Duet: Czeslaw Milosz & Hazrat Inayat Khan (I do believe both are tenors)

Dependence belongs to matter

and independence to spirit.

The independent spirit becomes dependent through manifestation.

When the One becomes many, then each part of the One,

being limited, strives to be helped

by the other part,

for each part finds itself

imperfect.

Therefore we human beings,

however rich

with the treasures of heaven and earth,

are poor in reality because

of our dependence upon others. 

The spiritual view makes one conscious

of this fact, but the material view

blinds man, who then show independence

and indifference to his fellow man.

Pride, conceit and vanity

are the outcome of this ignorance.

There are moments when even the king has to depend

upon a most insignificant person.

. . . . .

As individuals depend upon other individuals,

so nations and races depend upon

one another.  

No individual can say that he can geet on without anyone else,

and no nation can be really happy

while another nation is unhappy.

But both individuals and communities depend most

upon God, in whom we all unite.

(Hazrat Inayat Kahn The Unity of Religious Ideals)

a pinch of the imperfect (an imperfect channelling)

*

"If the entire human species were a single individual, that person would long ago have been declared mad. The insanity would not lie in the anger and darkness of the human mind—though it can be a black and raging place indeed. And it certainly wouldn't lie in the transcendent goodness of that mind—one so sublime, we fold it into a larger "soul." The madness would lie instead in the fact that both of those qualities, the savage and the splendid, can exist in one creature, one person, often in one instant."  (Jeffrey Kugler, "What Makes Us Moral?" Time Magazine 3 March 2007)

This is a difficult concept to grasp,

that we are two in one,

we, the human occupying the human 

body

are two in one --

we each contain the 

ability

to be good

to be bad

all at the same time,

we 

all

are 

two, and the two we contain

are the imitation 

of the part of God

that became manifest

as the moment of the splitting,

the splitting being

the physical act God

had to produce

             in order

to be able to reproduce

Himself.

God had to split

in half, into

the negative and the positive,

in order to see:

                 the positive

                       is what She saw,

the glorious, succulent

material present

( ishs.org )

that is what God saw:

the visual, the 

aural, the

tactile,

the

sensual, the

aromatic,

all that IS

is what God saw:

all that IS

is good is bad

is what God saw

 ( howstuffworks )

So . . . . .  .

 

if God saw the all that he created,

and it was good,

what in heaven's name was doing the seeing?

WHAT saw it all,

and WHAT was glad?

 

What did the seeing was always that

which could not be seen,

the negative,

the negative -

the negative !

the other side of the 

dichotomy,

in Derridean terms:

MALE                     FEMALE

positive                  negative

light                    dark

day                       night

spoken                           silent

visible                        invisible

 

 We live in the realm of the visible,

of the male,

but it was our opposite -

that was there

but not there

to view the creation

and to be amazed by it.

( wikipedia: michelangelo )

Ever since the onset of the Renaissance

(when Makropoulos was 

born,

by the way)

that glorious time

when the mind had evolved to a more mature

level of being able to reproduce

itself,

ever since then, 

the trend 

has been to focus

on the male:

the physical manifestion

that god produced in order to be able

to see Herself --

and hey

wouldn't you want to fixate

on that for awhile?

wouldn't you want to fixate on that

fabulous something

that you created

in order to see

yourself?

Imagine it:

here you are, 

you are invisible and

undivisable,

and you just created

something visibly 

you,

you gave yourself 

the opportunity to see

yourself

in the mirror

wouldn't you want

to look at it

for a thousand years

or so?

Wouldn't you want to see it,

just turn it over and over

in your hands

and adore it?

( geekology )

It would be

your perfect opposite,

your mythic soulmate:

there you'd be

and you would be so amazed

at the beauty of it,

you would gaze into it,

get lost in it.

(Mirrors have been the replacement for

the absence of the Others;

they've been here to keep us

company, and to let us know

what we look like, so

when we see our other halves,

we'll recognize them.)

So that was the moment

of splitting,

the moment

of making visible

ourselves,

that was it - the first act that all 

creation has been doomed

ever since

to repeat and represent.

Every physical entity on earth

contains within it an imitation

of that moment of splitting

 

The sperm (the physical

projectile born

of the desire to

see and be with the 

Other

                (so completely),

yes the sperm is

the physical imitation of the desire

to enter into

the engulfing presence

of the engenderer.

(if you can figure that one out,

you get a gold star---)

 

* * *

 

because the Other to the physical creation

is so Beautiful

that the physical creation

wants, immediately

to penetrate and become

part of it again.

Something like that.

)

( pixabella )

Every physical entity on earth

contains within it an imitation

of that moment of splitting

Indeed, that includes

the human,

the creature doomed

to strut and fret

our time upon this stage,

we, our body-avatars,

and the trinity 

of liquidity

we each contain

are all the imitation

of what god produced and saw

at that moment of dividing

in half,

              but the problem,

              as Isaac Luria helps us see,

was that the creation

of the duplication

of God produced

such a force

[the power of God]

made manifest

         at the moment

              of this production,

there was such an explosion,

( baylor )

like fireworks,

 That

 

is the manifestation

of the power

of 

GOD

 

 

 

( 2005 Cosmic Explosion - NASA)

I'm serious.

( space.com )

 . . . . and at the moment of the bang,

everything

became visible

physical,

ie:

it was created.

(It's that simple!)

 

 (Space.com2 ) 

 

 So, anyway,

at that mment of explosion and 

production,

the negative,              the positive

the unseen,                     the seen,

the unheard                        the heard

the unfelt,                 the felt

came to be.

it's that simple, 

those concepts

and all they signify

came to be

be 

cause

of creation

and the creative urge.

So we live in the physical realm, because that's the

half of God we

occupy,

but 

that doesn't preclude

the existence of the

non existent.

It's just there,

and all that it (the non-existent) contains

is the negative

of the totality

that is the manifest

in

the physical.

(That's a hard concept to grasp

when you live in the physical.)

But as I said,

the problem

                        and the beauty

                 of it all

is that each of us

contains

an imitation

of that doubling

to one extent or the other.

So Luria helps me say: god created

the imitation of

god, male and female

so they could see

themselves,

but the energy produced at that 

moment

was too great

for the illusion,

the representation

to remain while,

so it exploded and shattered

into pieces

and the pieces 

got the unenviable job

of picking up the pieces

and having to put them back

together 

again.

And that's what we've been doing

for millenia,

and god

in Her distant place, delighted

at the delightful games

of Her children BUT

got disturbed if the Boys

got too rough

*

please think semiotically

*

ANYWAY,

all species also imitate

the duality and the moment

of creation

and the Desire

to Reproduce,

over and over because

that desire

and compulsion

has maintained

our existence

giving us

time

to evolve

our minds,

our souls,

our spirits

our goods and our evils,

all the intangible

invisible

entities that

the frail human body

was appointed

to contain and sustain in

the delicate cases

we encase:

our brains,

our hearts,

our solar plexus,

our stomachs, which provide

the protective shield for containing

the unprotectable.

( science-nationalgeographic )

Our fingers,

our ears,

our eyes 

represent

the fingers,

ears,

eyes

of God

 made manifest

at the moment when We

confronted

our eact opposites, 

those which contains

our good and our bad,

we,

who contain

God's essences

     imitate

that moment of looking, too,

which also includes the moment

of being disappointed

because our Other

our Creation

isn't perfect,

wasn't perfect,

won't be perfect,

won't be Us

completely

because if God's

Other Half

was perfect,

God wouldn't be able to see it,

because He would be it.

 

that's right :

we wouldn't have to divide ourselves

in an attempt to see

ourselves

if we didn't contain 

a pinch

of the imperfect.

Oh, now you,

dear reader who dared

to make it this far,

you wonder:

where the hell is this going?

As I sit and read this,

I know what it says.

It says:

I even I

with my changeable moods,

my unchartable soul,

my angry temper

my fits of elation

and tearful, lonely evenings

I contain 

an imitation

of God at the moemnt

tHEy

(male and female)

let the pinch of imperfection

influence itself and deicde

to divide 

so it could see itself

I imitate that moment

of god's self-consciousness,

and imitate

the entity he saw,

the entity that was 

too great

to be whole,

so it exploded

and became 

the scattered remnants

of the visible

             reproduction of God--

and the shattering, glimmering parts of the fractured god 

regrouped

 - so to speak -

and became

planets and stars

and plants and animals

all 

species,

all with our different task,

as we have worked together over the ages,

striving to reproduce the whole,

and humans had the job

of building the connections ,

and over time we have evolved

and we have reached

a

near perfect

connection

I can sit in my living room and see and talk to 

in real time

a friend of mine

in Singapore.

We're so close to being the complete unity

we're supposed to be

but we have 

one problem:

 

we each still feel we're different from each other.

We are at a cusp.

We each have to recognize

that in our individual selves

though we reproduce both parts of god,

still,

within our individual selves

we can really only contain 

half,

and somewhere there

is the Other 

half of us

with whom,

when we're together

we produce a melting

into One, just One

 

 

this applies equally to 

individuals,

families,

states,

nations,

worlds. . . .

*

And you see we each

have to recognize

and admit

that in containing 

the parts of god, we must

also contain god's opposite,

which is 

evil

because evil is something 

God created, 

so we would all know good.

God is all,

and so are we,

but we

just happen to be

fractured all,

the physical part of God

that God produced

when God felt the desire

to see

the self.

( tikkun )

Do we want to See God

in our time?

Well, you know,

the only way we can do that

is to act like the gods

we were born to be,

which means

we need to recognize

that the man and the woman

the most opposite

of ourselves

is one essential piece

in the visible puzzle

of the perfect picture

of the product of god.

We need

to forgive ourselves

our faults

and forgive our

brothers their faults

and forgive the Others:

the dark,

the female,

the strange,

the silent,

as they must do

unto us.

It's that flippin' easy.

Jesus said it too,

but he was rendered a sound bite.

Still,

his message 

never changed.

The most essential part

of this simple task is

that we must be honest

with ourselves

first,

and see our flaws,

and once we honestly

acknowledge

the wrong we ourselves

have committed or contemplated,

we can also look past

what we view

as the wrongs in others.

I'm not saying we should get rid 

of our negative impulses.

We can't.

But we should acknowledge

them,

live with them,

find 

an arena in which we can

act on them 

so no one gets hurt

and get on with the task

of saving our earth,

that is,

if we do indeed enjoy this joy ride we've been on

enough

to want to see it survive beyond

the next step

in our evolution.

 

Panorama of Grand Canyon Village Lookout supplied by Panoramic Earth

 

 (panaromic earth)

 

The Scholar: A Channelling

. . . . and so it begins

the horrendous roller coaster 

treadmill of the academic

year

Some people think college professors

have it made,

but honestly

these days

that isn't true.

( Shelah )

Of course, there are those 

tenured faculty, who

admired what appeared to be the easy life

of their 

English Professor,

in the 1970's,

and perhaps it was 

easy

in its way.

But like a child who admires his father's

authority,

the students who envisions and envies

his professor's 

solitary ease,

imitates it, and 

imitates it with exaggeration.

After all, the child doesn't see the work

that goes into 

apparent ease.

So, yes, there are

professors today

who are very, very

lazy, and then

there are those who do

their jobs, which means

when September hits, so too does their

4-4 or 5-5

teaching load

hit

the fan and splatter

and so begins. . . 

the meetings and the committees and

the papers and the

                  Task Forces

designed by administrators

with literature Ph.D.s 

who are either more cunning

or more beguiling

or more corrupt

than the menial faculty.

And the duties they design

so urgently 

will become passe

when they move away

in a year or two

to a seaside experimental College

not too far from Berkeley.

( Bowman )

Yes, so it begins,

and I 

a faculty 

member

spawned by hardworking mentors

begin my struggle:

my mind gets cluttered

with a multitude of tasks

designed to appeal

to my well-meaninged

intentions,

designed to quell my cantankarous

ruminations.

All week long I trudge

from day to day 

from paper, to paper,

pursuing these days

when my brain, so full

of mutterings

can spill

on this miserable page.

With a little help

from my friends, I squeeze

the chatter 

into oblivion, for a time

when time gallops

forward, and so does

my pen, just barely

fast enough

to capture the moaning voices

of captives in my head

my head

the cave

the cave

where perhaps exists a

universe just like

the one we live in,

and the great mind 

that fashions the wheel

that spins around a glowing

center in this world

is mine.  And somewhere

on a planet circling that star

in my mind

                                         lives me, struggling to see

                                 the meaning of it all.

The savior of the world

in my own mind is me,

and if I can just be true

to me

everything will be all right.

 - - - ) ) ) ( ( ( - - -

This is where the current 

academy

comes in:

it is designed to detain

the minds of men

and women

from themselves.

It was designed by men

living inside their own heads

100 years or so

ago,

and it worked for awhile,

But not anymore, as the 

master brain evolves to meet

the God-Brain,

the ways of that mind

that Old old mind

will no longer fit the bill.

Jesus will come as the scholar

in the 4 days of the grid,

in the

Age of the Grid

at the exact

point of juncture

where & when

women &  men

realize

The Messiah is the mind that

unites us,

the point

of agreement

and acceptance

and forgiveness.

It's so easy

that it's hard, the hardest

thing in the world

to do.

( spanblog )

Most people would just

laugh

and say:

it's the stupidest

most asinine

idea, and no way

could it happen:

what could happen:

humans would advance to the point

where they could all

we could all 

just look each other

in the eye

and just

stop

fighting

              just

stop

demanding

notoreity

or equality,

because

If we all stopped fighting,

stopped hating,

started communicating

we'd all be equal.

That's right:

suddenly,

we would all

be

equal.

Jesus will come as the Scholar

in the 4 Days of the Grid:

in earlier entries

I've contemplated

who Jesus was

       or is,

and mostly,

what the Grid is,

but have I spoken of the scholar?

The scholar is the greatest

any man can be,

recognizing that scholar

-ship

means reaching the highest

intellectual potential

one can reach

on the subject that one

is born to be best at;

therefore;

one can be a scholar

in their taxi, or a

scholar delivering mail,

or a scholar

teaching infants,

or a scholar

in jail.

 Just as long as the mind

that God gave you,

that absolute 

 organ

made in His likeness,

just as long as you are true

to its greatest potential,

you, too,

                are part of

Jesus rising. 

- - - ( ( ( ) ) ) - - -

Jesus will come again

as the Scholar

to the scholars

when the 4 points unite:

the East

the West

the North

the South

at the moment of the juncture

when the eye of God

gazes directly

at the mind of Man

through the only aperture

in the heavens

that makes this possible:

by the way,

it's a mirror

in the mind

of God:

that's the ticket,

that's the 2-way street,

the moment of Reflective Practice

when God reflects 

on himself:

and when he does, we

are the image he sees:

We happy Three

We Trinity.

( lovezanedale )

Is this a joke?

Is this a drug induced

harangue?

Or is it

a channelling,

a message

from the galaxy

inside of me

that is really

my point of entry to

the entirety

of the almighty.

Don't think too hard.

Just ride that trai

and if you fall off,

don't fret

there's always another.

But if you're wondering the date and time

of this miraculous

mirror gazing:

it would be

some time in the 12th month

of the year

2012.

No, Well, Probably Three

hiya

now in the last entry, 

I contemplated how a given channelling body

can channel more than one personality,

probably three,

maybe more.

I know I have at least three who are 

pretty damned strong.

Are any of them me?

(insert my name as it is known on this earthly plane, which,

quite frankly, 

just isn't that important.)

No.

Not a single damned one of them can claim that name.

They are all other spirits

working through my

earthly avatar

and the difference

between me

and you

is that I acknowledge

that not one single aspect

of the combination of forces

that exist within me 

is dominant:

they are all equal,

and their primary job

on earth is to find a way

whereby they can function 

as equals.

The only way is by using the mind,

that tool in our Avatar

that we were given,

which has the power

to balance our disparate differences.

( templeton-cambridge )

I mean, honestly, why not?

It seems the most economical way to do it, after all.

Imagine all the fragmented,

fractured 

personalities that resulted

from the shattering of the glass

at the beginning of time

-- that nasty old reflecting surface, that mirror --

(to understand this more, please see my earlier entries on the mirror

and palindromes)

We've gone through time

piecing them together,

trying to find the perfect balance --

(each couple, indeed, could be channeling

up to at least eight personalities,

maybe more,

that have to be absolutely in harmony

in order for the couple

to be happy.)

I'm going back to non-italics:

if you can,

read these sections first,

then go back to the italics,

because that's how my mind works:

So, imagine this:

our bodies are avatars =

containers that carry

the multiple dimensions

of the aspect

of God

which is perfect.

It's funny, because

in the movie 

Avatar

there was only one 

person

per

avatar;

however,

don't you think that,

given the expense of the technology,

and given

the rise in group think

in our society 

even Americans would see the logic

of putting more than one personality 

into on avatar --

that's right:

if the USofA

developed the technology

of the avatar and decided

(as in the movie)

to get to know

another nation or creation,

you'd be damned sure you wouldn't get

an avatar to yourself:

it's neither cost conscious, 

nor effective.

Indeed, folks working
in avatars
would have to learn to work together,
in small groups
wherein the personalities all
have different,
complimentary
strengths.
That would make maximum use of the technology.

 . . . . . 

I mean, seriously,

how many space flights had 

only one man on board?

( spaceflight.nasa )

And for the ones that did only have one man,

did they get very far?

( nasa.gov )

This is not to say that we don't need those rebels,

those daredevils who dare

to go first,

but when it comes right down to getting bigger jobs done,

yes, even America has come to realize

you need more than one.

(  columbia  )

(NO!

I'm not being a communist:

just look at it; 

we - the USofA - are very clearly promoting

the group:

 (Google meeting pods designed after Antarctic expedition igloos

found at:

jonathan fields.com )

in-class presentations,

working environments,

everything ----is moving

towards privileging

groups over individuals

so why do we get so upset

over the idea of

a government that acknowledges

that the health of the group

is at least as important as the health

of the individual?

Huh?

Or a government style that feels that

promoting collective solutions

can be more productive than

individual solutions?

I went off track to point out that,

one of the primary flaws in 

the logic of the American system is that

it places far too much importance

on the individual, even as it is

acknowledging, more and more

that the best solutions are

collective solutions.

Very rarely do we experience

 a genius, 

and I'm about to propose an explanation

as to why that so rarely happens:

( wcotrim )

So imagine this:

Imagine that when we are not in our bodies,

we are in another form -

a spiritual form,

that is nearly perfect,

except for the fact that it

was kind of broken

at the beginning of time.

That's right,

the entity we embody 

when we are not in our bodies

is not God;

it is the representation of God

and it was created

at the beginning of time, 

and

it was kind of broken,

by God, who (if you remember

my earlier entries, on the Creation,

etc. . . .follow the key words)

in a moment of weakness,

had the crazy idea

that He wanted

to create something that was exactly

the same

as Him.

 ( Marassasclass )

That's right:

why the hell did God

want to create something in his own likeness

If he was everything?

I mean:

seriously, folks,

if God is everything

he has no fucking reason

to want to create

something

beyond himself.

come on!

Let's be serious, 

now.

but he did

And the reason why God felt the desire

to see himself,

was because:

He is Everything.

And part of everything is:

desire,

lust,

greed,

jealousy,

power,

subserviance,

dominance

desire

desire

desire

desire

So at the moment when God experienced

a preponderance of Desire,

(because God, being God, goes in cycles,

trying out the various aspects

of everything

at regular intervals)

He produced Us.

So He could look at Us.

Because we are all

part of Him.

We, combined,

are the mirror image

of God,

which -

don't forget 

- is Everything.

Humankind is the
ongoing experimen
to reproduce
the perfect mix
that is God
so we can get back to the task
of reflecting God's greatness
back to God;
indeed
we can get back to the task of being God.

So each human entity
is a combination

of the parts of Him,
but only a limited combination

because

each one of us is limited

in  the qualities we can hold

because we're holding our qualities

in physical containers,

and the physical

is not infinite.

(  completelysmitten )

So please read my entries on tikkun, Kabbalah, and Creation --

I can't explain again everything in them.

Anyway:

imagine this:

at the moment of creation

God broke the mirror,

or whatever the object was

that He intended to view himself in

because, shit,

that mirror had the task of 

reflecting 

infinity,

and,

well,

any created substance

does not match the power

of Everything.

So the mirror broke,

into bits and pieces

that got named at that moment

of creation;

humans are part of that

rubble,

and our task ever since then

has been:

to put it back together again;

to reproduce

the perfect

combination

of all the elements

and rejoin

God,

which is everything,

again.

This is a problem

and a challenge,

because

the inherent aspect

of all life

all creation

is that it is 

individualized

specified

separate.

In fact,

we had to gain

a more specific

sense of our selves,

our specific identities

before we could

merge again

into being

God.

( blackcommenter )

That's what the beauty of America

is.

One of my former husbands said

that America is nothing but

a great experiment

(oh, I know he's not the first to say it)

a great attempt to 

ignore difference, but of course

that's proving to be impossible:

the biggest problem in America today

is that we just can't tolerate

difference.

But to be American,

following the original tenents

of America

is to be

tolerant,

forgiving,

respectful.

( DecOfInd )

Anyway,

America was the first step 

in the evolution of the collective mind

to combine the parts of the broken vessel

on a collective level. 

But perhaps it was too early?

No, I think not --

( sulekha )

At the beginning of time,

when God created Man,

he produced Avatars,

recognizing that the Avatars

cannot contain just one piece

of God,

because if the Avatars

contained just one piece

of God,

they would simply sustain the problem,

the problem being

that God was not Everything

as long as Part of Everything

was Us.

US

The United States of America --

That place where States -

geographical boundaries

retain an individual identity

when the real essence

of the founding fathers' documents

was Union.

If the United States of America

could realize that

it is one country

that is responsible for

all  of its citizens

no matter what

their race, religion,

color, or code,

then the United States of America

could

be the model for the rest of the World.

But the danger, is, this:

we can't do it while also retaining

our stubborn hold on believing 

in the validity of the individual.

We literally have to lose

our Egos

and love one another

Now isn't that the craziest thing

you've ever heard in your life?

. . . . this is not the miracle.

The miracle is this:

if we suddenly,

by some 

insane

balance of all the elements,

all our disparate parts

Fell In Love

with each other,

which means:

loving the black man

loving the white man

loving the Asian man

loving the Muslim man

loving the man who

loves the man;

loving

the woman who loves

the woman because she sees

the woman understands, in a way

that no man can understand

because the Man Is The Mirror

In every couple, we have the reproduction

of the two halves of God -- the women

gets the horrible task of being the more powerful

creative half,

the Man, oh the sad sad Man,

has to recognize that his task

is, well, functional:

the Man is the Mirror,

the object God produced

so God Could See God--Self.

But it gets more challenging still:
if you can acknowledge the premise

that each couple reenacts the creative impulse,

the moment of desire when God wanted to see 

Herself

and if you acknowledge the idea that

the mirror broke

because it was not up to the job,

and WE are the pieces of the mirror

and OUR TASK is to use this earth

+

our earthly avatars

+

all the elements the earth gives us

in order to find

the perfect balance that brings us back to

God

well, hell, if you're still with me,

bless your heart,

If you can acknowledge all of that,

well, then you might see why

it is essential that all these avatars

(AKA: our bodies)

cannot just contain 

(ie: channel)

one personality

To be more efficient,

the avatars

should contain at least three, maybe

even four

of the elements of God,

and if

within that avatar

those elements find a way 

to have balance,

well, 

then,

that avatar,

which we know as a human personality

would be said to have attained a level of self-awareness

that is genius:

genius is when, in fact, a human entity represents

a successful experiment

a successful combining

of the disparate parts

of the pieces of a mirror

that was intended to have the power

to mirror the Almighty.

If you take that the next step then,

what is Love?

Love is the capacity for one human being

who has found a sincere balance 

between the elements he/she is channeling

to absolutely forgive, desire, and respect

another individual who has done the same.

Perfect Love

is when each individual is capable of looking beyond

terrific differences

anyway --

I am channeling at least three personalities,

and one of them is most definitely

Makropoulos --

at least one other

loves the idea of Makropoulos

and wants to play along,

and another does too

but she's the personality

who, to date, has always 

been a Company Girl.

There might be

another one in there,

and I think she's a slut.

The thing is:

the other three are so

darned strong,
and

we're working so hard
at just getting
along.