Spiritual Journal, 1/23/02
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novapsyche6:46 a.m.
The thought occurs to me to change the name of my movement to Children of the New Light, which does not sound so pagan and would more accurately reflect the countless myriad religions and spiritualities that the spirituality affirms, supports, and encourages. [It would also point more definitively toward the gnostic, "inner light", almost neo-Quaker meditative aspects of the practical spiritual work I propose.] My question is: Is such a change "selling out" in a way, a form of packaging my spirituality ideas in a more palatable fashion? (My inner critic says yes. Initially, anyway. The rational part of my brain will need to produce some valuable results if I am to change my mind.)
Because changing the name would be bastardizing the source of the phrase itself. I chose that name [Children of the New Sun] because, when I heard it in Dave's monologue in 2010, I knew it was one of tremendous import.
Tonight, I very briefly used marijuana to contact the true Breath of Life, true prana. Blade was right: I was naive to believe, when I first started smoking, that marijuana smoke itself was the Breath of Life. I was no metaphysician then. I was a young, enthusiastic marijuana smoker. Now, however, I see pot more as a bridge to that true prana, while having healing qualities in and of itself (that is, in the plant material).
I used it to more easily sense--feel--breath moving in and out of my body. It enabled me to more readily concentrate on my breathing, physically. By doing so, I felt myself almost instantly go into a trance. (My experience was not a "falling into" a trance; it was more aligning myself to a higher vibration.)
To be utterly fair, I may have enjoyed a synergistic combination of 5-HTP and marijuana. I've not come across any written accounts of experiences combining the two.
Oh, my breath rate naturally dropped as well. I was able to achieve low breathing with little to no conscious attention and subtle manipulation.
So, I was also tonight thinking of life energy as gyroscopic. The most energy efficient configuration is the gyroscope. Isn't the atom gyroscopic (with its electrons encircling)? Isn't our solar system as well? Everything in our solar system bends to the will of the Sun. We think we are free beings, but even in a politically free society, all people would still be in the thrall of the force of the sun. We are subject to celestial events and influences [for example, sunspots]. We cannot escape them. We are at this moment migrating in space, following the sun, as well as spinning slowly along our own planetary axis. Yet we sense none of this; we are oblivious to the forces that truly govern our lives. We swim within and among these forces, yet usually are completely unconscous of them.
Anyway. Gyroscopes. I think of the spirit force inside a person as a gyroscopic field of sorts, one that experientially produces a center of gravity.
(I want to develop this idea further.)
I am humbled by the thought that none of my material self is the same as it was seven years ago (again, that sacred number makes itself known), as well as by the thought that there are particles in the universe that pervade all things, including my material body. (Hadrons, I believe?) Those two truths are enough to make the mind boggle. They also make one very reverent and humble before the vastness and ubiquitousness of the universe.
The thought occurs to me to change the name of my movement to Children of the New Light, which does not sound so pagan and would more accurately reflect the countless myriad religions and spiritualities that the spirituality affirms, supports, and encourages. [It would also point more definitively toward the gnostic, "inner light", almost neo-Quaker meditative aspects of the practical spiritual work I propose.] My question is: Is such a change "selling out" in a way, a form of packaging my spirituality ideas in a more palatable fashion? (My inner critic says yes. Initially, anyway. The rational part of my brain will need to produce some valuable results if I am to change my mind.)
Because changing the name would be bastardizing the source of the phrase itself. I chose that name [Children of the New Sun] because, when I heard it in Dave's monologue in 2010, I knew it was one of tremendous import.
Tonight, I very briefly used marijuana to contact the true Breath of Life, true prana. Blade was right: I was naive to believe, when I first started smoking, that marijuana smoke itself was the Breath of Life. I was no metaphysician then. I was a young, enthusiastic marijuana smoker. Now, however, I see pot more as a bridge to that true prana, while having healing qualities in and of itself (that is, in the plant material).
I used it to more easily sense--feel--breath moving in and out of my body. It enabled me to more readily concentrate on my breathing, physically. By doing so, I felt myself almost instantly go into a trance. (My experience was not a "falling into" a trance; it was more aligning myself to a higher vibration.)
To be utterly fair, I may have enjoyed a synergistic combination of 5-HTP and marijuana. I've not come across any written accounts of experiences combining the two.
Oh, my breath rate naturally dropped as well. I was able to achieve low breathing with little to no conscious attention and subtle manipulation.
So, I was also tonight thinking of life energy as gyroscopic. The most energy efficient configuration is the gyroscope. Isn't the atom gyroscopic (with its electrons encircling)? Isn't our solar system as well? Everything in our solar system bends to the will of the Sun. We think we are free beings, but even in a politically free society, all people would still be in the thrall of the force of the sun. We are subject to celestial events and influences [for example, sunspots]. We cannot escape them. We are at this moment migrating in space, following the sun, as well as spinning slowly along our own planetary axis. Yet we sense none of this; we are oblivious to the forces that truly govern our lives. We swim within and among these forces, yet usually are completely unconscous of them.
Anyway. Gyroscopes. I think of the spirit force inside a person as a gyroscopic field of sorts, one that experientially produces a center of gravity.
(I want to develop this idea further.)
I am humbled by the thought that none of my material self is the same as it was seven years ago (again, that sacred number makes itself known), as well as by the thought that there are particles in the universe that pervade all things, including my material body. (Hadrons, I believe?) Those two truths are enough to make the mind boggle. They also make one very reverent and humble before the vastness and ubiquitousness of the universe.
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a name change
Date: 2002-01-27 12:26 pm (UTC)BTW our bodies do not change completely every seven years. if they did people's tattoos would disappear because the cells of their skins which have the ink them would not exist any more.
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Date: 2004-11-08 12:55 pm (UTC)I thought it was a pretty neat insight for a couple of 19-year-olds. ;)