulungsweg sei individuell auszugestalten und könne von jedem Menschen beschritten werden.
„Unter Anthroposophie verstehe ich eine wissenschaftliche Erforschung der geistigen Welt, welche die Einseitigkeiten einer bloßen Natur-Erkenntnis ebenso wie diejenigen der gewöhnlichen Mystik durchschaut und die, bevor sie den Versuch macht, in die übersinnliche Welt einzudringen, in der erkennenden Seele erst die im gewöhnlichen Bewusstsein und in der gewöhnlichen Wissenschaft noch nicht tätigen Kräfte entwickelt, welche ein solches Eindringen ermöglichen.“
(Rudolf Steiner, Begründer der Anthroposophie)
Nach Steiner befindet sich der Mensch (und die gesamte, also auch die geistige Welt) in beständiger Entwicklung (Evolution). Das Ziel des anthroposophischen Schulungsweges sei es, durch Meditation, Selbsterziehung und Beobachtung auf einer lebenslangen „Suche“, höhere Bewusstseinsebenen zu erreichen. Dieser Schulungsweg sei individuell auszugestalten und könne von jedem Menschen beschritten werden.
Matter is precipitated by a cosmic mind
"Any piece of flotsam or jetsam within our grasp should be considered as a precipitate of our desire."
"Jedes Stück Ballast und Treibgut in unserer Auffassungsgabe sollte als eine Ausfällung unserer Begierde betrachtet werden."
(Andre Breton)
Mental events generate physical events
This precipitation of matter can be regarded as a series of thoughts emanating from a cosmic mind. Pure mind to begin with, these thought-emanations later became a sort of proto-matter, energy that became increasingly dense, then became matter so etheral that it was finer than gas, without particles of any kind. Eventually the emanations became gas, then liquid and finally solids.
It is comparable with crystals precipitating (=chem. Ausfällung) in the bottom of a solution, as if an impulse were squeezing them out from one dimension to the next. The birth of our universe, the mysterious transition from no-matter to matter can be explained in that way.
"Jedes Stück Ballast und Treibgut in unserer Auffassungsgabe sollte als eine Ausfällung unserer Begierde betrachtet werden."
(Andre Breton)
Mental events generate physical events
This precipitation of matter can be regarded as a series of thoughts emanating from a cosmic mind. Pure mind to begin with, these thought-emanations later became a sort of proto-matter, energy that became increasingly dense, then became matter so etheral that it was finer than gas, without particles of any kind. Eventually the emanations became gas, then liquid and finally solids.
It is comparable with crystals precipitating (=chem. Ausfällung) in the bottom of a solution, as if an impulse were squeezing them out from one dimension to the next. The birth of our universe, the mysterious transition from no-matter to matter can be explained in that way.
The deepest springs of the physical world
The deepest springs of our mental life are also the deepest springs of the physical world, because in the "mind preceded matter" worldview all chemistry is psycho-chemistry. The ways in which the physical content of the uiverse responds to the human psyche are described by deeper and more powerful laws than the laws of material science.
We can influence reality with our own minds
We are familiar with the fact, that our emotional states affect our own bodies and that deep-seated emotions can cause long-term deep-seated changes (either to heal or to harm), which are known as psychosomatic effects.
If we now expand this fact of psychosomatic effects by taking into account that there is no real separation, that everything is interdependent, that everything is One, we see that our "own" emotional states therefore directly affect the mind of "others".
Exploring this path even further by applying the "mind-before-matter" worldview, we'll find that our emotional stages directly affect matter outside our bodies. In this psychosomatic universe is the behaviour of physical objects in space directly affected by mental states. In other words: Our mind can influence matter.
At the same time, matter is seen as the foundation of what is recognised as "reality" by the vast majority of todays society.
This would lead to the following conclusion:
If our mind can influence matter and matter is the foundation of todays perceived reality, then we can influence reality with our own mind.
If we now expand this fact of psychosomatic effects by taking into account that there is no real separation, that everything is interdependent, that everything is One, we see that our "own" emotional states therefore directly affect the mind of "others".
Exploring this path even further by applying the "mind-before-matter" worldview, we'll find that our emotional stages directly affect matter outside our bodies. In this psychosomatic universe is the behaviour of physical objects in space directly affected by mental states. In other words: Our mind can influence matter.
At the same time, matter is seen as the foundation of what is recognised as "reality" by the vast majority of todays society.
This would lead to the following conclusion:
If our mind can influence matter and matter is the foundation of todays perceived reality, then we can influence reality with our own mind.
Friday, February 4, 2011
Bending the laws of probability
In strict laboratory conditions a coin flipped many times will still land 50% of the cases heads up and 50% tails up in line with the laws of probability. But the laws of probabikity only apply, when all living subjectivity has been deliberately excluded. This means, when human happiness and hopes for self-fulfillment depend on the outcome of the roll of the dice, then the laws of probability are bent and deeper laws come into play.
The "mind preceded matter" worldview
In the predominant thinking of todays scientific world matter came before mind, regarding mind almost as an accident of matter or in best case an offspring evolved out of matter, but inessential and unimportant compared to matter.
On the other hand in a mind-before-matter belief the connection between mind and matter would be much more intimate. It is a living, dynamic connection. Not only did matter emerge from a cosmic mind, but it was even created in order to provide the conditions in which the human mind would be possible. Everything in the universe is alive and conscious to some degree, responding sensitively and intelligently to our deepest, sublest needs.
On the other hand in a mind-before-matter belief the connection between mind and matter would be much more intimate. It is a living, dynamic connection. Not only did matter emerge from a cosmic mind, but it was even created in order to provide the conditions in which the human mind would be possible. Everything in the universe is alive and conscious to some degree, responding sensitively and intelligently to our deepest, sublest needs.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Das Wohl der Menschheit
Jeder von uns muß lernen, für das Wohl der Menschheit einzustehen.
(Dalai Lama)
(Dalai Lama)
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Schicksal erleiden oder gestalten
Der Ziellose erleidet sein Schicksal, der Zielbewusste gestaltet es.
(Immanuel Kant)
(Immanuel Kant)
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