Zigzag Idiot

More hippy music.

To experience Love means having basic trust in others. To have trust means to be open. So the first thing to do is to Let Go. Let go and be empty and receptive.

Alarm Clock. ? Has some good descriptions.

H I repeat songs the way old people repeat telling stories. I'm almost old. 52 ??‍?

I'm interested in the change of direction Leo has taken. He makes a good point about rewatching his previously released episodes. The talk he gave a week ago was over 3 hours yet I watched it twice and would probably gain something if I watched it a 3rd time. His series on self deception is one I watched repeatedly. The idea of observing and processing one's own schadenfreude is something I've kept returning to. Purifying the emotional center is another way of putting it. The way it's expressed in Gurdjieff groups or Fourth Way Work,,, Metanoia is another rarely used word that has significance in regards to personal transformation. In the King James Bible, this Greek word - 'metanoia' was horribly translated as repentance. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metanoia_(theology) Martin Butler's last podcast is relevant to the idea that it's negativity that makes the world go around. How does ordinary resentment feed schadenfreude? Negative, lower emotions like resentment trashes out our third eye or intuitive capacities.

You're willing to express yourself in front of the camera. To be vulnerable in that way is a courageous act. I'm unable to do it. I just watched Teal Swan's latest. There's an interesting correlation I can't define at the moment, between the 'spirit' of her video and the 'spirit ' of yours. ?

@VeganAwake Thanks for posting. I kind of knew who he was but have never watched many of his videos. He was certainly a foundational member from the beginning. I think he helped edit the Book and start the nonprofit foundation. I have a feeling there will be many more of his videos added here over time.

When I was an active alcoholic, my favorite time to be completely snockered was on Monday or Tuesday mornings when the rest of the world out there became serious with work responsibilities, time cards, traffic laws, being productive, work orders, commitments, goals, self righteous indignation, political opinions, sincere identifications, and all the other things that gives one the right to be a breathing, voting, American citizen. But I was also raised a halfway fundamentalist Christian, by very well meaning parents. This, though, left me beginning everyday as a lowly unworthy sinner stained with guilt. Now there's a good reason to drink and dissociate! What a vicious cycle that kind of confusion creates. Confusion which perpetually perturbs the mind and keeps one divorced from the natural essence of one's Being. Or in hindsight, it seems to play out that way. It's no wonder orange Spiral Dynamic materialists have such devotion and determination. Abstract philosophical ways of being appearantly quickly leads to insanity or at least, maybe just becoming a loser. The Buddhist definition of Wisdom as - understanding silence, seems to make no sense at all to those of the western mindset. Maybe the times are slowly changing though.

If you like AC/DC, you probably like some of Joan Jett's music.

Although I liked Judas Priest some, I never did warm up to Metallica. AC DC I really enjoyed. Back in Black was a great Album.

Thanks @Applegarden , I fell asleep last night while forming a response centered around my interpretation of Gurdjieffs idea of Kundalini. By the way,, very impressive guitar work! A part of my ongoing troubles also is that I have a throat chakra that near chronicly malfunctions. I have hope because at times I catch a glimpse of what George Gurdjieff metaphorically referred to as the organ Kundabuffer. This metaphorical organ Kundabuffer represents the curse of our unconstrained imagination which pollutes our objectivity. It's my hypothesis for now that working with this notion of Kundabuffer will eventually undo the twist that exists for me in regard to the fifth chakra. After studying Beelzebub's Tales To His Grandson, I produced the following homemade equation around my interpretation of what Gurdjieff was trying to get at. Kundalini = Prana = Kundabuffer = uncontrolled imagination = dispersed attention and chi/ Prana energy versus Kundalini + 3 Centered Awareness = Holy Prana which leads to full awakening and Self realization through the ability of Consciously directing one's attention. 3 Centered awareness is synonymous with his invented word fulasnitamnian awareness. Itoklanoz awareness represents an imbalance of the instinctual, feeling, and intellectual centers resulting in 'waking sleep' or spititual sleep. A numerology reading of my numbers indicates a struggle with imagination until the latter years of this current lifetime. I've always been a daydreamer who builds castles in the air. This seems to be a part of my delimma. I don't know whether it may be considered karmic or not. Anyway, In my interpretation, this is a condition Gurdjieff considered the main downfall in the psyche of all contemporary humanity. This statement of yours reminded me of the Sufi's notion of " the Lataif. Presence of the Lataif Can be Overlooked This particular one of the lataif, the heart center, is connected with the experience of compassion. At this level of experience, all of the excitement, glitter and drama of the heart chakra are gone. Instead, what is experienced in the chest cavity is emptiness. The whole chest feels as if it is gone. There is nothing left but a very clear, peaceful and silent emptiness. It feels as if nothing is occurring there, yet it is open and lucid. If the person pays closer attention, it will become apparent that this peaceful emptiness is pervaded by a very fine and subtle Presence, so fine and subtle that it is usually overlooked by the one having the experience. This fine and subtle Presence pervading the emptiness of the heart is the latifa or the first manifestation of it. The person will experience a subtle but exquisite sense of compassion, for himself and all others. Essence with the Elixir of Enlightenment, pg. 31 For more info. about the Lataif : https://www.diamondapproach.org/glossary/refinery_phrases/lataif

Please ignore me if I begin to infuriate you. We can become tortured by the mind. When the locus of my experience shifts down into and emanates from the belly and especially the Hara, I feel as though I have my will and I have my being. When the locus of my experience radiates from the head brain, then, I'm just a poor bastard who thinks too much. Especially when the heart center is buying into the whole narrative. Becoming grounded in the body is like going through the quiet door. Being is in the - I am of the heart. The essence of Being is presence without the conceptual mind putting name tags on everything. Escaping the Trap of the Mind Ultimately, everybody loves absolute absence whether they know it or not. You know you love it when you become aware of pure consciousness. Before pure consciousness you are trapped within the differentiating consciousness, discriminating, rejecting, and prizing one aspect of consciousness over another. You want essence or are angry because there is pain; you reject this person because they don't like you, judge that person because they're different from you, and so on. Within the differentiating consciousness, you are busy within the knowable world, trapped within your own mind. To go from consciousness to absence is to break out of the cycle of birth and death, to escape the trap. Diamond Heart Book Five, pg. 137

Synchronicity for me is nearly always an affirming kind of experience. Even when the circumstances are dark. As a teenager, I was sitting out in the car after church waiting for the folks to get through shaking hands and exchanging pleasantries. Like always, I turned on the radio to listen to Casey Kasem's Top 40 Countdown. It ran 3 hours every Sunday from 10:00 - 1:00. This particular day Casey Kasem told a story about James Taylor and his writing the song Fire and Rain when he was in rehab for Heroin addiction and his life was just a wreck. For some reason the story just stuck with me. Fast forward about 3-4 years. I feel completely out of control and couldn't keep myself away from alcohol. In a turbulent state of anxiety, I more or less begged to be locked up somewhere. I got my wish. The facility was in a larger city about an hour and a half away. From a small admissions office, I was led into the lockdown area where shoestrings weren't allowed and everyone in this section was more or less on suicide watch. Going through the white big metal locking door made it feel like a prison. A short walk down a hall in this lockdown section with a nurse and we stopped at a nurse's station. I'll never forget the weird feeling I got when I heard the small radio tucked away behind the nurses desk as it was quietly playing James Taylor's - Fire and Rain. So, in a way, this song has always held a special significance for me.

Thought I'd just make a small pile of my favorite Supertramp songs. "If you're the joke of the neighborhood, why should you care, if you're feeling good."

Aaron Abke Makes to the point explanations about what the ego actually is. I put it here because he references ACIM.

Poem by Red Hawk The Teaching It is as old as the stones. It came with Humans to the Earth and it offers them a way out of the web of sorrows but at a price: we must observe ourselves, our behavior, our inner and outer responses, objectively. This means without taking a personal interest or doing anything about the horror which self observation uncovers: like a bad boy with a stick overturning a stone and finding mass of crawling things beneath, but he refrains from stomping on them. (Red Hawk, THE WAY OF POWER, 67)

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Bump for Fellow students of Astrology Using this as a perceptual filter off and on throughout the year. Doing this I can learn somethings about the framework of Astrology while looking for validity in its application. In my own birth chart, I have Earth, fire, and water represented but no air representation. 5 planets piled up on Virgo and two on Scorpio, a Capricorn asendent, moon in Leo and a yod (finger of God) pointing between my sun and mercury in Virgo which is ruled by Mercury. Im trying to learn so if I state something incorrectly someone please correct me. Her monotone voice grates on my nerves but I intuit that her overall understanding/knowledge of Astrology is well beyond my own.

Is the "Omega Point” , a term coined by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to describe the evolution of our universe the same thing as Terence Mckenna's Transcendental object at the end of time. Could this also be what's spoken of in ACIM as the "Sonship".

John Lennon was so impressed with Alejandro Jodorowski's film - El Topo - that he bought a theater in New York in 1970 just to have the movie played every night. Thus began the phenomena of 'Midnight movies'.