Saturday, August 29, 2009

Samsara Parable

"where are we heading?"

who are you asking? don't you know?

"i haven't been behind the wheel in years....."

i am a passenger as well. i know as much as you do.

"well we're heading somewhere...."

according to who?

"well we're moving..... some place is ahead...."

and what is after that place?

"some other place... that doesn't matter yet. i would just like to know what the next place is like. where we'll be soon."

some times it is sad to see you so stuck. like a bee trapped in honey slowly sliding down the side of a tree. you could be at the top of the tree or the bottom, but you'd still be stuck in honey. you are more concerned with your destination than you are your predicament. would it not be wiser to escape from the honey?

"i'm not stuck in honey....."

well..... you are stuck.... and in something sweet

Strange Transmissions

wrote this to Daniel Pinchbeck to see what he thought:

"I am the king of gods. I merely wear this mask as a ruse to astound myself at the beauty and strength of my knowledge. Not a vision. There is no mirage. I am the oasis. I am the oasis. I am the oasis. I am the oasis. I am the oaisis. I am thieas sis isis. I am the dfgiasids. I am the oasiss.s. I am osiris."

I am not one to grip to every strange idea or metaphor I think of at any given moment, especially not those that I dream up on hallucinogens. This particular quote, however, came back to me as I was reading some of Robert Anton Wilson's works.

I am sure it is something, though I am also just as sure it is nothing. The reason it is so interesting to me is because at that time I had relatively no knowledge of Egyptian mythology, or of any sort of mystic connection between Isis, Osiris, and the star Sirius.

Does it mean anything to you?

Curiously yours,

-Ates Isildak


and he was nice enough to reply:

Thanks for the email.

I have other friends who have beamed into osiris during lsd trips without knowing much of egyptian mythology. That’s what past lives will do for you!

Yours,
Daniel


Daniel (Hebrew: דָּנִיֵּאל, Modern Daniyyel Tiberian Dāniyyêl ; Assyrian: ܕܢܝܐܝܠ, Daniyel; Arabic: دانيال,Persian: دانيال, Dâniyal or Danial, also Dani, داني ; Danyal; Greek: Δανιήλ, Dhanil) is the central protagonist of the Book of Daniel. The name "Daniel" means "God is my judge", Dan = judge, "i = a 1st person singular possessive suffix, and "El" = God.


Here is a link to a website about his groundbreaking book Breaking Open the Head (for those unfamiliar with his work, the book is spectacular) http://www.breakingopenthehead.com/

Friday, August 28, 2009

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