Modern Stargates

Kindred Spirit/I Drove All Night

2012-02-05T15:09:00.000-08:00

"Kindred Spirit"

If you think you're hearing something

And you can't think what it is

If you feel a quiet longing

Lift your heart into the wind

There you'll find my kindred spirit

There you'll meet me as a friend

It is just a kindred feeling

And a song to let you in...

What happens if we apply the phrase "The Perfect Humans travel in light-form from the Galactic Centre to various locations" to the song I Drove All Night? Maybe Cyndi Lauper already did that...

(Note: some mature concepts)

The lyrical story seems to be almost a carbon-copy of Mihai Eminescu's "The Lucifer" (who is driven by desire). One of my friends has a recent art project: The Archangels, and several of them are women (yep, it's canon if you know where to look: it is titled "temperament" and/or "preferred form"). They may very well drive all night as we speak... The Galactic Centre is often referred to as a "City".

Blessed Ones of Love

2012-01-19T03:01:00.000-08:00

I have always found the transformative Gates from Sumerian myth fascinating, and especially the idea that Earth was not a realm of death. Given that characters are still able to be killed, I would venture the suggestion that most of the experiences told about in the non-death mode were those of the Faerie Race*. Mortal humans come into it in different ways and, for the most part, experience the Faeries as haughty and extremely polarized (typical of a civilization's end times).
The Gates document the levels on which the psyche exists. Inanna, Goddess of Love, is able to travel (project) through the Universe by contracting and expanding her awareness.
Recently, I sensed that the film Inception (starring Leonardo DiCaprio) could be related to these stories of Descent and Ascension through the levels of "dream" (existence). I specifically enjoyed the depiction of the event speed difference in those levels - a reference to Frequencies?

But it's even more fascinating, and quite a jolt, when a myth begins to re-enact itself in our world.

Even though the story excerpt below is a modern translation I only just found on the old Assyrian myth, I have nevertheless experienced the psychic healing described therein, for many years. I am a "Daughter of Eve" as they generically call us women, and the male "Lovers of men" connect me with my essential masculinity (soulmate).
But I have had to wait (not so patiently, did I so), because even though I see their gift as another form of Grace, and the irresistible beauty and boundary-crossing as a direct spiritual metaphor, I would only be projecting my own ideals were those souls not to identify a positive context for themselves, and powerful positive figures (bringing these outwards from within). And then the battle with our egos would be worsened, because it's very easy to resonate through soul wounds and thus keep the pain alive. For example, Feminism is like creating a tough armour against past injustices, and although Feminists search for powerful female figures in history, it tends to focus on worshipping someone just because she's female, regardless of character - a simple reversal of the male-dominated focus. So if Eve is constructed as an evil force in one culture, the tendency with recuperating her importance now is to overcompensate. However, I am having a blast discovering a much more palpable reality to her: not the spiritually weak naked girl with the leaf bikini, but a queen, a spiritual instructor, a real historical/transhistorical person with some hard decisions to make, and a full match for her hubby Adam - and all this is affected (accessed) by how I view myself: neither weak nor strong in the absolute. Therefore, this powerful figure is brought forward from within, and then I can relate to another historical figure as being "powerful" - by accepting one is both good and bad.

I'm so happy right now, I couldn't begin to describe it. There are many of us who must "come out of the closet" with different beliefs and experiences (a very wide range), but it's not so much a question of what others can accept, it's more of a question whether we agree to support our own energy in such an open way (accepting ourselves). That relationship with Self is what others perceive as special.

"You told us to make love, not war. Then, why is Love making war on us?"
(Maurice Béjart, Ballet For Life)

Because Damuzi (Adam) was taken away from her/him and it tore her/his soul, and Mankind entered the era of War. Though it would seem it was all done for spiritual growth (if you're that way inclined - which I'm not, because I don't trust Death Gods, but that's quite another story).

Source

I had asked for a sign that the personal reality of the male lovers was an independent one, as said, regardless of my fantasy creation of the "essential masculinity" (Love [GOD] creates freedom and independence, by being an inner Gateway to infinite energy).

"Enki the Wise, being of course wise, came up with a plan. He created a being to save Inanna**, and to be her close and trusted friend. From the dirt beneath his fingernails he made Asushunamir, whose name means 'he/she whose face is brilliant'. And being luminescent like the moon, Asushunamir passed directly into the underworld from the overworld, as only the moon can do. In the dark palace of the underworld he appeared before Ereshkigal.

'Oh my my, what have we here!' Ereshkigal cried. She was overtaken with desire at his/her beauty, and became immediately obsessed with taking Asushunamir to her bed. She called a lavish feast in his/her honor, and had her best wine brought to the table. Asushunamir sang in his/her ethereal voice for her, and danced sensually, but was careful not to eat any food prepared by ghosts, and to pour his wine on the floor when Ereshkigal wasn't looking.

When Ereshkigal had at last become very drunk, Asushunamir asked of her, 'Oh great and lovely queen... is it not true you keep the Water of Life here? For I have heard it is so, and I have longed to taste it.'
'Namtar!' Ereshkigal cried. 'Bring me the jug that holds the Water of Life! I shall grant this magnificent creature's wish.'

When Ereshkigal finally passed out in a drunken stupor, Asushunamir quietly took the jug to the cell where Inanna lay dying. He/she sprinkled the Water of Life upon her, and Inanna quickly began to revive, her eyes regaining their sparkle and her face flushing pink like a child's. Hurriedly she rose, and bidding Asushunamir to follow, raced upward through the seven gates and back to Earth. As she burst through the final door, the flowers immediately began to open and the grass to green, and the skies cleared at last.

Asushunamir was not so fortunate. Just as he was approaching the seventh gate, Ereshkigal awakened, and no amount of music, dance or flattery could charm her now.
'The food of the gutter shall be your food!' Ereshkigal shrieked. 'The drink of the sewer shall be your drink! In the shadows you shall abide.'

When Inanna learned of the curse placed upon her friend, she wept and spoke softly to him/her. 'The power of Ereshkigal is great,' she said. 'Even I cannot break her spell. But I may soften her curse upon you.
'For many ages you will suffer. Those who are like you, my assinnu, kalum, kurgarru, and kalaturru, lovers of men, kin to my sacred women, shall be strangers in their own homes. Their families will keep them in the shadows and will leave them nothing. The drunken shall smite their faces, and the mighty shall imprison them.
'But if you will remember me, how you were born from the light of the stars to save me from death, to rid the Earth of winter, then I shall harbor you and your kind. I shall give you the gift of prophecy, the wisdom of the Earth and Moon. You shall banish illness from my children, as you healed me in Irkalla. And when you robe yourself in my robes, I shall dance in your feet and sing in your throats. And no man shall be able to resist your enchantments.

'When the Water of Life*** is brought up from Irkalla, then lions shall leap in the deserts and you shall be freed from the spell of Ereshkigal. Once more you shall be called Asushunamir. The Shining Ones. Those Who Have Come to Renew the Light. The Blessed Ones of Inanna.'"
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Tee hee... :D

* To some, Faerie is synonymous with Gay - an issue which came up during the writing of my essay Freddie Mercury and Fairies in the Modern World. Faeries are not Gay per se, due to a much more developed equality of gender roles and a spiritual awareness of energetic embodiment. However, as we see about Enki the Wise, they can "create" such transitional forms which, in the Earth realm, are especially representative of the free circulation of the Electromagnetic Force (Chi). The idea underpinning their culture is "to marry one's genetic and spiritual equal", which seems to quantumly find its way into the term "gay" (short for Good As You). I like how the Universe plays quantum word games.
The problem is that to some religious folks, this free circulation of the Chi (i.e. boys looking like girls, girls looking like boys, and everyone looking androgynous) "spells out the End". Lol - the end of what? Patriarchal values, is it? Yep, that's bad if you have control issues. I am aware that the androgynous image can be manipulative, but that's precisely the point: it is supposed to entrance your lower aspects (resulting in said fantasy/obsession). And values like honour, devotion and friendship remain the same - they simply get a new chance to make it. The End? Bring it on! :)

** In Inanna's case, her Resurrection force is an aspect of her husband. The Goddess has both male and female incarnations in Time & Space. Our society is not focused on seeking that Perfect Match where Love is concerned, hence the importance of psychic attunement work ("minds wide open").

*** If anyone knows what this Water of Life is or where to look for further clues, feel free to enlighten me. In my own culture's fairy stories, the Water of Life is used to revive the hero who has suffered a division (the Osiris pattern).

Cheers...

The Big X Factor

2011-12-11T02:43:00.000-08:00

The Cross: Mad, Bad And Dangerous To Know (1990).

From Denise le Fay:

"... I mean that many of these Dark Ones have—sorry but I can't resist using this line—seen the Light and retired from their distorted perspectives and jobs being the "Bad Guys" during the past Evolutionary Cycle. During 2011 many of them just laid down their attitudes and bad-ass selves and willingly walked into the Light! Wow... what a trip that's been!
Remember I mentioned recently that I'd been getting the symbolism of a big X lately? This big X has indicated there's polarity integration happening at higher levels. Said really simply, this big X shape I've been perceiving indicated that in 2011 many of the Dark Ones had to integrate enough Light for them to continue evolving too, or not, and be reabsorbed by Source. And if 2011 was this phase for the Dark Ones, then, unless I've misunderstood what I've perceived, 2012 is the year for the Light Ones to do the same and integrate enough Dark within themselves at the levels and dimensions they exist on now. And we down here in 3D thought it was just us having all the high drama, intensity and excitement!
All of this is so everyone everywhere is free and clear and ready for the massive Cosmic Energy Imprinting of the New Evolutionary Cycle that will come through the alignment of Earth with the Milky Way galactic center one year from now." (2011)

Ad songs: do they work?

2011-11-25T11:14:00.000-08:00

Ad songs: do they work for the product?

I heard this tune in an ad for a car brand. What happened was not opting for that car brand. Instead, I looked up the full song and discovered the singer and her work, and learned more about Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star (like for example that it was originally written by W.A. Mozart). If I were to purchase a car, I would simply seek to know what features I need, and which car is the best for me, value for money, etc. These days all brands are similar in that respect, and look the same too - so in the end it would be a bit random - I would have to "think up" another reason in order to convince myself, and I would then identify with that reason in my head. The car brands do not put enough work into creating a specific image nowadays, either - there is nothing to "participate in", even if we wanted to. They have no personality, and there are no brand fanclubs the way there used to be when the automobile first came into being. You either get very large and opulent, or tiny, nimble or eco-friendly, and no song can tip the balance between what you identify with.

As for this clip, the mythological aspect is obvious, and the ad works on the principles of a music video. What happens is that the image sold is that of a "unique" product (the girl ignores other apples and goes for the one alone that calls to her specifically, and the audience is expected to identify with the girl and go for the perfume), but the mind immediately understands that any other perfume brand could have come up with the same Adam & Eve concept (likewise, why couldn't we go for other apples, if we are clearly not that particular girl?). So the final product placement is a predictable breach in the fantasy and as such dismissed by the mind. Besides: who in our technological, rationalistic world actually believes a perfume to be an "elixir" for real? The name can then only be used as interesting, exotic-sounding, not as a means to convince of its underlying magic.
On the other hand, we get the promotion of dreams, "flying" and soulmateship through this ad. And of individuality: but IF this girl is an individual on account of this perfume ("perfume" is synonymous with "essence"), then we are individuals by doing something else...

So when watching ads, the effect they seek is often reversed. People buy the products by virtue of knowing and trusting the brands for many years, which is something much stronger than ads. Ads are often ignored, but when they are interesting, they hardly induce opting for that particular product - they are only admired as art, as finished products in themselves.

So why do people who come up with them believe that ads work the way they imagine? Their explanations often sound silly and ill-thought to me. But it's quite simple: the work they do as teams, as people who challenge one another to be more competitive, more creative, etc. gives the actual feeling of power; and it is this, not the promise of money, which keeps some people glued to working overtime. In those moments, the stress, the feverish anticipation, the imagined connection with large numbers of people (the "Market"), all combine to give a sense of being connected - part of something larger. As a result, they often assume that everyone must relate to their output in the same way. This never happens fully, however - it's more of a case of negotiation for the purpose of creating one's own image.
They say that upon hearing the song, you will then think of the brand each time. Yes, perhaps - but I swear I can't remember the brands 3/4s of the times I like a song; and when I do remember, I sense it as an intrusion on my enjoyment of the song. I get repelled, not attracted.

Music in malls has a different effect, as music we like can lower barriers and the person then feels "plentiful" and open to spending a lot.

Someone here said that we should have a subject in school called "Deconstruction of Commercials", and someone else that competition should switch from image-making to solution-making: who comes up with the best possible solution to the problems we are facing, instead of inventing problems we never had in the first place. This is something I have noted for myself: how many people realize that they are trying to solve unreal problems, problems invented by those who wanted to sell you something? Is life supposed to be a zero-balanced equation, then?

The Rite of spring, summer, autumn and winter...

2011-10-06T10:07:00.000-07:00

Yep!

She brought her to her ioyous Paradize,
Where most she wonnes, when she on earth does dwel.
So faire a place, as Nature can deuize:
Whether in Paphos, or Cytheron hill,
Or it in Gnidus be, I wote not well;
But well I wote by tryall, that this same
All other pleasant places doth excell,
And called is by her lost louers name,
The Gardin of Adonis, farre renowmd by fame.
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But were it not, that Time their troubler is,
All that in this delightfull Gardin growes,
Should happie be, and haue immortall blis:
For here all plentie, and all pleasure flowes,
And sweet loue gentle fits emongst them throwes,
Without fell rancor, or fond gealosie;
Franckly each paramour his leman knowes,
Each bird his mate, ne any does enuie
Their goodly meriment, and gay felicitie.
(Spenser's "The Garden of Adonis", ss.29-41. See s.31 for the "Double Gates" and the procedure for passing through).

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* Photo of "The Rite Of Spring" as performed by the Tokyo Ballet. But it seems such a shame to confine Love to just one season or ritual, so... let's have it all the time!
* The ladies in the scene represent "Stars", and the story depicts the time when Ishtar (Eve) introduced Soul Love to the population.

"Love is not to simply join the human flesh
Love must join the soul..."

Take That: Beam us up, Scotty!

2011-09-03T11:00:00.000-07:00

So the Orbies have something to do with Sun particles, then? Hmm.

Rapture (Nadia Ali)

2011-07-31T13:51:00.000-07:00

The connection between this video and my 1991 drawing would be the transparent glass box (a stargate) by which the Illuminatrix travels.
linked here
Coincidentally, I had a dream just a couple of nights ago, before I looked for this video since the song kept following me around - in which I was watching a new video where a woman was playing the concept of "Attraction" (Magnetic). I was arguing with people who were saying that her act showed that she was Illuminated and who were recoiling from this. I said that just because someone shows inner knowledge doesn't mean this is projected upon her from outside, it is entirely possible for a person to be self-sourced - in other words, that she shines with her own light. This would be the original meaning of the word anyway.

Having said that, it is very interesting how several returning acts seem to display inside information when returning to the stage, like they have taken it to the next level. Where do they get it from and what is happening? We shall see...

The video in which Nadia Ali models the Mercurial Cloak of the Illuminati in the form of a spandex suit - for the New Generation?

Bon Jovi in Bucharest - you twist so fine

2011-07-11T02:17:00.000-07:00

"Brothers and sisters. We have gathered here tonight to be as one."

Squee!!!

Sexy ladies during Bad Medicine

Fresh off from the Bon Jovi concert tonight... I was blown away. It's just happy smouldering embers writing this post now. Lol. After Livin' On A Prayer which brought about the golden Sacred Heart at the end (while during the show we could see a progression of the logo through the years), they finished the concert with the classic Twist And Shout!!! And I could SWEAR they said "you really got me glowing now" instead of "going" (although, if you do glow, you also go into different dimensions)! That is, the original vibe-raising song > Ahh - ahh - ahh - ahh. They put a lot of work into delivering that (and we did too!), and one time during one of the build-ups, Jon said something about 'the wisdom' - though I couldn't catch all he said. Can you?

Of course, the entire concert was very "current" from my point of view. Dry County = the Crisis. Messages like "Shine (Your Time is Now)", etc, complete with Wormhole imagery = we are the solution to it.

All in all, the essential rock concert, always nodding back to That Old Time Rock'n'Roll, which is about the Consciousness of True Love (Soul). And Love indeed I could feel, the meaning of that Bleedin' Heart and the sacrifices that it made. It all sounds very much fun in this review - a nice party (which of course it was) - but as they wisely sing, the road here was paved by the hopeless, the hungry, and the brokenhearted, and now we can all raise the Vibe. So besides being current, the show seemed to communicate a certain job having been done, worldwide, and everyone having reached this place in time.

What they don't know, however, is that our Romanian concept of their own "Blood On Blood" is very ancient, and translates as "Brothers of the Cross". This would be a very deep friendship established for the purpose of Multidimensional Travel ("crossing"), by mingling one's energy ("blood") with that of another. Then the friends would perform Fairytale duties. The Cross(ing) is that of pathways.

I had a GREAT TIME... I hope they did too, which they seemed to, by the looks of it and the lingering (over three hours and in spite of some obvious exhaustion, the July heatwave, plus it was -almost- Richie's birthday...

Beautiful guitar design
"We'll play another one for you, after all you don't have anything to do tomorrow, do you?" The show's quality never dropped one inch, though).
One of my favourite moments was when some fans gave Jon a Romanian flag printed with the name Bon Jovi, and he studied it for a moment then wrapped it around his shoulders. It usually is a 'technique' like others such as the planned encores, but it was also a rather subconscious gesture.

At the end they thanked us for patiently waiting 30 years for them, haha (yep, we get that a lot, but the timing couldn't be more right - after all, what is recognition from others, without recognition from oneself? Before, the effect would have been to depress us even further by showing us things we couldn't have, both material and spiritual - you really have to be careful, when you 'gather to be as one', what you go back to afterwards, because it can seem such a void; not so now, most of us have travelled around quite a bit and some of us do realize the truth in saying we're brothers, not idols/followers - regardless of our conditioned aspects, like wealth or career). Also, there was one instance when a part he sang came from directly within - he got really transported and the notes resonated with that double quality, thought and sound.
And not to forget when everything went dark, lights going out one by one and then KABOOM! a big flash, as they went into Always to the crowd's delight (and screaming in my ear).
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A vortexy lady in the crowd

You know you’re a twisty little girl, (twist little girl)
You know you twist so fine. (twist so fine)
Come on and twist a little closer, now, (twist a little closer)
And let me know that you're mine. (let me know you’re mine oooh)

A few more fairytale comparisons:

Light Of Earendil's Star - fractal art by Keith
Ancient legend/myth about opening a gateway to one's higher nature and becoming as a Star, e.g. "Rise, my fallen angel - shine" (Bon Jovi: Brokenpromiseland)

Fractal art by Tatooine92, capturing the relation between "shining like a diamond" and the Vortex or Wormhole

Santa Maria in Trastevere

2011-07-05T16:02:00.000-07:00

Today I was in the bookshop looking for a book on Rome's architecture I could use as reference for a project. However, I opened a travel guide to the exact page showing me a picture of the spiral pillar in Santa Maria of Trastevere (above). I have already visited Rome but this church I seem to have missed. The pillar marks what is known as a 'miraculous site', but personally it reminded me of Jack's Beanstalk (another 'Ropeway to the Sky' story), as beans have the habit of twining their modified stems around a support. Given the subject matter of my blog project, the following pictures from the church are pure amazement. (Coincidentally, I did buy a book about the international restoration/landscaping project of Brâncusi's "Endless Column Ensemble" in Târgu-Jiu, a most significant artwork for Gate Consciousness).

Stargates below...

Stargates above...

The two Masters, out of the Closet. :D

A Yahoo Wormhole

2011-06-29T13:46:00.000-07:00

So even my emails swoosh in from a Stargate? :)

Lady Gaga: The Edge of Glory (Lightbody)

2011-06-17T23:41:00.000-07:00

Squee! This is very special! It seems these are multiplying, just a moment ago I saw something called, "Michael Jackson - Behind the Mask Project", which suggests 'Disclosure' when taken on the whole.

The Glory is the Lightbody, a.k.a. putting on the White Robes. Due to a spiritual energy descending from the higher regions, technically all people are now able to access this aspect in themselves. This is very exciting.

To explain further, the video is in the same tradition as "What A Feeling" (as in FLASHdance - being a Flash or Lightbody) by Irene Cara. However, I shall introduce our local version of it, "What Is Love". Back from the days when copyright was of no consequence in this country (see, some positive aspects to the ideal of Communism, lol).
Stela Enache sings, "What is love to you? Why do you run away from it, and from me?". Apart from falling off my chair laughing at the choreography etc, I am amazed by the Syncs in place here: check out the "Stars" in the beginning and her appearing like the Purple Robed Isis, complete with golden ring and floating Orbs. And I can't believe my eyes how subvertive this video was, as you can see the attempts at portraying "The System" ("stay HERE, learn THIS, no fooling around or you get reprimanded!") being opposed by a freedom of imagination and spirituality, the "Alternative" represented by the Stage, or the "Escape" represented by the consciousness of Love. The System just allowed these things because they believed Love had no REAL power, and that dance movements were of no consequence. They censored everything else. But I find it interesting that the same lady plays both the System and Escape, both the restrictive teacher and the dreamy student... which is just another way of saying "We are doing this to ourselves". And if you look at the old logo of my country, from back then, you might notice Ishtar's Gate (not that anyone saw it as such)...

This Is Love, This Is Life

2011-06-17T22:59:00.000-07:00

This is for my friend JK.

What I see in the symbol: the Galactic Core (Sacred Heart) pierced by the Tree of Science (a.k.a Knowledge), or "Love gives you wiiiiings" by integrating painful experience and transforming it. Science is only possible through duality (the sword), and duality is what we learn in life - separation or division, which drains energy (the blood). Pure science, however, aims at the true reconnection of subject and object, by transcending (the wings) the illusion of separation and culminating into a Self-aware uni-verse.

The Particle of Love and Life presently searched for by the Stargate-building people at the respective labs. They gather that they will only find it if IT wants to be found. :D This is where things begin to get crazy, as unexpected crossovers between science, myth and metaphor take place.

Pic taken from http://philosophyofscienceportal.blogspot.com. It looks more like a Concert than lab work.

Meanwhile, here is the History of Everything (in our current understanding, which is essentially correct but with some HUGE gaps) which this Particle has made possible. So... are we Real? I guess the answer to that is, we are Real once we have recognized Love. Within. (*knock knock*)

Linkin Park: Iridescent (Transformers)

2011-06-08T15:27:00.000-07:00

IRIDESCENT, adj.
Producing a display of lustrous, rainbowlike colours; brilliant, lustrous, or colourful in effect or appearance; displaying a spectrum of colours that shimmer and change.

There is an exclamation which some of my friends and I find ourselves repeating these days, referring to videos being made: "Can it really get that obvious!". This one is no exception.
I realize many people are afraid of this so-called "Next Level" which is suggested for the Human Being (while still masked as fantasy or science fiction, or as something external/affected by external forces). I also realize that it is their decision, what they consider best for them. But from my perspective, we have set this fear in place, in order to have certain experiences. It is therefore up to us when we decide to remember, and a matter of letting go (I love it when the choir sings that!). Although I had been constantly experimenting with the feelings depicted here at 2:45, 2:55 and onwards, creating that energy bubble (my personal Stargate), I'd never understood what we were supposed to let go of - it always felt like something being taken away from us. But now that I understand we are the ones who create our own experiences, I finally agree to discard my own sadness and frustration: 'TRANSFORMERS'... :)

I offer a couple of pictures to compare with the video - as well as a nod to Gnostic information which describes the 'Machines' affecting our ability to see clearly. These 'virtual', unreal, aspects of ourselves are said to have been created when the Galactic Current first attempted to reach out into the outer darkness, but was unsure of herself. When her energy impacted these regions, she accidentally created these 'ghosts' or 'errors'. We have incorporated these into our psyche. Mankind represents the gradual realization of her true dream, however. The Galactic Current is the Electromagnetic 'Flow' which we are sometimes told to 'go with'.
I have to mention that the film Matrix (more so, its origination in the Hindu/Buddhist beliefs of the world as Maya, illusion), which at the time caused a very high level of unease in me (thought pattern: "Then everything is c**p!"), has now been fully transformed into enlightenment for me. It is no longer about everything being c**p. It is about us being amazing. But not just as the specifically human characters from the film, who are 'at war' with the Machines - more like amazing on the whole, since the Machines are also aspects of ourselves, those components that 'don't get it'. (Many other past cultural representations have likewise received the same twist in my perception - obviously a change based on my own alchemical process).

The Seven Houses binding the Duat

Note:
Many are trying to determine with accuracy which group 'owns' this information - which is useless, as it only dramatizes the mind into perceiving roles as ultimate. By perceiving roles as ultimate, one loses one's ability to perceive oneself as Multidimensional (hence 'free'). Whichever connection each group may have to the Divine, it is their own subjective interpretation, just as this is true for everyone else. This type of partial interpretation (as bound to manifested goals within the Game that we create) has no influence on the way anyone else can be personally involved with the Divine. But while it is easy for some to make it appear that they are revealing the true nature of reality to you (a role I have played on both sides), it is worthwhile to remember that this creates addiction to that so-called 'illumination'. In truth, YOU are the only Being who is revealing your true nature to yourself.

It is also worthwile to remember that, while we may get temporarily blinded by existence itself (i.e: more videos, more words, more news, to which we attach a linear 'separate' meaning as we rely on the individual 'energy snacks'), we on this Planet are actively involved in a process of Self-realization as we speak. In other words, all these activities are 'actually happening' to us, in terms of Consciousness.

Robbie Williams: Heart And I

2011-06-02T10:31:00.000-07:00

This started playing where I was shopping for my birthday party this year, and wondering about/testing a new theory on Song Sync...
I wonder whether there is a need to explain, or everyone has already experienced and thus knows well the underlying feelings in this song. There is still such a deep rift where knowledge is concerned (I worry about these young people - at their age, I tried to find out interesting things all the time, and I still did not have enough time to figure out everything I wanted to. But they do not even show signs of questioning... It's funny, because the first guy I ever fell in love with in this life was the only one at the time who seemed, to me, to have had some sort of inner life...). However, it's always nice to hear about Awakening, no matter where it comes from. "In And Out Of Consciousness":

Jack Sparrow vs. the Kraken

2011-05-09T16:53:00.000-07:00

Can it get any more obvious?! Picture from the "Pirates..." Wiki. I'm not sure whether it's supposed to be dirty or not. :D

The Pirates movies were much discussed by sync bloggers, but I am only just getting the hang of it now.

Hmmmm...
"Early accounts, including Pontoppidan's, describe the kraken as an animal 'the size of a floating island' whose real danger for sailors was not the creature itself, but the whirlpool it created after quickly descending back into the ocean..."

"Well, if you believe such things, there's a beast does the bidding of Davy Jones—a fearsome creature with giant tentacles that'll suction your face clean off, and drag an entire ship down to the crushing darkness... The Kraken. They say the stench of its breath is like...(shudders)... Imagine, the last thing you know on God's green earth is the roar of the Kraken and the reeking odor of a thousand rotting corpses. If you believe such things."
―Joshamee Gibbs to Will Turner

An interesting aside: coincidentally, I have recently seen again many of the old movies that dealt with issues like ghosts, telepathy, aliens and/or the subconscious. The films (made mostly in the '70s and '80s) now appeared VERY differently to me, and just made me smile for the most part. Especially the parts that were meant to be very scary have been transformed beyond recognition. We were all so naive back then, and that gives me a source of amusement to this very day.

Walking On The Milky Way

2011-05-01T11:00:00.000-07:00

I am posting this in honour of the Baptism of my friend's baby (now nicknamed "Cosmic Baby" by me :).
Another video about Cosmic Awareness and Soulmateship. They started quite a long while ago. Pertaining to my Stargate theme, we get a Doctor Who-type travelling box, the ferris wheel while the singer mentions "ultimate" or "divine" dissatisfaction, a cute umbrella trick, lots of Orbs and the cereal crop/Underworld reference. Plus a marked awareness of pollution vs. renewable energies (this is not just thrown in there like a statement to 'go recycle', it is an actual free energy/growth connection which ancient civilizations were based on).

Film studio logos: Sumer Antenna & Ascension

2011-04-22T16:14:00.000-07:00

Here are just two film studio logos which, for me, facilitated remembering. A more comprehensive article coming soon. The Universal animation is not a Stargate per se, but it shows rays of light (awakened consciousness) going out into Space from the continents (containers), and thus creating the perspective of a "Universal" Earth (raising the frequency). The music (brass instruments) seems to recall the Book of Revelations (trumpeting, an energy from the Sun due to the Galactic Center).

Good Jove

2011-03-26T07:30:00.001-07:00

This year I'm going to their concert. The logo of the Awakened Love from the Galactic Heart promises to make it interesting. The only question is... should I get a ticket for the Golden Circle? :D

Aerosmith "Angel" - the Guardian & the Mote (Mate)

2011-02-06T05:12:00.000-08:00

"And the ray was the Guardian Angel of the mote: not a thing interposed between God and the creature, but God's very attention itself, personalized."~~JRR Tolkien I remember many years ago, the question was, "What's an aerosmith?!". I thought that was funny. True, what is an aerosmith! There were suggestions of a kite. Nowadays, I think I have finally figured it out. And yes, it's a kite - but a very unusual one. (As a point of interest, in my native language "kite" is the same word as a "daimon" or someone who pushes you to better yourself, the happiness in transcending your limits).

Hehe, very clever to put a human-scale Aerosmith (imagine how many pictures were taken there, of people standing in an ancient stargate, the vehicle of the Angels). If we go by the Winged Disc symbol, or the Nibiru, or Fravahar, it is also funny that Steven Tyler has a daughter who played an Elf. *g*

But that hadn't happened in 1988, and it is this song, Angel, written with Desmond Child, that is my all-time favourite song/performance in their repertoir (my air guitar on this wasn't half bad!). Here is why: It is definitely a meta-performance - explaining why they are in this at all, and what it is really all about. Sure, there are suggestions of all rock artists having sold their souls to the devil for money, but I wonder what would happen if we identified a little bit, with that person who's singing his brains out onstage, invoking his Angel (or perhaps she is invoking him?). Have you never experienced the feeling? The most complete, all-encompassing Love, initiated in the stomach and travelling through the entire nervous system. That Love is what powers you to stand tall and know who you are (no devil would suggest that to you). Sure, everyone has problems and issues (rock stars even more so), but this is their way of purifying - and they also do it for the whole audience. Yes, they need the devils to stage the whole thing - but that's minor compared to its real value. So, due to this Angel who is lifting the man, he's transformed in my eyes: first, he goes back to being a child, a small boy. Then, he metamorphoses into a really, REALLY attractive man - I can see what she sees in him, as it were. And that's how these concerts work. The mind is opened to the existence of one's own soulmate, and that is why it seems so confusing at first, that it doesn't matter about age or sex, or even about what is deemed handsome or ugly - it just happens whenever you mature enough to look into it (this certainly was not the case for me in 1988), and it's not about a connection between you and the man onstage, but a parallel between the audience and the Angel he is invoking/expressing, who gives the "glory" (looking on from the top of the A-shaped Axis Mundi).

By the way, have you ever seen the sheer number of ORBS at these concerts?

The Adventures of Queen

2011-02-02T19:15:00.000-08:00

How many ways are there to tell a story? In this article, I will have a look at the multidimensional tale told about Queen's Adventures through their own visual representations. Jung teaches us that some people have direct access to the Collective Unconscious. Plato, on the other hand, stated that musicians always draw their inspiration from their own experiences through Time & Space (which includes pre- and re-incarnation states). Likewise, these concepts may not differ very much. Whichever standpoint we take, the role of the Artist has always been the initiation and continuation of self-awakening and enlightenment - understanding what we are, beyond cultural assumptions and preconceptions about "who" we are. So here are a few fascinating glimpses of that (*).

PART I - Chronological Output

The new Fan Club web banner, with a startling stargate device (re: faces at the Window), for those of us who are used to looking. Original artwork of Queen by Angela Lumley, in the style of Grandville's illustrations appearing animated in the Innuendo video. Added to this page: 2012 (Time For Miracles).

Feltham Town Centre placque, set in 2009. My photo.

Purple sleeve cover - Queen's first album, 1973. Marks the beginning of the road in the "Pop Star" role.

Freddie Mercury was a Jimi Hendrix fan, a fact that can easily connect the sleeve with Purple Haze (and then have us ask whether Prince meant a similar thing with his Purple Rain?). However, many followers simply make the cultural connection without asking what it communicates.

Trompe l'oeil - The Great Pretender video, 1987. Notice the 'wormhole' opening in the background.

The Cross (Roger Taylor), Mad, Bad And Dangerous To Know cover, 1990 - polarity integration (X), the bad guys resigning from their roles, while the good guys face their own inner darkness. This came way before the "Planet X" hype (Nibiru = Crossing Place or Ferry Boat). Quote originally referring to Lord Byron, whose Manfred poem is quite intriguing. "Dangerous" in spiritual terms refers to the energy of the higher realms, which cannot be integrated by the duality mind, so it appears as polarized extremes.

The I'm Going Slightly Mad cover, 1991. Image source. Typical Vortex Monster (the ego's fears of dissolution). I had these beautiful babies in my dreams all the time as a child, until I allowed one of them to eat me - at which point they surprisingly dissolved. Being eaten felt good, no different at all from being loved in my core.

Andromeda Galaxy in the Time Musical, 1987. Home of the "Time Lord" who looked to see what's up with Mankind. The Rock Star from Earth is taken to Andromeda during his concert, then brought back to tell people to use their Reason and be Wise - this, it's said, amounts to being in harmony with the Universe. M31's Core had not been imaged before the mid-'90s (via Hubble), and in the opinion of scientists, it is a very strange Core indeed: an elliptical ring of golden, older stars surrounds a fast-swirling disk of white hot, newly formed ones. The galaxy's name encoding recalls the origins of the "Medes and Persians" as descendants of Andromeda and Perseus. Freddie, a Persian, was a guest on the show.

Brian's tunnel of lights - Back To The Light video, 1993. Singing along or playing music lightens the mood considerably and measurably, and can show a passage out of darkness. But how does it do that?

"Searching for a clearer view" - Back To The Light video, 1993. It becomes obvious at this point that "normal" footage is used to tell "another" story (which exists on a higher level), except that it maintains the appearance of linear disconnected scenes, due to (over)familiarity with the history of the band. This "otherness" is underlined by Brian May on his album Another World (1998), where he cautions against taking things the way they seem. But how may we perceive them differently? My bet would be by using a multidimensional approach.

A big flash - Resurrection video, 1993.

The Freddie Mercury statue in Montreux, unveiled 1995. The temporary ferris wheel installation creates an interesting mandorla.

The Queen Heaven Laser Show, 2001 (concept: Brian May, Dieter Schwab, Markus Steblei)- promo brochure and some special effects scenes. I recommend the original opening where Brian May plays a Creator and kindles stars in a thoroughly gripping imaginary recreation of the Big Bang. The show premiered in Munich, but the Vienna Planetarium logo is even more intriguing: the ancient Conjunction symbol represents conscious Cosmic Travel.

Projection of the handwritten lyrics for A Winter's Tale. As all Press reactions hyperemphasized a concept of Freddie Mercury's "revival" or "resurrection", this show has formed the initial basis of many of my own studies into the concept of artistic enchantment and the interrelationship of secondary and primary belief - the inner workings of "Magic".

There were often references to SciFi, such as this wormhole-creating interdimensional travelling device reminiscent of Contact (starring Jodie Foster as a Scientist who experiences a cognitive limitation dilemma).

Orb and funnel-like portals

Last Horizon download link, 2004 - BrianMay.com

Galaxy and strings - Lover of Life/Singer of Songs original website, 2006 (Freddie's imaginary 60th birthday; these observances have implied a multidimensional concept since 1992-1993, but in a sense they also deny it - depending on one's interpretation). The legendary Perfected Souls are described in ancient writings as travelling in light form (i.e. "beaming") from the Galactic Centre to various locations.

Ring and strings - Lover of Life/Singer of Songs original website. See Discovery programs like Through the Wormhole etc. for easier explanation of Strings Theory and hypothetical circular device.

A Star in one of the two imaginary constellations, LoL or SoS - Lover of Life/Singer of Songs original website (reveals message from fan when clicked). The stars are found in a purple nebula ("cloud"). Clouds, mists or smoke play a special role in stories of multidimensional beings, because they are indicators of impending materialization (coalescing).

Transition (one's aura turning from purple to translucent, during which the person feels like they are literally going through Death but without actually dying) is a spiritual activation of the Lightbody (to the ancient Egyptians: a new Star, of the company of RA. "Horus among them pulls on their hearts").

Split-screen effect: the presenter steps into the violet Q then leaves his image there and approaches the camera. The presentation for the "Stormtroopers in Stilettos" exhibition talks about a different image, or "the truth behind the glam". The first such use of the Q appeared in 1992:

Wonder - Brian May playing Bijou duringthe Cosmos Rocks Tour, 2008. The eye represents a "door to a dream world". It would appear that the Heaven-voyant person (indicated by the red/blue iris) sees something that shines or glows, which is answered shortly:

Way in: spiralling...

... way out: doors-within-doors - Multidimensionality.

PART II - Interesting Collective Responses

Mme Tussaud's: memorial to Farrokh "Freddie Mercury" Bulsara. The nickname Freddie was given by the kids in India. "Fred" means "Elf or Magical Counsel" when derived from Old English Alfred, which seems more appropriate than the Germanic Frederick. He chose the stage name Mercury after the Faerie Queen he referred to as his Mother (religious advisor) in a song suggesting the multidimensional history of England.

Freddie Mercury, a modern day poet-fairy

Image source

The Epic of Gilgamesh informs us that one of the essential duties of kingship was to make a written record of one's spiritual experiences, from which the people of the respective city could benefit. Thus, good behaviour was judged on the basis of return and sharing, regardless of having won or lost on the quest. Taking off and never being heard of again was considered poor behaviour. Pharaohs in Egypt dream-travelled in their astral body and reported what they saw of the Cosmos. Their experiences were believed to carry information about what happens after death, but also to contain explanations for various aspects of life.

Innuendoes, with Freddie Mercury & Queen

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(*) This article about Queen focuses especially on those aspects which relate to the overall concept of this website. Sometimes it is complete, and other times it is still a work in progress. It is aimed primarily at myself and at those with some knowledge about the subjects I touch upon, but if you want more info about anything you find here, you can leave me a note at the bottom of the page.

Hollywood is dead

2011-01-29T04:31:00.000-08:00

In an article I wrote, MJ, Lightbodies and the Stargate Miracle, I made the comparison between Hollywood stars and the Egyptian religion of the Sun. But after a while I began wondering if I was on the right track? Then... I saw this.

Michael Buble meets a version of himself as a Rockstar in the official video of "Hollywood" (Stage 33). Prominent Sun logo (Oriental version). His animal-print pants also remind of the Egyptian word "fetish".

This brings a smile to my face, especially the final "role" that he sees himself in (an Astronaut, ref: Anunnaki>Stars), before finding his true life. I find it interesting that he sings about a girl, his lover who wants to be a star, but the video is about versions of himself and dismissing these images. This in turn works for showing a message that comes from "within", through that two-way, personal connection to "what is true".

The song points to a classic Tarot sequence: the main character (the human being) goes through 24 Roles before finally understanding that "keep on loving what is true, and the world will come to you - you can find it in yourself". Hollywood is dead. And Roman soldiers on bicycles are very funny.

Back to the '90s for a bit

2011-01-24T03:39:00.000-08:00

Wikipedia has a great comprehensive article about the Axis Mundi, or Navel of the World, which is also the title of this song by Jovanotti. I was very aware of it in the 1990s, and I'm happy to rediscover it at this point when I better understand why they are throwing flags up at a classical sky portal, and so on... :)

The Vorticists exhibition

2011-01-24T03:12:00.000-08:00

This is very interesting in many ways, one of which is the question "why the sudden interest?".
http://www.nasher.duke.edu/vorticists/

Michael Jackson: Doing All We Can

2011-01-13T18:40:00.000-08:00

Spot the Stargates (as doors, flashes, bursts of light, bursts of colour, the Lightbody, the Rainbow Body, and twirling) and try to see why they are there.
I am happy that this video was made - we sure need to wipe the grit from our eyes and see that Alternative, see the Luminous Beings that we are. It's time...

Also see what Michael was saying in his This Is It, title song for his posthumous album.

This is it, here I stand
I’m the light of the world, I feel grand
Got this love I can feel
And I know - yes for sure - it is real...

Romanian Day in Ireland

2010-12-01T15:10:00.000-08:00

Today (Dec. 1st) was Romania's National Day. It didn't start off so good, with the phenomenon called "freezing rain" (which is very rare around these parts) making a spectacular entrance, followed by floods... and also the Military Parade, which I can hardly see the appeal of in the 21st century (except for humanitarian missions, but you don't need missiles for those!).

But it closed in a cheerful manner, of which I was infinitely pleased: I heard of an unusual show in Ireland, involving their national orchestra. A composer has put to music the lyrics from our "Merry Cemetery" headstones (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merry_Cemetery) - linking our two cultures across time and space, and performing the songs with the help of the choir format. A Pixie-looking girl from the Irish audience said, "Teens should listen to more music like this". The composer described it as an "Adventure". Another description of it explained how the lyrics bring those people into the present.

Now THAT was something I felt like celebrating today (the connection with Ireland being something so deeply intuitive within me, that I get high whenever anything like this happens in reality) - although I can see the connection isn't known, i.e. they are not two different cultures at their root. Catch the Stargate Crosses! But perhaps this is where I come in...

Cosmic Love - spectacular video

2010-11-20T08:02:00.000-08:00

This is a SPECTACULAR video from Florence & The Machine, I like it very much. The lyrics present a wonderfully precise depiction of what Cosmic Love entails, which makes me wonder what inspired them. The song was also featured on The Vampire Diaries, which furthers the connections between the modern vampire concept and stargates (it all goes back to Osiris as an underworld figure). I like things like this, showing the point of view of someone who falls in love cosmically: cosmic love is a "transgression" that, once accepted, is quite uplifting...

An interesting detail is the the maple leaf - less known as a symbol of love. However, earlier this year I had a dream where it represented just that - this video now being the only place I know where it does the same.

Therion

2010-10-31T15:03:00.001-07:00

Apparently these Swedish guys are very popular here and that's why they are returning for another concert.
I don't listen to any heavy metal, but these graphics grabbed my eye today (because of the Theta-connection). A quick search reveals that they were inspired by Nordic mythology, and this has become entirely Christopher Johnsson's project, who is into a type of "dark and confused spiritual realm, which he completely owns up to, however". Good on him.

I don't see this going any further with me, but I'll just do a quick research as an exercise. I do know most of those references. And no, it may be dark but it isn't necessarily confused (one's own judgment of it can be), and the lyrics are not "difficult to penetrate" - they're straightforward listings of occultist concepts. When I say occultist concepts, I mean "the way the occultist inteprets that which is". (The suffix "ism" means that you commit yourself to a particular way of seeing and interpreting information. However, the same reality may be encountered by other groups, who will present it in a different light).

Romanian Fairytales & Mircea Cãrtãrescu

2010-10-17T02:48:00.000-07:00

I have discovered that Romanian culture has a distinct involvement with Stargates, expressed first and foremost in the belief that the land itself is a so-called "Mouth of Heaven", as in being found on the borderline between dimensions (sensing this opening into another realm). These are the most recent clues I've come across.

Fairytales of the Romanians, book series sale ad:

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And Mircea Cãrtãrescu says that "life as something between birth and death, surrounded by nothingness" is a mindframe we need to overcome: life is a larval or pupal stage, which enables us to then "take the gate to Universal life".

This is very interesting as it also recalls Mihai Eminescu's explanation of "genius" as someone who already has a Passport in life, to this Universal life. Note that this is not about 'rewards' or 'punishments', but about what the human individual does from within - affinities, attractions, and the way the soul is diligent in following his own path.

More recently, people have started noticing that through the work of Poets, what is called "scientific knowledge" is being transmitted - even before certain principles are discovered as part of 'Science'. This is certainly a field I'd like to explore more in the future: how can a poet know how the Universe was formed, for example, without any scientific training, and then have his ideas confirmed by later ages?

Michelangelo's Piazza del Campidoglio

2010-10-17T02:06:00.000-07:00

In my previous post, I mentioned Vivaldi's Andromeda Liberata. Now I will go further back in time to the Renaissance, whencefrom we get most of our modern concepts from (such as individuality, etc). Someone showed me a picture of Michelangelo's design for the ideal town square - explaining that, in those days, architects began to dream of ideal cities in the shape of octagons, pentagons and so on. (It is a shame really that this is viewed as limited to the Western society, since the idea of mandala-shaped cities is very prominent in Asia, of course. In my personal view, however, I do not sense why these Platonic, geometrical city shapes would be internally important. Even walking in a geometrical garden, there is a contradiction, not an expression, of natural principles and flow. You know it should be a square, but you just can't see it. The only place it makes sense is from above - an aerial view. Perhaps they were made to be admired from Space? Feel free to disagree, and let me know if you can make out the connection to an internal effect on the geometrical city's inhabitants... other than "We all live inside a perfect octagon and you do NOT! HA!").

When I saw this image of Michelangelo's town square, I had a very distinct reaction, that of accessing Other Sight. The psyche gives way to something wider, and thus relates to something that escapes everyday, directed scrutiny. Spiders create their webs, beavers build their dams, bees their hexagonal tubes, snails their perfectly spiral-shaped shells, etc - humans are also capable of amazing architecture.

We are, however, "symbologically" conscious of that which we create - and this symbol-consciousness sometimes obscures the wider implication of the symbols we use. For example, it is generally explained that Michelangelo wanted to portray the 12 constellations and even the Omphalos Stone, in his design (in his attempt to connect Italian identity to Etruscan culture). But explaining it this way tones down and encages the profound impact that these realities (constellations, Omphalos Stone) might have on perception. It is much easier to see them as artifacts in history, and get only their "legacy" value, rather than interact with them anew. Once we have named something, we think we have understood it. But how did the Omphalos Stone actually work? What do we really know about the workings of the minds of historical (and prehistoric) men? (I think there are a number of books on this very interesting subject, how the mind layers time, the spirit within things, and our fascination/horror with stories about "reactivation" of lost artifacts).

Michelangelo's involvement with such a concept can therefore be relegated to the level of the Ego (outer meaning), where he is entirely conscious of what his design "means" (the purpose he has imagined for it, a purpose which is entirely bound to his historical and political context). This, however, doesn't explain why his design ends up resembling the Native American "dream-catchers" (inner meaning), or our modern understanding of Relativity and Astronomy. And it doesn't say why this looks precisely like a Vortex or Wormhole grid, as it is understood by modern scientists.

Viewed this way, the issue of placing a statue of a Roman emperor in the middle star (which apparently went against Michelangelo's wishes) is certainly interesting. We tend to think of Roman emperors as people who were obsessed with order and who tended to plagiarize every culture they conquered, but some of them did ask a lot of questions: about themselves, the world, about what we're supposed to be doing here, and why they were found in such a demanding role.

B.o.B & Hayley: "Airplanes", Andromeda & Muses

2010-09-28T12:16:00.000-07:00

Catch Bobby Ray's orbs, and Hayley playing the role of a Paranormal Phenomenon, haha. I think this is one of the most original ways I've ever seen this concept depicted in, and I really liked it: do you see the moving, living entity through still photographs? Wonderful. I think it describes our condition perfectly (and wouldn't it make her the Light?)

"I could use a dream, a genie or a wish" - you forgot: how about a fairy? ;)

By me:

By Corina:
I was struck by the similarities between these two drawings, because we had never looked at each other's work before, and because we both refer to the respective Muse of poets who were burdened by their fame - which in turn resonates with Airplanes above.
The Muses are Fairy women because they are visualized in the 4th dimension (the famous "wings" are symbolic of the soul's ability to fly the Cosmic Flight; they are not --as some people also believe about Angels-- wings of the body...).

Let me show you something...

Antonio Vivaldi: Andromeda Liberated (A Venetian Serenade). In those days, when you said "Concert", this is what people would understand by it, and would attend it just as we attend Pop concerts nowadays. It seems that Andromeda was burdened by her "fortune", which was the only thing her "admirer" saw - as opposed to Perseus (ancestor of the Persians) who saw her for who she was (another kind of "treasure"). The figure of the Monster (Vortex) is set to devour her if she is not liberated from this form of materialism.
Aria 14: Con dolce mormorio [6:03] (Cassiope)
Recitativo 17: Perseo, che tardi più [1:17] (Daliso)
Duo: Sposo amato / Cara sposa [3:23] (Andromeda & Perseo)
Coro 3: Riconosc'in voi [2:31] (Daliso)
Andromeda: Simone Kermes (soprano)
Perseo: Max Emanuel Cencic (countertenor)
Cassiope: Katerina Beranova (soprano)
Daliso: Mark Tucker (tenor)

The Freedom Train: why a train?

2010-09-26T00:41:00.000-07:00

I have been wondering why some references to a "Freedom's Gate" in culture have taken on the form of a Train. This is one of the things which cannot be an ancient symbol per se. So how did it enter Consciousness?

a) Why can't it be simply a train, and does it have to be a Stargate reference?
It depends on how this train interacts with the rest of its environment, and how it is framed. And in all these cases, it does act as a Symbol - being in the centre of attention, and a vehicle for certain feelings & emotions to do with a change in perspective, an escape from limitations, etc.
b) Maybe all of these people are just referencing each other?
It is possible, especially in this day and age of speedy information. But even so, the question remains "who was first?" and "what was behind THEIR specific way of framing the symbol?" - and why do we keep getting all these "Freedom" trains (which obviously do work separately, on each individual level where they are referenced)?

I think the answer may lie in American history - the abolishing of slavery, in particular. I was pointed to this answer by the story of the song Rock Island Line, about the train which smuggled slaves to freedom.
Likewise, Martin Luther King Jr. held his speech about using Faith to carve a tunnel in the mountain of despair.

The Symbol of the Train is not used just to escape one condition, but also to visit others: think of the Hogwarts express, for example, taking the students of Magic to another dimension where they are to be trained.

It is also a symbol of the Inevitable.

A variation of the Train would be the Underground or Subway (affectionately called Tube in London), which is even closer to symbolizing Stargates (which are supposedly tubes): it quickly connects different places in the city.

Happy birthday Bilbo and Frodo Baggins

2010-09-22T17:58:00.000-07:00

Nephew Frodo & uncle Bilbo Baggins, Stargate dudes extraordinaire!*

Here is a song in honour of the journey which begins at this time: Sissel, Pokarekare Ana (a World War I love song redone with Maori and Norwegian lyrics). Watch this space for the full explanation of the New Zealand Maori synchronization with Celtic beliefs.

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* Ralph Bakshi animation, 1978: I like this picture very much because, regardless of whether or not we've imagined the characters to look like this, I feel it expresses their "spirit" exactly. It also expresses a curiosity I notice time and time again: films made in the '60s and '70s (but not limited to those time periods) are incapable of transcending their respective current hairstyles, no matter that they are films about an ancient world, the 1700s, the 1920s, or a Space-age future: the same fashions are invariably "back in style"! Of course, this is only if we take it literally. Figuratively speaking, I believe it serves as a nod to certain things in our culture which, thus displaced, are re-examined in a new light.

I also like the picture because it reminds me of the book's funniest indirect physical characterizations (i.e. through the words of another character): "I've made an imitation of your head with a brown woollen mat, Mr. Baggins".

Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman

2010-09-21T13:07:00.000-07:00

Where I am, this show premieres on the Science channel on 4 October (the day I go back to school, amusingly!). I wonder if it's because they 'heard' me rant on how the Discovery Channel never seems to update our scientific 'climate' accordingly.

Morgan: dweller of the sea, enchanter, the edge of the sea

Freeman: a person awarded or inheriting the freedom, with any attached privileges, of a borough or city; a man who is not a slave or serf

Mika's star tunnels

2010-09-17T10:36:00.000-07:00

Here are some of Mika's stargates!

Happy Ending (above): he ascends to a higher plane in a dream, sees the light, while the hands indicate the tunnel through which he can find "a little bit of love" and escape feeling "as if he's wasting".

In Love Today, he plays a very self-infatuated character (or perhaps someone who believes too much in the 'self-help' attitude). Love and attention (the 'heaven's light') are projected on a screen behind him, but there is somewhat of a disconnection.

Back to Happy Ending, there is also a highly significant scene, recalling Michelangelo's Creation of Adam and suggesting that this is about achieving God-consciousness (even though, as Deepak Chopra says, we feel that in the aftermath of Ecstasy/Glory, there is "ho happy ending" and we are abandoned. He says it is important to then follow the spiritual clues).

Bon Jovi: The Circle

2010-08-27T03:31:00.000-07:00

I bought this on impulse when it came out... and never listened to it. I resonate with When We Were Beautiful. Also check out their G20 performance* of Livin' On A Prayer: the circled dot is prominent.

I do need to point out something which seems to be a common trait in these "gate travels": there's usually four characters (who appear bonded in friendship). No idea why four, exactly?

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* pointed out by synchromystic blogger @ Centreportal.

The Faerie Gateway (dream)

2010-08-25T08:15:00.000-07:00

This was a dream-travel sequence from five years ago:

The next sequence began. I looked up at the stars through the branches of trees. An inner voice said the star cluster was the Pleiades. As I focused on one, more prominent star, it began to spiral slowly. This had quite a hypnotic effect which played on my sense of balance. I felt a tingling of excitement as I realized something was going to happen to me. I tried to calm my emotions as I knew they would project me out of what was being initiated. I surrendered to the star's motions and found that it had taken me through to another reality. As I looked back down and around me again, I was the same - but the landscape had changed.

I was in a fir forest, at evening time. I heard singing voices coming from nearby, and soon a few People met me, carrying lanterns. I could hear their voices inside my head. They gave me information, such as the fact that what to us was a modern Pop song had actually been taken out of Faerie a long time ago. If we listened to the words and the effects the words spoke of, we would recognize it, they said.

We were on a wooded ridge, surrounding a lower area. The People attempted to gently lure me to a nearby 'welcome' area (I could see the projection of a house), but I told them I wanted to see what was beyond those Mountains in the distance. They explained that it was too far away for me to attempt that journey at that time, and that there were also obstacles like water which I could not swim. They then offered to show me something, and we went down to the valley.

There was a big, luminous Tree. The People said to stick around, because the Tree was 'just about to do something'. Indeed it did, it bloomed and I was struck by intense awe and wonder. It drew me closer and I realized this was another threshold. I opened my arms in acceptance - as I did this, I was pulled into a much more energetic ride than the way by which I had come in. With a breath that felt like my first intake of air after having learned to breathe underwater, I woke up in my bed. I exclaimed, "WOW!"

The 'energetic ride' happened through a tunnel exactly like the one shown below. There are many animations of 'wormholes', but I chose this one for its amusing annotation ("I saw this in my dream")... Seems I'm not the only one merrily tobogganing there!

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* Picture: "The White Tree" by Gunvor Paludan

The Freddie Mercury Star(gate), Feltham

2010-08-25T03:09:00.000-07:00

The Freddie Mercury Star(gate), set up in Feltham in November 2009.
I especially like the Alchemical colours and the obvious Circled Dot (pentagon) with a "heart of gold".

This has a few differences from what a usual Hollywood-type star looks like. There are numerous elements which can be looked up to see what they say to you. But here is a basic description of the 'milieu' or location as it was when I visited:
This is a commercial 'town centre', and the star's location is bordered by such shops as: Peacock's, Risky, and Subway.

"Within this union of metals there was the assumption that the based metal dies and the more precious one was resurrected. Or it was thought to come back as a thing of many colors, sometimes described as a peacock's tail".

One commercial board stated:

"Your Sight is Precious. 20% off Transition Lenses."

So do we have to get our Glasses on, to better perceive Transition? Then of course there is Gladstone Avenue. And there was one intriguing road sign!

Alf King under fives centre

Did anyone say Five? (Anyone remember this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIV2SkMwesU "As long as Five bring the Four, Queen bring the Rock" - where did that come from? I seem to recall a rock is also a word for diamond...)

The relationship of two to three, in harmonical proportion, gives a tone which was not a likeness of one, but a tone which presents a new and powerful relationship to one. As such, five is called the first universal number. [...] The Star was the Egyptian symbol for both destiny and the number five. The ideal of the realized man was to become a star, and to become one of the company of Ra. [sailing with him in the Ark of Millions of Years]
The five-pointed stars were the homes of departed souls, as confirmed in the Unas Funerary Texts (known as the Pyramid Texts):
Lines 886-9: I am a soul ... I (am) a star of gold... and Here I am, O Ra, I am your son, I am a soul ... a star of gold...
Line 904: be a soul as a living star...

But perhaps a distinct synchronicity was the song that was on in one of the shops:

Honey Ryder: Rising Up

We’re rising up, we’re rising up
Caught up in the flames
We’re fired up, we’re wired up
Don’t get in our way
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Usually when I travel I like to find out the underlying concepts in placenames (names and words being the 'doorways' they are). I was not disapppointed by where it took me this time!

London & Luton: associated with Lú/Lug/Lugh/Lugus (Celtic god & High King - of the Elves? His name implies a "Flash of Light" which is common to all tales of such beings)

Hounslow: hill or mound associated with Hundi, the Anglo-Saxon pagan:

"... the pre-Christian Anglo-Saxons believed in seven realms. The Anglo-Saxons referred to the realm humans live on as Middangeard (which was cognate to the Old Norse Midgard), and also to a realm called Neorxnawang, corresponding to the Christian idea of Heaven. ... in the Crist poem, there is a mention of Earendel, which may have been a name of the morning star, identified in the poem with John the Baptist (who heralds the coming of the Christ as the morning star heralds the Sun). Various scholars, such as Brian Branston and Clive Tolley have suggested that the pagan Anglo-Saxons held a belief in a world tree, similar to the Norse concept of Yggdrasil, though there is no solid evidence for this. The Anglo-Saxon concept corresponding to fate was wyrd, although the "pagan" nature of this conception is subject to some debate." (Wikipedia)

Feltham: homestead where mullein grows, or "open land"

Artistic Trio Sync

2010-08-20T07:37:00.000-07:00

Synchronicity experienced in early 2009, bringing together one song, one written vignette, and one painting. By travelling between these three artistic creations (each representing a different medium), it is possible to highlight the entire corpus of information about a Stargate's "modus operandi" (Electromagnetics).

I. Beyonce Knowles: Halo

II. The Lord Of The Rings: As The Soul Flies Upward (fan fiction)

"He lifted me, and suddenly I was flying.
Upward, called by a refining fire, the flame that would tell me who I was.
Who HE was.
No longer a thing of dirt, I found my newly sprouted wings, golden ones that watered me, fed me, burned for me. The scorching ground was only a vivid nightmare in the Time of the Soaring. My wings were my shield, my sword, my armor, stronger than the ones who had fallen away in some manner I could only feel beneath me, see with the eyes of my heart.
For a moment, hell cooled."

III. Theresa Lucero: Strength Is A Phoenix

2009 Take That "Circus" Tour Stargate

2010-08-06T16:49:00.000-07:00

"Relight my fire, your love is my only desire..."

Take That's "Circus" Tour in 2009 featured a VERY prominent Stargate in the stage design.

Hold Up A Light talks of how we access another world through following our favourite stars onstage, because we identify with "hope in love" (symbolized by the light). A Star (or Circus Actor) is someone who channels and makes visible our private desires. But a "Star" always has a "Gate" behind him. An Idol is a focal point for our attention, but behind this Mirror Image is always that inner passion which inspires us all equally. The imagery is of creating a Bridge between this world and the world of Ideals. In a world where there is escalating fear that the media is imprisoning our minds, this is a very welcome different perception which raises consciousness significantly, by explaining this experience as a mutual contract of co-creation and collective learning. The Stargate shows a tunnel of Orbs.

Here more references are made to "Ruling the World", i.e. establishing order co-creatively. The Stargate shows a Jewel (Holy Grail). Fireworks usually represent the onset of Cosmic Consciousness.

The Jewel blazes out its light so its shape is not clear, but in some videos there is a fleeting glimpse caught of its shape when the light is gentled, which is this. It can be traced as the shape of the mystical "Seat of the Soul". :)

"The Stars are coming out tonight, for you..."

The concept of "the stars are coming out tonight, for you" was embodied in a very personal experience of mine, in very similar wording. I was very surprised to find this inspiring a pop performance almost 10 years after, which holds the exact same message as my experience. This meaning centers on this word-play of Star, which studied deeper leads to the description of the Egyptian Underworld/Afterlife (and beside Egyptian, it is also Greek and Celtic, and Maori).

This experience was a dream. At first it was a nightmare, I was very angry with the demise of someone who had been a famous pop star. Somehow, within that frame I could not escape (which was symbolized by a basement), appeared a stairway and a figure dressed in white robes. He was like and unlike the famous person. He asked me to climb up the stairs. It was difficult, but I did, and found myself on his own level. This felt very strange. He said to look past him, and see the stars come out just for me. And that's what happened. The negativity then diffused, and I flew off the top of the stairs. I woke up and wrote a poem about enlightenment, and - once I found the Internet - shared it.

As these things go, they happen to you once but it takes years to decode them, while you keep thinking about them. Though I feel that nowadays I have come to understanding:

We are all the same, because of our Divine Spark. A modern Star or Idol, someone we admire and look up to, acts like the Sun ("a star so bright, you blind me..."). But the Stars will come out from beyond, in that moment of individual clarity, when we are no longer blinded and we See.

And the stars, which come out just for you, are real. What I accessed in that dream was our dawning Cosmic Vision, a psychic network which plays a significant part in all our ancient myths.

Evermore: Light-Beings and True Love

2010-08-06T09:23:00.000-07:00

I found this while in New Zealand. Band Evermore took their name from the Led Zeppelin song title "The Battle of Evermore". It seems they like the Circled Dot too.

There is also the expanded Circled Dot which represents Vibration, in their concept video 'Never Let You Go' directed by Nash Edgerton & Spencer Susser - based around wording puns and old 1940s 'newsreel' type clips (which in itself sends to communication theories).

And, below, a very nice song which, being about transformation (into a Being of Light), again reprises the Circled Dot. At the time of stumbling across this song, I was studying Transfiguration matters for the first time (not of Jesus, but of people who were experiencing it for the first time; Jesus seems to be already in-the-know, as he says "do not be afraid" and can easily move between human and Cosmic light-body). Lyrically speaking, "I" and "You" always refer to the Soul relationship, and each individual listener identifies with the lyrical "I". When you place all your feelings into the words, and push them out as air or sing along, you realize this Soul relationship. Therefore, here my studies matched the premise of the song/video: that a person may not correctly perceive their own "Aura" of Light, focusing on the negative feelings caused by spiritual growth. And in this case, the one who truly loves that person can see her destination and tries to open this vision for her, so that she understands she is shining from within once she overcomes her fear.

2010 Tour posters: Aerosmith & AC/DC

2010-08-03T06:48:00.000-07:00

Aerosmith and AC/DC 2010 tour posters.

Eurovision 2010: Playing with Fire

2010-08-03T03:33:00.000-07:00

Paula Seling & Ovi with double piano, Golden Ring set design, and Wormhole screen graphics.
Lyrics formulas:
Girl/Boy standard role-prison (Ego) fought against. Challenge/No Relent dynamics (irrestistible force/immovable object); "Fire", rhyming with "burning desire" (as usual!); "Taking us higher" - raised consciousness; "Could it be just a dream?" - as in "is this really happening".

Voipici: An Individual Connection

2010-06-01T20:12:00.000-07:00

"Wake-Up Exercises For Little Kittens", France, 2007*

The time was the 1980s, an Eastern European, Communist country. This means we had no tv or radio to bring us news from "the outside". Such things were considered "subversive", a threat to the system. No-one was allowed to see, hear or read anything that implied the world could be any different. Thinking for oneself was dangerous. But most people created their own isolated inner sanctuaries, and got by. Nowadays, I admire many of them very much, for living their artistic dream during such a difficult time.

I was around 4 years old and I loved to draw and paint. My earliest deliberate "creations" consisted of filling up entire sheets of paper with brushes of different colours interwoven until there was no more white showing between. This was my eager response to the suggestion that "a true painting leaves no white space" (as opposed to a drawing, which must have white space complementing the drawn elements).

One day I sat down and, very deliberately, established a black dot on paper, and then carefully circled it. I was very pleased. "What is that?", asked my parents. "It is a Voipici...", I answered.

A Voipici [voy-`pitch]

The image above is, of course, the universalized version of the Circled Dot. I do not have the original drawing now (though I do have the subsequent development of the Voipici - seen below). I must explain how I perceived this act: to me, the circled point on the paper was a real place. The fact that I had put it there made it into a "door". It was also a creature - it was alive, hence giving it an imaginary Species name. I wanted to convey the feeling that this was something benign and very funny; but I also wanted others to realize what it was, without asking me (self-evidence).

More of these Voipici started appearing afterwards, varying from the simple to the complex (by the way, given the nature of my native language, the name Voipici is both singular and plural). This, for example, is still a Voipici. [x]

(to be continued)

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* I loved the French children's book-cover because the "visionary" morning exercise implied there was also a spiritual pun in this "waking up". Coincidentally, one of my nicknames is Little Kitten.

The Alphabet Doorway

2010-06-01T19:04:00.000-07:00

"I am glad that it was through me that you discovered your Red Fire", a friend of mine once told me.
Why this person (who has had no interest in the worlds of symbolism beyond what I brought to the table) would choose the term Red Fire, I am yet to figure out. Many people in my country seem to know things intuitively, and hold on to ancestral idioms even if this is not a conscious choice. She was referring to having indirectly caused one of my initiations. The way these work for me is they cause a psychological uproar which keeps me glued to my path of finding out about spiritual truths. Another word for it is obsession, which is a negative energy I have nevertheless learned how to use for receiving large quantities of information within a short period of time. This in turn balances me out to the point where the obsession fades out, and I have my spiritual truths.

But back then I had not yet seen the ancient symbol for "Red Fire", and I did not look it up for a long while. That changed, however, with my purchase in 2006 of a New Zealand locally-made, paua inlay pendant which attracted me. I interpreted the circular opening within the solid triangle as a female energy within a male-dominated perspective. I then began to look further into it, and the results were quite amazing.

Here we can see how the symbol, if we take just the triangle and circle, represents the alchemical Fire and Water, respectively. The union of these is called the Secret Fire, which is also known by other names that try to suggest its ambiguous nature: Watery Fire, Fiery Water, etc.
But also notice how the two shapes are actually the Greek letters Delta and Omicron (I will also explore a connection of the latter with Theta).

What we know today as the Greek Alphabet was derived from the Phoenician one, replacing three previous writing systems for versions of the "Greek" language: Linear A, Linear B and the Cypriot syllabary. The Phoenician letters are ideograms, having evolved into both hieroglyphs and the modern phonetic-only alphabet. Here it is, as found on phoenician.org:

My letters therefore stand for "Door" and "Eye". (As a point of amusement, the "Camel" following right after "Door" reminds me of Jesus' quip, "It is easier for a camel to pass through the Eye of the Needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven").

In his book The Spell of the Sensuous - Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World, David Abram highlights a process whereby humans lost touch with nature and thus began feeling "exiled" by becoming overly involved with abstract thinking, to the detriment of direct sensory experience. This was brought about through the powerful magic of writing, which works by displacing attention - from the world around us to a world of ideas. However, he says, while the letters were still largely pictures of animals, elements, etc, writing still reminded people of interconnectedness, rather than creating an illusion of separation within a linear and ever more fragmented (specialized) perception.

In Tarot, the two letters stand for the Empress (Daleth) and the Devil (Ayin), respectively - though it is worth remembering that these Roles are never what they appear to be.
Note: this decoding seems to reverse the male & female forces I had perceived in the beginning, embodied in the symbol. Or, more precisely, the perception of the truly dominant and the truly submissive aspect is turned on its head. Here we find that the male "genius" (also known as a demon or devil), while perceived as a freak occurrence with no connection to anything else in existence, has his true source in the subtle creative "muse" whose reign is supreme (also known as Nature). The role of the devil is to challenge all preconceptions which cause stagnation.

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Alfons Mucha: Halo

2010-06-01T18:20:00.000-07:00

Alfons Mucha is my favourite designer. He identified with the Czech nation although his most famous work was achieved in Paris. He is best known for his Art Nouveau commercial work featuring beautiful women who pose against stylized backgrounds represented by elaborate halos.
He lived in a time characterized by an extraordinary impulse in society to learn the science of persuasion, alongside numerous developments in the study of psychology and spirituality. Much of our modern communication media was developed in that time: the use of ads, posters, packaging, titles and by-lines is essentially unchanged.

But Mucha wanted to use these tools for a different purpose: he was a very spiritual and religious person and he infused his work with the ideals that he held. This was not obvious to people in his time: they criticized him for "selling out", saying that this went against his spirituality and that his non-commercial work is the only valuable one he produced. On the other hand, his non-commercial work was also heavily criticized for other reasons - especially his work depicting the Slavic people's spiritual origins as he saw them.

At present, through the work of surviving members of Mucha's family in terms of books and exhibitions, his true intentions were brought to light and we can get a better understanding of how he made his designs work, and of how the separate areas he explored actually make one whole: 'selling' Awakening instead of material goods.

I would like to concentrate on "The Mucha Woman" and propose a connection with new scientific data which holds that the world... is a simulation.

This theory was developed through the study of subatomic particles.

[to be continued]

F.A.Q.

2010-06-01T01:07:00.000-07:00

On this page I try to answer a few of the questions I have come across in relation to the overall information/theory in this blog. You can add to these Q&A by sending me yours, or ask for more clarification on answers already posted.

Definitions and reasons for terms I use:
Stargate: generic term describing the concept of spiritual doors, windows, or any other passage which connects one form of reality to another (one state of being to the next).
Sync: short for synchronicity, a term coined by C.G. Jung to describe events/phenomena which are grouped together by the subjective meaning their proximity evokes in the onlooker, rather than by the usual cause-effect relationship. Synchronicity (as an explanatory principle) is the usual way of looking at the world in the Native American culture, as well as being scientifically explained in the I-Ching (Jung's original source).
Nowadays, this explanatory principle is being rediscovered. I was initiated into the experience at 17, when I took off with it in an enthusiastic way. Since then, I have been bumping into lots of different people from around the world who are converging on this path.

Questions and Answers:
1. Is it coincidence, human-made, or is there a higher power?
2. Aren't you reading too much into things, and doesn't that impair your ability to enjoy them?
3. Do you think it's possible for imagination (which you make extensive use of) to be misleading? Isn't it better to be realistic?
4. "I don't buy this a-causal mysticism thing. You forget about manipulation. That's the only reason things appear to 'synchronize'."
5. You use a lot of examples from mass-media, such as books and television. Don't you miss out on the real world?
6. Choosing a path means that you must value it above everything else (i.e. exclusively). No-one can truly appreciate something unless they disregard the value of other paths.

1. Is it coincidence, human-made, or is there a higher power?
We could say that all of these three levels are true. Coincidence is, etymologically, the word for two events intersecting in some way (regardless of the interpretation). Likewise, humans can make many things happen, and have the power to affect reality in ways which other humans may not fully understand. The higher power explanation is a bit more thorny to expand upon, but it is best expressed by something entirely unexpected which crops up into consciousness (especially "good from bad"). Just be careful not to confuse something which has "more power" with somehing which is a "higher power", as there is an essential difference of attitude between the two.

2. Aren't you reading too much into things, and doesn't that impair your ability to enjoy them?
The most important thing in my life is my ability to enjoy it, so I am very careful not to damage that ability with my actions. For example, a true scientist spends his entire life analysing phenomena, and this makes him very happy. That's because he dedicates his life to something bigger than him: to always being in touch with that which has touched him. He doesn't use his mind to dissect things, but to free himself from his own preconceptions which cloud things over.
What is 'impaired' in this process is my ability to desire the using of things, which is a moral result (see my Voipici section). Using (exploiting) something is very limiting for the individual, whereas enjoyment is a sense of unrestricted expansion. "Reading too much into something" is a form of exploitation, so I avoid it as best I can.

3. Do you think it's possible for imagination to be misleading? Isn't it better to be realistic?
There is a confusion of terms where 'realism' is concerned. I am in favour of realism, but I disagree with the general misuse of the term (made by people who are too comfortable simply repeating what they have heard). What many call realism are in fact their own obsessions - which are hardly as 'all-encompassing' as 'realism' would need to be. Realism means that one is able to see past one's own limitations, and accepts that growth and evolution are present in all things (including one's own perceptions). Imagination is neither opposed to, nor denying realism. It's not possible to be realistic without using one's imagination, which is the ability to "think outside the box". As for it being "misleading", I believe this was just a fear set in place by those who wish to keep themselves and others from evolving. In reality, everything is a risk, not just imagination.

4. "I don't buy this a-causal mysticism thing. You forget about manipulation. That's the only reason things appear to 'synchronize'."
So... what do you propose to do?
If we spend our life in fear that we're being objectified, we are prevented from developing ourselves. This is a totally similar result to that of direct manipulation. Everyone is capable of both things, sincerity and manipulation. We each have our own dark side. By not knowing ourselves, we become as sheep and allow this dark side to manifest as if coming from others. But we are also part of the same levels which we fear: we have the potential to be the oppressors.
There is this trend now, to show one is 'awakened' by pointing out conspiracies everywhere and how not to trust anyone. This is good in principle (as when you wake up, you do see that a lot has been influencing you), but to take it seriously leads to serious error - demonizing what is merely the Unknown (including parts of yourself). You have to realize that everything you project on the external world, you have within you. But what would you like, or choose to have within? That will be the thing you cultivate, attracting more of the same.
A-causal mysticism, as you call it, creates an opening through which one is able to discern what makes us tick. So it isn't something that needs you to "buy it" - only a tool for grounding yourself in your own soil, without being "caused" (manipulated) by others. The latter is the normal state, but we don't have to fear this - just take it as an opportunity for learning.

5. You use a lot of examples from mass-media, such as books and television. Don't you miss out on the real world?
The "real" world? What is it, exactly? Here people make the same assumptions as they do about imagination. You know, just because something "appears" real doesn't mean it bears closer examination.
But to answer the question: I have often wondered why my path became such, but I have discovered many others who are very much into the same thing: giving a dynamic context to what is produced in terms of mass-media, while others are likewise giving a dynamic context to "real-world" events. So both are accepted/acceptable.
Art has always influenced Life in a profound way, even as Life has influenced Art. For me I guess the explanation lies in the fact that Art can sometimes reach people much faster, and on a deeper level. Where politicians and diplomats, and even formal education fail, we already have the cultural achievements of others close by - inspiring and influencing us everyday - connecting us to those we would have never been connected to. Not merely entertainment, things disseminated through mass-media represent philosophies - and philosophies effect real-life transformations (think of the ancient Greeks who lived by the myths they made, and for whom theatre was an emotional therapeutic). So it's an asset to be able to read these intentions correctly, which I have trained myself to do: read the dreams and aspirations of others, through what they produce artistically. This is connected with the a-causality discussed above..

6. Choosing a path means that you must value it above everything else (i.e. exclusively). No-one can truly appreciate something unless they disregard the value of other paths.
Not so... This is in relation to religion and any form of organized groups. It has everything to do with being made to feel special. I have come to understand that every great good and every great evil in the world are essentially inspired by the same Spirit of love, but the difference lies in how the recipient interpretes it, i.e. deals with that energy. This Spirit of love organizes one's own centre around it: a person begins to gravitate around it and it is the main reason behind all of one's (seemingly disparate and illogical) actions. But if you can see that everyone has their own special connection which inspires them personally, their own Principle by which their world is organized (just as you have yours), doesn't mean that you are "morally relativistic" or anything like that. .........