tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77860078977512767912012-02-19T14:37:10.412-08:00Me, on this planetAttempting to describe what I have learned and how I learned from the 'voice of the planet' after 1984. It's what some people experience as 'synchronistic events' but the 'voice aspect' isn't easy to detect because years of events reveal that attribute. It's an identification process.queridiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04676911474862685448noreply@blogger.comBlogger221100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7786007897751276791.post-43690098195230112742012-02-10T00:33:00.000-08:002012-02-13T12:15:05.321-08:00Learning to understand our 'now' as a cycle that's repeating in TimeFood for thought: Arnold Toynbee's book, Greek Thought contains selections from the writings of some Greek historians that he believed wrote about history honestly.
I want to present one selection:
The Burden of Rome, from Polybius Book VI, Chapter 57 because the content is specific and it reads as a description of our present global condition: "The disintegration and transformation queridiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04676911474862685448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7786007897751276791.post-90689916969075867182011-10-29T11:49:00.000-07:002011-11-28T19:40:00.462-08:00The 'Transcendent' functions in every day life
I've recently become more convinced that the 'transcendent function' itself is what creates so much disharmony everywhere and every when. That's because 'it' (the function itself) individualizes a persons' experiences to such a degree over a long span of time as to seem impossible to a scientific oriented mindset. Its my experience that the symptoms of certain mental 'disorders' can be queridiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04676911474862685448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7786007897751276791.post-62504371909210572282011-08-16T15:56:00.000-07:002011-08-18T12:04:22.333-07:00The Temper of our TimeI've not posted for a few weeks because so many things have happened that make me believe nothing can be said to describe or change certain aspects of our lives that really need to be described to be changed. It's easy to relate to H. G. Well's fatalistic essay in his last book, Mind at the End of its Tether . He was my age (79) when he wrote : "The end of everything we call life is close at queridiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04676911474862685448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7786007897751276791.post-87900870221381399372011-05-04T11:01:00.000-07:002011-05-23T10:58:20.873-07:00Synchronistic events are not 'visionary' experiences.The truth is sometimes literally 'funny'.
From my own experience I know they are every day events, that are 'like' particles in the processes of individuation, 'bits of information' in the context of F. David Peat's idea of an 'interactive force'.
The first 'coincidental' event that happened to me didn't produce a sense of awe, wonder, or curiosity. Let me describe it: I went to a friends queridiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04676911474862685448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7786007897751276791.post-39931758262282830662011-04-24T22:58:00.000-07:002011-05-01T09:32:17.851-07:00Easter Sunday 2011, I Read Matthew 13 and understand "illustrations'
Click to enlarge the image.These images show a reflection of a box that fascinated me after I noticed a third invisible compartment in it that was useless and invisible from some perspectives. It triggered a variety of object generated 'thought' about what is 'invisible' and why its visible in a reflection from the object. The use-less compartment in the box is visible in the upper image, left queridiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04676911474862685448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7786007897751276791.post-71798116343256097812011-02-28T15:29:00.000-08:002011-04-02T14:02:59.227-07:00The process of becoming twice born.The 'voice' begun to speak this way, in a surprising form: using words someone else had written in a book! While I read the book, one evening a selection from the book affected me 'like' a shock, literally I felt the words in my body. This particular selection was a few paragraphs that were literally abstracted from embeddedness in the book, it was highlighted by some mechanism of mind. Whichqueridiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04676911474862685448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7786007897751276791.post-84690645186426124052011-02-06T11:10:00.000-08:002011-02-10T19:44:57.049-08:00Starting with a point in the center.This is an interesting image, it begins with one whole and a point in it's center, successively divided by one line, then 3 lines to form a triangle, 4 lines make a square, five point star, etc. Every number except 2 lines has been used to create a form on a flat image of a circle. I just watched a news video that showed how the first real 3 dimensional image of our sun had been made been made. queridiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04676911474862685448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7786007897751276791.post-34387697716191944332010-12-26T19:03:00.000-08:002011-01-15T11:30:18.277-08:00A planet that 'speaks', and how it creates it's language When I chanced to read Men Who Have Walked With God by Sheldon Cheney in 1986, I was informed for the first time in my 54 years old mind that Socrates mentioned the 'god within that tells us about our universe' and that he didn't fear death so he willingly drank the hemlock. This was an utterly new idea to me as were the stories about the other men who had 'walked' and been talked to by God!queridiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04676911474862685448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7786007897751276791.post-72997230029325835602010-11-26T21:13:00.000-08:002010-11-26T21:30:30.383-08:00The Science of synchronicityThere's something about acquiring 'wisdom' that requires learning to get information from every day content, much as Freud and Jung 'discovered' there was meaning in 'every day pathology'; interpreting as an artist does, not always dreams but whatever is brought to one's attention in a certain way. There's a difference and sometimes that can be a shock! Literally. About language P. D. queridiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04676911474862685448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7786007897751276791.post-64255706149540809112010-11-07T12:31:00.000-08:002010-11-26T20:12:20.095-08:00A Sunday Morning in November, revised 11-15-2010"Somebody said that it couldn't be done, at least nobody ever has done it." Edgar Guest.
“It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening”—H. G. Wells, 24 January 1902, lecture given at queridiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04676911474862685448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7786007897751276791.post-27675113137423974852010-09-17T12:54:00.000-07:002010-11-16T19:30:24.944-08:00The 'organ' of self observation..updatedAristotle voiced the cultural tendancy of his Time when he said: "The feminine principle is the mother of the body but the mother of the spirit is male." Aeschylus play Eumenides, line 659 through line 666 repeats the belief:
The mother to the child that men call hers,
Is no true Life Begetter but a nurse
Of Live Seed. Tis the sower of the Seed
Alone begetteth. woman comes at need,
A stranger,queridiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04676911474862685448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7786007897751276791.post-82016520127866589592010-08-23T10:55:00.000-07:002010-08-23T12:09:13.694-07:00The Mind, it's own productions, and synchronicities.That's a point where both 'form' and 'content' unite precisely timed into an ongoing flow of events. I found "The Bond Of Power" by Joseph Chilton Pearce quite by chance sometime in 1985 as best I can date it . I read it when I wasn't very much interested in reading anything like it, because my head felt as though it would burst but I didn't understand what the author was writing about either: queridiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04676911474862685448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7786007897751276791.post-83774277591203221652010-08-12T15:36:00.000-07:002010-08-12T15:55:43.853-07:00Discovering the 'sequestered inner world', individually and uniquely guided."The human consciousness in addition to the function of the exploring of the outside world is burdened with the additional task of discovering the sequestered inner world." Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death, pp 171
The task requires an experience of the process itself, and that includes a way to identify the mechanisms of mind that produce the results. By that I mean the acceptable proof thatqueridiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04676911474862685448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7786007897751276791.post-4141566264650418292010-06-02T16:02:00.000-07:002011-01-13T11:16:46.522-08:00The Amazing Martin Gardner. revised 6-15-2010This was intended to be a short post because I wanted to write something about Martin Gardner, who has just left us. I didn't know anything about him when I spotted The Magic Numbers of Dr. Matrix in 1993 and bought it because it had some interesting puzzles on the jacket. As I read the book I experienced a bundle of the most unexplainable synchronizations between what he wrote as Dr. Matrix in queridiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04676911474862685448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7786007897751276791.post-13592046742470453772010-05-31T17:24:00.000-07:002010-08-17T00:02:11.254-07:00Thinking the unthinkable, amended 6-4-2010"The human consciousness in addition to the function of the exploring of the outside world is burdened with the additional task of discovering the sequestered inner world." Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death, pp 171
The purpose of this post is to describe an Event that happened about 22 years ago after I closed a book I'd just finished reading: The Lord of Thought, it's an old book by Emmettqueridiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04676911474862685448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7786007897751276791.post-17588758846197010312010-05-04T16:35:00.000-07:002010-05-05T16:18:24.573-07:00The Transcendental Function defined:Freud described it very well, but I didn't read his definition until a few months ago! It's about language. It creates information, it is very likely what F. David Peat described is an 'interactive force'. I have to be cautious about saying it 'is' anything specific, but it does create unique specificity in an individual life.
When I read Synchronicity, The Bridge Between Mind and Matter in queridiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04676911474862685448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7786007897751276791.post-87726343367587644532010-02-26T09:52:00.000-08:002010-05-04T14:58:24.585-07:00What happened in the past is determined by what is to happen in the future... The view of Alki Point in West Seattle, from 57th Ave. S. W. It's a triangle jutting into Puget Sound that was a cow pasture a hundred years ago. There's a small version of the Statue of Liberty on the beach at 61st Ave. S. W.
Does some part of our mind know the future? There have been a few incidents in my past when it looked as though some part of my mind knew the future. That's what queridiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04676911474862685448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7786007897751276791.post-47955570813347723962010-01-26T14:24:00.000-08:002010-04-24T22:41:40.286-07:00The invisibility of the ever present PresenceFrom page 238 of Jung’s Red Book, the newly published edition:"The frightfulness and cruelty of the world lay under wraps and in the depths of our hearts. If the spirit of the depths seizes you, you will feel the cruelty and cry out in torment. The spirit of the depths is pregnant with fire, ice and death. You are right to fear the spirit of the depths as he is full of horror.The spirit of the queridiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04676911474862685448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7786007897751276791.post-62104000771508406512010-01-17T16:20:00.000-08:002010-03-21T20:22:01.306-07:00The dark side of life is under the 'scope NOW!"C. G. Jung wrote: "Philemon and other figures of my fantasies brought home to me the crucial insight that there are things in the psyche which I do not produce but which produce themselves and have their own life." Memories, Dreams and Reflections I've hesitated to create a blog because I'm in a phase of life where I'm feeling that my life story will never be understood, even when I try to queridiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04676911474862685448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7786007897751276791.post-91254305318952036342009-10-24T21:36:00.000-07:002009-12-31T21:04:22.409-08:00Jung's Red Book is here.I'm not a Jungian exactly, but I do feel that he was an important viewing point on the events of his time. At this point in my life, I believe each of us is a living point of view. The idea came to me from experiences but I read it in a book, Mr. God This Is Anna. Every moment in her short life was connected to Mr. God, she was a viewing point for Mr.God, he was in her middle. She was always queridiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04676911474862685448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7786007897751276791.post-12529274534710354172009-09-27T17:40:00.000-07:002009-11-16T15:28:45.625-08:00The transcendental function and me at the library.It's hard to be in the local Jung library without taking several books home. I've got more books than I have space for already. I've been interested in C.G. Jung's ideas because he did establish the existence of the 'transcendental function' and I believe that function is what creates the processes of individuation. Even if he didn't define it very well, Joseph Campbell did say that function queridiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04676911474862685448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7786007897751276791.post-81350098305741636202009-09-06T20:10:00.000-07:002010-04-19T10:58:51.708-07:00A statement about my purpose in this blog:September 6, 2009This blog is about something hidden in every day life. I want to write about what I've learned about my mind, reality and time in my nearly 3/4 of a century on this planet and about what caused me to think about Time the way I do now. It's not the measure of movement in space, at least not merely physical space. It may seem a trival thing, but C. G. Jung wrote that the first halfqueridiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04676911474862685448noreply@blogger.com0